Past Meetings

Date	Speaker	Topic
July 2008	Bill Hobson	Techniques for using milk paint.
June 2008	John DeLuca	Making a curved front chest with inlay.
May 2008	Lawrence Oliver	Artistic wood sculpting.
April 2008	Mike Sistek	How to make hand planes out of metal.
March 2008	Many	Bi-annual show and tell meeting
February 2008	Bill Hobson	Cancelled because of weather
January 2008	Don Snyder and Wayne Watson	How to make hand planes out of wood.
November 2007	Jeff Morgan	Starting a small production woodworking shop with sales through e-commerce.
October 2007	Norm Stoecker	Making wooden wind instruments -- recorders.
September 2007	Rich Orcutt	Making and Installing kitchen/bathroom cabinets.
August 2007	Ken Strong	Making wooden models of cars and trains.
July 2007	Eric LaVelle	Finding and restoring belt-driven woodworking machinery.
June 2007	Sid Furst	Making a full sized reproduction of an antique armoir from a small picture of the original.
May 2007	Robert Colegate	Making bandsawn boxes.
April 2007	Maggie Stokes	Making laminated wood projects. Maggie is an employee of Woodcraft Supply.
March 2007	Joseph Martellaro	Custom hand-made functional art. Joe is owner of The Dovetail Drawer in Cuba, MO.
February 2007	George Billings	Designing, making and selling rocking horses.
January 2007	Wayne Watson	Designing and making a workbench.
November 2006	David Brown, Bob Colegate, Bill Hobson, & Michael Olson	Gift items that take a weekend or so to make. Bob - fast clock. David - portable lap desk. Bill - hardwood frame for a 16" x 20" beveled glass mirror. Mike - presentation box for holiday food.
October 2006	Matt Laposa	Joinery options and methods learned from a Mark Adams class.
September 2006	Jim Hoeller	Making and using bent wood in projects.
September 2006		Annual picnic and field trip to Bill Cerny's Wood Mill and Kiln
August 2006	Mark Koritz	Experiences taking a woodworking class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Indiana.
July 2006	Vic Barr	Making sculptured boxes.
June 2006	Bill Cerny	Techniques and subtleties in milling and using quarter-sawn lumber.
May 2006	John DeMott	Design and making of upscale, custom furniture.
April 2006		Biannual Show and Tell
March 2006	Larry Mehmert	Making Shaker boxes.
February 2006	Mike Brewer	Building handcrafted wooden canoes and boats. Mike owns Little Dixie Boatworks in Clarksville, MO.
January 2006	Bill Hobson	Building a chest-of-drawers.
November 2005	Don Snyder	Decorative inlay techniques for lines, berries and fans.
October 2005	Dan Raney	Building a laminated bow (as in "bow and arrow" -- not violin bow). Dan works at Woodcraft Supply.
September 2005	John Heusler Steven Weiss	John, a Webster Groves Jeweler, on pricing, and marketing your woodwork. Steven, owner of Creve Coeur Camera, on photographing your woodwork.
September 2005		Annual picnic and field trip to Clarksville, MO
August 2005	Mike Sistek Bob Colegate	Sharpening hand saws. Sharpening carving tools.
July 2005	Bill and Julie Newberry	Makers of tables with spiral turned bases, kitchen accessories, and other wooden items.
June 2005	Boris Khechoyan	Master wood carver; furniture with marquetry and carving decoration.
May 2005	George Holsten	Demonstration of Festools
April 2005	George Holsten	Hand planes; maintenance, use, and purposes
March 2005	Jerry Hibdon	Question and answer session on woods, their properties and peculiarities
February 2005	Martin Goebel	Unusual furniture designs, interaction with clients, thought process of design
January 2005	Jim Beachler	Discussion of the business of making wooden items for children.
November 2004	John Buehrer	Basics of woodturning, a series of slides and a short spindle turning demo.
October 2004	Ron Happold	Testing and product de-bugging efforts on a brand new CNC router.
September 2004		Annual picnic and tour of the Museum of Transport
August 2004	Greg Kutz	Custom furniture building using wood and metal
July 2004	Ron Diefenbacher	The front-end process of custom woodworking
June 2004	Woodcraft	Demonstration of mortise and tenon hardware.
May 2004	Bob Colgate	Band Saw basics and more
April 2004	John and Marcia Whitt	Making and selling furniture by combining tree parts in their natural form to create functional artistic furniture mostly from willow trees
March 2004		Members Show and Tell
February 2004	Kathleen Weltzin	Sculptures made from driftwood and other natural items
January 2004	Tom & Pat Hooper	Making lead-free pewter products
November 2003	Cail Jennings	Quail Hollow Wood Arts, "scroll saw methods and projects"
October 2003	Mark Gezella	Making a workbench
September 2003		annual field trip: Wicks Organ manufacturing facility in Highland, IL.
August 2003	David Hentzel	making fine furniture
July 2003	Gary Twitchell	custom furniture design and construction
June 2003	Kent MacLean	Furniture and architectural pieces made by his company, Structural Arts
May 2003	Martin Goebel	A grandfather clock made by Martin appears in the February, 2003 issue of FWW magazine. He described making it and other fine furniture.
April 2003	Paul Frank	Front Porch Woodworking, "Custom Chests and Tables"
March 2003	Kimberly MacLean	Druids Woodworking, "Building doors and a business"
February 2003	Valeriy Parfenov	violin making
January 2003	Ed Bachman	building an oak rocking chair with a rattan seat
November 2002	Bob Colegate, Harold Engelke, Don Snyder	making gifts from wood
October 2002	Gary Moore	making Sam Maloff style rocking chairs
September 2002		tour of Hibdon Hardwoods and picnic
August 2002	Vic Barr	creating decorative boxes
July 2002	Harold Engelke	band sawn boxes
June 2002	Peter Tkach & Andrea Tkach	harpsichord construction and decoration based on historical models
May 2002	David Hicks	working with hand tools
April 2002	Bill Cerny	converting a tree into ready-for-use boards: harvesting, milling and drying.
February 2002	Mark Rickerson	woodworking safety equipment
January 2002	Elaine Bessen	wood growth
October 2001	Bob Colegate	designing and building jewelry boxes
September 2001	Jerry Lammers	building & flying rubber-band driven airplanes
August 2001	Steve White	ornamental woodturning
July 2001	Rich Weitzman	carving for furniture
June 2001	Mike Gililland	radial-arm saws
May 2001	Bill Hobson	making your bed
April 2001	Rick Thum	hammered dulcimer building
March 2001	Ken Bressler	preparation, gluing, and safe use of exotic woods
February 2001	Greg Dix	safe use of radial-arm and table saws
November 2000	Joseph Eultgen	chairs made for the Pope on his visit to St. Louis (Photos of the chairs are in Fine Woodworking Mag., p.30, Dec. 1999.)
September 2000	guild members	sawdust collection systems