Officers Founder Don Shutt 245-9724

President Terry Shears 637-6415

Co—V. P. Dean Ray 485-6933

Co—V.P. Chuck Morris 693-9435

Treasure: Frank Yanko 657-5328

Librarian: Walt Leimer 226-2915

Board: Wayne McCann 632-0258

Board Stew Hagerty 433-2634

Newsletter Dave Therkildsen 437-8694 Volume 22 Issue No 4 April 2017

Do you have any questions about the Three Rivers Woodworkers Club Call:

Terry Shears 637-6415

Coming Events

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The next meeting will be May 2nd, the 1st. Tuesday

of the month. The meeting will be held at 7:00pm

in the Club House, 16471 Lima Rd., Huntertown.

Mark your calendar now.

Next month Rodney Gruesbeck will be giving a demo on forging tools.

All of you engineers dust off your Metallurgy 101 text books and get

ready. In June (already?) is Stew Haggerty on Hand cut joinery.

Meeting Notes

We open the meeting with 41 people in attendance.

• As we leave winter if you see bad weather coming on the night of

our meetings please keep an eye on your emails for updates.

• The club library is expanding so check it out. There are now 83

books on carving alone.

• The Oak tree is continuing with their monthly classes . Check to

the web site to see what is scheduled. Many of these classes are

run by our members. https://www.oaktreesupplies.com/pages/classes

• The Oak Tree is having their Artisan Fair again this year. It is

scheduled for Sept. 9th. This has been very popular and the lim-

ited space fills up fast . If you want in you may want to sign up

early.

• Mill Supply customer appreciation day is May 10th—mark your

calendars.

Demonstrations

Demonstration So this month was the story of the 2 Terry’s on the 2 CNC’s. So, what

is a CNC? CNC is a acronym for Computer Numerical Control. Basi-

cally it is a machine where a router (trim router, etc.) is mounted above

a clamping table . The motion of the router / cutter is precisely con-

trolled in the X, Y and Z axes control software program. The finished

part is initially designed using a CAD (computer s aided design) pro-

gram. You can also scan an existing drawing or sketch The digitized

part is now converted by a CAM (computer aided manufacturing) pro-

gram. The CAM software program can then be used to generate a “G”

code which in turn controls the movement of the router / cutter to gener-

ate the desired finished part ….. While you watch (or, more importantly,

don’t watch).

Terry Shears has a large

CNC which he could not

bring to the meeting. The

workspace on this unit is

3 2 ” x 3 4 ”

Terry Jones brought in

his smaller portable CNC.

The workspace on this unit

is 12” X 12”, although the

part can be cut, moved

back and, after re-zeroing

the router, continue the

cut. Measure twice—cut

once.! This is small, light ,

“shop space friendly” and

comes complete with little

assembly required. Terry

Shears has substantial

hours in the assembly as

well as making several of the parts for his equipment.

Obliviously, it is in a dedicated footprint in his shop.

Here is the CNC in action.

This sign was cut during the

demo in just a few minutes!

Perfect font …. And spelling

every time—and no hands.

OK—you got me. I didn’t get a picture of the demo’ed

sign. Close enough for government work.

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Demonstration (cont.)

One use for the CNC equipment is the manufacturing of a sign, or sev-

eral signs or several identical signs (really identical signs). Or parts

for larger projects made by Terry Shears on

his equipment. Remember when making

cut out parts that you don’t

want them to fly loose

when they separate from

the base. You can design in

small tabs that hold the

piece tight and that can be

easily removed by hand

later.

One good example of the precision of this machine is the

cutouts shown here. Now that is a tight fit I would chal-

lenge anyone to accomplish by hand. And you can make

your “G” code using an existing drawing or sketch as seen

here.

Because there is a “z” axis control you can give your work a more 3-

dimensional look. You also have more versatility because you use a variety of

bits for different cuts.

