CJWA Meeting June 12th at 7:00 PM

 For June, we will be doing the traditional members exhibition. For new members, everyone is invited to bring in a project you’ve recently completed or completed in the past but haven’t shared with the group. We set up tables to display the projects and everyone takes turns saying a few words about what you brought in. Tag your work with your name, so when everyone is walking around the members will know who brought in the projects.

The more pieces displayed the better, which is why this notice is being sent out so early. We are starting to put together the Fall meeting schedule already. Some of our best meetings have been seeing what fellow members are working on or recently completed. Please consider sharing your work with the group. Let Bob or I know and we can help you with the presentation.

CJWA Meeting May 8, 2019 7PM

Glass of wine or a cup of coffee?  We will have two of our members presenting builds at this meeting.  Matt Greco will show us his plan and construction of a beverage bar that he built.  Marc Gaertner will present his new coffee table that he built, and some of the challenges of joinery in a curvilinear form.  In addition to our projects, Robert Hemsen will share with us some pics of his experience at the Michener Museum to see the George Nakashima exhibit.

Handplane Seminar May 18 9AM -12 Noon $20

Our next educational seminar will be held at The Wood Joint School in Tinton Falls, NJ on Saturday, May 18, from 9-12AM.  The address of the school is 3300 Shafto Road, Unit C, Tinton Falls, NJ.  We welcome all members to participate;  from new in hand plane use to experienced, all can learn something.  Bring your handplane(s) with you, specifically a bench or smoother plane, (and any sharpening stones that you may have), and if you don’t own a hand plane, we can supply something for you to try. If you have a small piece of wood 1-2 feet long, that you would like to practice on, bring it.  I will bring some different woods from my stash for all to try out.   We will learn sharpening and tune up of the hand plane, proper use of this important tool, and finally we will hand plane two or more surfaces flat and square.  Our lead intructor will be Brian Holcombe.  Also we are skiing for a $20 donation for the use of the building.  For planing and space puposes, please notify Bob Emmons (bob-emmons@comcast.net) your intentions on attending as soon as possible.

Update on Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 10:03PM by Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

Here are some photos of the hand plane seminar.  It was a great sucess.  We had a full house and learned a great deal from our instructor Brian Holman.  

Update on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:55AM by Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

Update on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:55AM by Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

Update on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:57AM by Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

CJWA Meeting April 10, 2019

The April meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 10th. We will be hosting a returning guess Speaker, Designer & Craftsman Glen Guarino of Guarino Furniture Designs in Cedar Grove, NJ.
Glen will be showing us some of his tables, talking about the unique sculptural designs, their construction processes and the finishes of each. He will also be doing some bench work demonstrating hand tools used in the shaping process.

For a glimpse into some of Glen’s work check out his web site:
https://guarinofurnituredesigns.com/

 

CJWA meeting March 2019

For the March 13th meeting, we will have three talented club members presenting.

Rich Hyers will do a presentation of a Kitchen Island he built.

Steve Altman will do a brief presentation of a programmable router he recently bought, showing it capabilities.

Brian Holcombe will do a presentation on sharpening and using hand planes. Based on his recent project pictured in Fine Woodworking magazine he built using only hand tool, this will be a very informative demonstration.