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Furniture SIG Meeting,TOPICS: Living Room Furniture Design and Build, Basic exercises to improve your woodworking skills, and making Finger(Box) Joints on your tablesaw.

Rich Towsley will demonstrate his method for making veneer inlays using a tilted table on a scroll saw and cutting the inner and outer pieces at the same time for an easy perfect fit. All RWS members are welcome, but if you aren‘t a regular and plan to attend in-person send an email to luthiersig@rochesterwoodworkers.org (it‘s not a huge shop!)

Ben Strano is the Editor of FineWoodworking.com. As a youngster, he became engrossed in music, a passion that brought him to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received a degree in music production and engineering. Soon after graduating, he began a career as a recording engineer in Nashville.

While expanding his woodworking and home-building skills, Ben also expanded his job skills, taking on video and audio projects for Lost Art Press, among others. He dove into web production and the social media landscape, connecting with all manner of woodworkers young and old.

In 2016, Ben and his family moved back to his native Connecticut. Since then, Ben has not only expanded and honed his woodworking skills, but also found a way to combine his two passions through lutherie.
He will tell us how he got into digital tools and incorporated them into his woodworking. He will show samples of things he has made using 3D printers as well as actually making some items during the demonstration using a 3D printer

A look at how the use of inexpensive and readily available digital tools can bring your woodworking to the next level. Focusing on the use of Fusion 360 and an affordable 3D printer, Ben will demonstrate how he makes all manner of jigs and tools that make his woodworking more accurate, efficient and most importantly, enjoyable.

David Gilbert is working to develop this Local Workshop. It is intended to provide the basic processes for the simplest finishing and to introduce several of the most common finishing processes and materials.

In this one-day course you‘ll learn some CNC fundamentals and get to design and build your own project.

This meeting will be at Mike Heiller‘s Shop (Homes by Design) in Webster . Mike has been in business for a long time and his work includes many large remodeling jobs. He builds his own custom cabinets in this shop.

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Vic is an editor of Canadian Woodworking Magazine where he has written many articles. He will discuss how to get the most from bench planes.

Vic will be demonstrating two different topics. In the morning he will show you how easy it is to make your own hand plane and in the afternoon he will hold a design class for non-designers.

This is a hands-on session where participants will explore various sharpening methods and understand how to achieve sharp irons and chisels.

A description will be included in an upcoming newsletter. If you have questions, please call Bill or Jack.

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Educated in Iowa and Illinois, I had a ten year career teaching
English and Drama at international schools in Taiwan, England and
Morocco. In 1985 my late wife and I relocated to Chestertown, New
York where I taught English at North Warren Central School from 1985
until retirement in 2002.
Shortly after retiring from teaching, I attended an Arts and Crafts
Fair in Ludlow, Vermont and saw the beautiful chip carvings of Wayne
Barton, a teacher at the school. I had always loved wood, appreciating
its finished beauty and appreciating the opportunity to learn to carve
it. Later I took Wayne’s class, Introductory Chip Carving, and was
“hooked!” During subsequent summers, I took several of Wayne’s
advanced classes and during the last few years have carved over two-
hundred pieces including breadboards, lamps, stools, geometric floral
and free form plaques, jewelry boxes and decorative plates. I have
become a chip carving teacher myself. In June, 2016, I taught an
introductory chip carving class at the Adirondack Folk School and will
teach several classes at AFS this year. I have also been invited to
teach chip carving at The View Art Center in Old Forge, NY, and at the
Fletcher Farms Arts and Crafts School in Ludlow, Vermont.
I reside in Chestertown and am a member of NorthCountryARTS in
Glens Falls and a former president of the Our Town Theatre Group in
North Creek. I am also a Board Member of the Adirondack Folk School
in Lake Luzerne. My carvings are for sale in the Adirondack Folk School gift shop, in the LARAC gift shop, Glens Falls, in the McKernon Gallery, Hudson Falls and in the Birds Of A Feather Gallery in Chestertown.

Dennis‘s workshop will introduce members to the traditional craft of chip carving-a type of woodcarving in which a small knife is used to incise decorative floral and geometric designs into basswood, butternut or walnut. The design is created by the removal of small pieces (chips) of the wood. In Northern and Eastern Europe, chip carving is an ancient traditional craft associated with rural life. Chip carved wooden plates, jewelry, keepsake boxes, trays, breadboards, furniture and other items can make wonderful gifts
and home decorations.
As the workshop starts, I will first show pictures of antique chip carving in several books I have, and then discuss some of my own chip carvings which I will bring with me. I will explain the design of the chip carving knife and contrast it with the design of the figure carving knife with which most members will be familiar. I will then demonstrate how to hold the chip carving knife and use it to cut straight lines, triangular shapes and curved lines. I will also demonstrate how to cut the Swiss style chip and how to cut the
Old World style chip. Members will have an opportunity to make these cuts with a variety of chip carving knives I will bring.
I will distribute my class syllabus to interested members so they can understand more about what they will learn in the class. Course catalogs for the Adirondack Folk School will be available also.

This is a hands-on session where participants will understand and utilize woodworking hand planes to flatten and finish a simulated tabletop.

Annual Carving Show

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Don is a retired Senior Furniture Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution. He will be presenting a number of conservation projects to explain his decision-making approach and the techniques subsequent to that.

The workshop will be split into two areas. In the morning Don will demonstrate some of the parquetry techniques and projects of his own. In the afternoon he will hold a restoration/conservation "clinic" with problems and projects the attendees can bring and show.

This is a half day interactive workshop to introduce the art of chair caning.

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Tour of the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo. Also Luncheon at the Garret House after the tour. More information will be coming on cost, menu, registration, etc....!

now design and build fine furniture on commission and speculation in my one-person shop in East Gloucester, Massachusetts. I am a member of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters, and was formerly part of Fort Point Cabinetmakers in Boston; in May 2011, I was awarded an Artist Fellowship in Crafts by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. I was invited to exhibit in the Smithsonian Craft Show in 2013, 2015, and 2016, and to participate in Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture, a group of events and exhibits organized by several partnering institutions. My furniture has been shown at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH; the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA; The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, MA; The Gallery at Somes Sound in Somesville, ME; the Messler Gallery in Rockport, ME; the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH; the Lamont Gallery in Exeter, NH; Pritam and Eames in East Hampton, NY; the Highlight Gallery in Mendocino, CA; the MacKeen Gallery in Boston, MA; and other galleries on the East Coast. It has been featured in the books With Wakened Hands and In the Modern Style, as well as Fine Woodworking, Home Furniture, Woodwork, and American Woodworker magazines. I currently teach at The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts, and have taught at Worcester Center for Crafts and the Boston Center for Adult Education in the past.

Cabinets, dressers, tables and desks are just a few of John Cameron‘s talents. He will demonstrate how some tables are so strong they don‘t need glue such as the Ming Table he built.

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Describe the speaker here ABOUT OUR NATIONAL MEETINGS: Part of the value of being a member of RWS is the opportunity to hear and see nationally known speakers. These individuals are from all over the country and have done presentations and/or have blogs, YouTube videos, etc. Meetings are usually held once a month between September and May. The presentation is held on Friday evening at St. John Fisher University Basil Hall. From 7-8 we gather, socialize and share projects. From 8-9 our speaker presents. Members and non-members can attend the Friday event which includes networking, displays of members’ works, silent auction items which are typically tools or accessories that members are looking to sell (often for VERY reasonable prices), access to our books and DVD library (members only), a raffle, a brief business meeting followed by the speaker presentation. Finally, the national speaker usually has a table for displaying their work and/or books. National speakers typically facilitate a workshop the next day which requires registration.