All in all these things are “cool beans”. Everything you

need to get started can get expensive, but, once you are

comfortable with the equipment I’m sure you can visual-

ize many ways to get your investment back and then some. And

with a minimal investment of time since most of your projects can

run unattended. If you are interested in researching this farther

you can get a kit for Terry Shears’ equipment, the “Sidewinder

CNC” from Dave Gatton

http://www.cncsidewinder.com/dave-gatton-cnc-kits.html Dave can provide the plans or plans with a kit including

all of the wood pieces pre-cut. Terry Jones’ equipment is manufactured by Next Wave Automation and is the Pirahna

FX model. You can see what New Wave offers here http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/shop/ I was recently at a

trade show and saw a CNC that was more affordable. This is offered by Siencil Labs and you can see their product

here http://sienci.com/

Projects by Bill Sumney

Bill brings us a Unity Cross this month. This is a pro-

ject for his grand daughter’s wedding. The wood used

in wenge for the black and hard maple for the white.

There are 8 coats of lacquer for the finish.

Show & Tell Projects

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Show & Tell Projects

Projects by Chuck Morris

Walnut Night Lamp

This is a stained glass night light for one of

Chuck’s kids. It uses a 7 watt bulb. This

lamp was made out of walnut and glued

together with slow set epoxy glue. The

pieces were finished with gloss lacquer be-

fore they were assembled The beauty of

this is that anyone can make a stained glass

lamp with no stained glass experience. A

great source for stained glass is Hobby

Lobby.

Maple Night Lamp

This lamp is made for maple that was scrap

after the production of Bassoons. All of the

pieces are, finished and glued together. The

lamp is to represent an air traffic control

tower in a bedroom where the theme is an

airport. In this case Chuck soldered the

clear glass on top where the air traffic con-

trollers were glued. It I finished using gloss lacquer.

Projects by Alan Longroy

The sycamore box measures

6.5” X 12 1/4” x 3 1/2”. When

sycamore is quarter sawn it

yields a wood which has an in-

tense figure. See AL’s blog for

details AllanLon-

groy.wordpress.com This box

has a lid which has been

rounded slightly and inserted

between ends of American black walnut. The box has a shop-made walnut

plywood bottom and 5mm brass barrel hinges to hold the lid. The finish is

sprayed and hand rubbed precatalyzed lacquer, followed by waxing.

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Projects by Dennis McCann

So—Dennis has a problem with misplacing his exter-

nal hard drives. At least he used to have a problem

until he made these nifty boxes. These boxes are made

of walnut sandwiched between amborsia maple. The

finish is wipe on poly.

Just in case he still loses his exter-

nal hard drives and the terabytes of

data therein he also made a gun

box so he will be able to find his

pistol. Just kidding—the pistol is

for his daughter.

Projects by Curtis Rose

Curtis “The Mobius Man” brings us his “Wedding Ring XXII” . This is made of Tennessee black walnut. Again

the base is made from 10 year (or more) old slate Curtis savaged from a roof repair job in the area.

Show & Tell Projects

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Show & Tell Projects

Projects by Steve Moss

“Don’t put all of you eggs in one

Basket”, as Steve calls this work,

comes to us just in time for

Easter. The eggs are made of

poplar, cherry and walnut. They

are turned on the lathe and took

about 40 minutes each to make.

They have a lacquer finish.

Projects by John Gospodarek

Shadow Box and engravings

Projects by Stew Hagerty

Plant Stand

Show & Tell Projects

Projects by Dick Dettmer

This cherry step stool is a replica of one that

was in Thomas Jefferson’s library. Initially

Dick built one out of pine to get the angles

and measurements correct and make sure the

step ladder was balanced and sturdy. The

measurements on the base and the steps

worked out fine. Dick did not make the pine

model as a functional folding prototype and

thus it took many tries with re-measuring and

cutting of the steps before they would fold

into the base properly. The hinges for the

steps are 1/2” brass rods. The finish is 2 coast

of General Finishes gloss Armor Seal and one

coat of satin Armor Seal.

Projects by Herman Hammer

Herman had an ash burl given to him 2 years ago and it was too big for him to turn. He approached Fred Inman with his problem and

said he would like to get 2 bowls out of the burl but didn’t know how to lay it out. Fred had the right tool ——and the needed patience.

The 2 bowls displayed are from the same piece of burl—the smaller “scooped out” of the larger. Herman turned the smaller bowl and

Fred the larger. There are 4 coats of lacquer on both. Herman is returning the bowls to the person that gave him the burl ,,,, in much

better “shape” than when the burl was given.

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Michael Eber 260-484-8566

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Terry Shears

17006 Glacier Ridge

Ft. Wayne, IN 46845