An Archive of the Club's Meetings and Other Events
Please join us as WPW member Regis Will demonstrates how a simple-to-make scraping tool, called a scratch-stock, can help you create short runs of unique molding, and add variety to your power- routed profiles. Regis will talk about acquiring materials for the tool, demonstrate how to make and prepare the scratch-stock,
Continue reading: Scratch-Stocks In Your Shop ...WPW member Bill James will present a program on how to incorporate high-quality knife hinges into your work. Through examples, drawings, and installation demonstration, Bill will explain how to plan for, select, and install both straight and L-shaped knife hinges by Brusso, arguably some of the best hinges available (why use a cheap knock-off if you’re going to put your valuable time into the project?).
Continue reading: Knife Hinges ...Mohamad and Alice Hassibi will be presenting the program on Saturday on Band Sawn Boxes. Alice designs and Mohamad fabricates the “boxes” which look nothing like a square or rectangular box. These are basically small sculptures which happen to have drawers. Mohamad will be doing a demonstration on a band saw and will show original designs as well as discuss problems and techniques involved in the box fabrication.
Continue reading: Band Sawn Boxes ...Our annual Member Show & Tell will be back to our usual October meeting. Bring your latest and greatest pieces to show at this month’s meeting.
WPW member Regis Will plugs in to discuss the viability of the track saw (as sold by Festool, Makita and Dewalt) as an alternative to the table saw, radial arm saw, panel saw and/or chop saw in the shop. Regis will discuss why he chose this system, and his opinion of the pros and cons versus the table saw.
Continue reading: Track Saws For the Shop ...Presented by WPW member Mohamad Hassibi. More details to come.
WPW member Dean Ridgeway has been a high school technology education teacher in the Kiski Area School District for over 20 years, specializing in manufacturing, and materials processing. A large part of the curriculum focuses on automation that exists in manufacturing, and students enrolled in class have opportunities to work with a CNC Lathe,
Continue reading: CNC Routing For The Home Shop ...WPW member Paul Ray is a hand-tool enthusiast who has a fondness for hand saws, among many other tools. Through discussion and demonstration, his program will take us through a basic primer on handsaws (Western style, sorry you Japanese-saw enthusiasts), and how to properly use them for some of the most common cuts in the shop.
Continue reading: Handsaws In The Shop – The Three Classes Of Cuts ...