February Meeting: Steve Altman on Box Making
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 8:50AM We started the meeting by welcoming two new visitors. Frank Vucolo, Simon Stark, and John Tamaino gave our final update for our booth at The Woodworking Show at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset on Feb. 19-21. They really have done an excellent job organizing the displays and demos at our booth. Here are some of the projects made by CJWA members that you will be able to see at the show:
Steve Altman gave an excellent presentation that was ostensibly about box making, but the talk wound up covering a wide and fascinating range of topics. Steve touched on design considerations in making a box, methods of working with smaller pieces of wood, and modifying tools to suit your purpose. He also showed how he cuts the lid for a box, examples made by famous box makers such as Peter Lloyd, Andrew Crawford, and Philip Weber, and even found time to run through a survey of glues.
The highlight of Steve’s talk was his run though of this jewelry case that he is in the process of finishing. The jewelry case is made of pommele sapele, spalted maple, and ebony, and features a slide out section to hold necklaces, and a hidden cash box specified by Steve’s wife.