Chair and Period Furniture SIG

The Chair and Period Furniture SIG meetings are at 7:00pm on the 1st Monday of each month. We discuss different aspects of period furniture and do different demos each month. Even if you do not plan to build period furniture the topics we cover can be applied to forms of woodworking, and all members are invited.

The January meeting will be held at Jim Altemus' house on January 9, 2012 (note change of date). The topic of discussion will be arm chairs. This is a follow up to last years meeting where Jim discussed his new dinning room chairs. Jim will talk about modifying thoses chairs to make an armchair.

For information on upcoming meetings or joining this SIG, contact Tim Talma via email at periodSIG@rochesterwoodworkers.org.

Schedule for the  2011-2012:

October 3rd: will will be meeting at Dan Holmes house to see his 1939 Chris-Craft barrel back boat reproduction.

The following topics dates are TBD.

  • Rule Joint
  • Trip to Rochester Museum to review thier furniture (tenative)
  • Clenching Nails
  • Tour of Joe Lorenzo's new shop and his workbench in progress
  • Designing an armchair
  • Dyeing wood
  • Saw Sharpening
  • Making bandings

The first meeting of the 2011-2012 season was at Tim Talma's shop. We discussed the topics for the upcoming season, as well as looked at the various projects we worked on this past summer. Dan Holmes showed pictures of his Chris Craft boat reproduction (come see it at Octobers meeting). And Tim showed of his mockup for a riving knife for his 60 year old delta table saw.

 

If you would like to attend the SIG meetings and/or recieve email reminders about the meetings please send an email to: periodSIG@rochesterwoodworkers.org.

The meetings are open to all current RWS members and members are invited to attend one or all of the meetings. If you are not an RWS member but want to find out what it's all about you may come to one meeting as a guest.

I do not post members addresses online, and will mail out the meeting address the day of the meeting. Our meetings are always at 7:00pm on the first Monday of the month unless noted.