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Next meeting – Monday, September 11th – 7PM at RIT. Room 07-2470 in our regular meeting hall. (Second Monday date change because of the Labor Day Holiday.) We will have the same room for the upcoming meetings in October (10/2) and November (11/6).
This month’s feature presentation will be made by Jim Hilburger from the Western NY Woodturners. He will present and demonstrate "vacuum chucks". Jim will cover: "What is a vacuum chucking system? Why is a vacuum chucking system desirable? What are the things that you can do with it? How would you have to do it without vacuum? How to make a vacuum chuck system. What and where can you get/make the pieces? What are some of the problems with vacuum systems? What are the "tricks" of using a system? What are the "mistakes" he has seen or made? Other tips he has regarding vacuum systems." Be there early to get a good seat. It promises to be a great show.
Anchor Seal at $7 a gallon delivered. We have made arrangements to do a group buy of Anchor Seal. If you are interested, please sign up and pay at this month’s meeting. It is $7 a gallon (compared to $12.95 PLUS shipping). We will bring it to the October meeting for parking lot pickup after the meeting. Please bring the correct change for the quantity that you want.
Tagua nuts are almost gone. We have 3 bags left. Five bucks will get you a bag with 7 jumbo tagua nuts. Contact or see Ed DeMay if you are interested before they are gone.
Last meeting Ted Sears passed on the following information. His friend, Marc Hessler, is an Arborist. Marc has or has access to a wide variety of woods at reasonable prices. If you are interested, contact Marc at 293-3897.
Saturday sessions for Beginners. The BOD has planned to host a Saturday session for beginners. It will be a hands on turning session with an instructor for every 2 (or 3) students. The intention is to get the beginners to "see and do" with respect to tool sharpening, wood mounting, and basic tool usage. It will be held at RIT in the near future. Date to be announced based on instructors availability. The fee will be $10 per person. (The instructors are donating their time and lathes so the fees are a donation to the club.) We will have a sign up sheet and the class limit is 10 people. It is first come, first serve. Get your names and money to Ed DeMay (394-5672 edemay@rochester.rr.com). When your money is in, you own the spot. If the class is not held for any reason, you will be refunded your money. Subsequent classes may be held if there is sufficient need.
PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED! – We need a photographer with a digital camera to take
pictures of the monthly meetings and the turnings (or other things) brought in.
The photos will be used for the FLW website. We want general interest group
shots, photos of the guest speaker(s), and the Show and Tell items, etc. Anyone
equipped and willing to do this, please contact Kurt Hertzog (359-2235
khertzog@rochester.rr.com).
As a benefit to the members, we can email them the digital photos of their work.
The plan is to put the FLW newsletter on the web. Members will get an email
notifying them that the new newsletter is there for their viewing. This will
save them time getting the downloads and opening files. We also will be able to
include photos, plans, handouts, etc. in the newsletter. The newsletters will be
archived there for future reference.
Survey Responses – The surveys have been returned, collated, and summarized. There are 38 members in the SIG. We mailed out 36 surveys (I couldn’t find mailing addresses for two) on 8/3/00 with the survey and a SASE for return. As of today (8/27/00) nineteen surveys have been returned. The results sheet is included. It is the original survey with some space made to include the results and the comments made.
The crib sheet is as follows. Next to each choice for every question is the number of responses to that answer out of the total number of responses. For example, (2/19) indicates that 2 people out of the 19 total responses selected that answer. There is a "No ANS" (no answer) column. The response count there indicates the number of surveys that had no answer for that question. Areas that have a count only, without a divisor, are areas where the respondent could select any number of answers. Any of the items in the fill-in areas, in parenthesis, indicate the write-in responses from the surveys, regardless of their selected answer. Each individual set of parenthesis has the write in response from a different survey.
Take a look at the survey results tabulation and see what the bulk of the SIG thinks. By and large, the membership is happy with the meeting place, time, content, and direction we are going. Suggestions made for changes have been noted and in many cases implemented or planned to be implemented. Thanks to all those who took the time to complete and return the survey. If you have any questions regarding the survey, it’s distribution, or tabulation, contact Kurt Hertzog.
KTH/kth
8/27/00
BOD Meeting Minutes – August 16th, 2000 – Doug Crittenden’s house
Doug Crittenden called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm. Ward Donahue was absent due to a previous commitment.
The board discussed the activity to contact past members who haven’t renewed their membership. It is in the spirit of rekindling old affiliations as well as understanding the reasons for not renewing. Ed DeMay will contact some of the people from years past.
Doug has a neighbor who has an in at the company that produces Anchor Seal. For those unfamiliar with Anchor
Seal, it is a milky appearing chemical that is "painted" on freshly cut timber to prevent it from drying too quickly and causing checks and splits. It works as advertised and lets the wood dry slowly as well as allowing you to cut green wood to use and then seal up the fresh cut. It normally sells for $12.95 a gallon plus the shipping charges. We will get a quantity for the members for $7 per gallon. At the next meeting, we will take orders and payment for delivery at the following meeting. It’s a great price and will be delivered to the parking lot at RIT so make your plans now. Proper change would be appreciated.
Doug will contact the room assignment person at RIT. We are trying to get the same room, month after month, on the second floor if possible. We need it for this month so Doug will get in touch ASAP.
As previously planned, we will continue to feature demos at the meeting of the various woodturning tools. Last month’s presentation on the roughing gouge went very well. The pecking order for upcoming sessions is the scraper, the bowl gouge, and then the skew. We will try to mix the presentations so we cater to all levels of the membership, i.e. beginners, intermediate, and advanced, so we can keep them all coming back. We have lined up a presentation on vacuum chucks for the September meeting that should be of interest to all. The October meeting will be microwave drying and the November meeting will be the Scraper tool demo. Potential future speakers will be tool manufacturers, segmented bowl construction, and Sorby tool factory demos.
The board is discussing having a Saturday beginner’s session. It would be a hands on, using your own tools, teaching session with a 1 to 2 or 1 to 3 teacher /lathe to student ratio. The time and cost is undecided but it will be a token fee. It will probably be held at RIT and use mini lathes. The course will cover sharpening of tools and using each of the basic tools. The sessions will also cover various accessories and safety. The first class will be limited to 10 students on a first come, first serve basis. If we have sufficient interest, subsequent sessions will be planned and scheduled.
The RWS website is up and running and we need to have a FLW interface to the website. That responsibility will temporarily fall to Doug Crittenden but ultimately be the Vice President’s job. The requirements will be to provide a monthly meeting write up and other input (photos, drawings, ?) to the RWS webmaster to help create and populate the FLW portion of the RWS website. It will be a communications tool as well as a recruiting tool for the group.
The current BOD will do a write up of their respective jobs. It will include the responsibilities, actual tasks, and time required each month. This short write up will be published in the newsletter to let the membership know what they would be getting into when they volunteer for a BOD job. Hopefully, this will show the rank and file that they are more than capable of fulfilling any of these jobs and that the time and effort required is nominal. The goal is to completely replace the existing board with new members. It will bring fresh ideas and let some of the others pitch in and do some of the work.
We will start circulating a sign in sheet at the meetings. It will serve several purposes. It will be an attendance log so we can begin to understand the attendance patterns. It will also allow the members to check and correct their mailing and email information. We can also capture the necessary information from the visitors.
The BOD then reviewed the survey results. As of the BOD meeting, 19 surveys had been returned. Kurt had collated them and provided the board with photocopies of the individual responses along with a compilation of results. The compilation sheet will be included with this month’s newsletter. By and large, the membership is content with the meeting location, time, and content. There were many suggestions as to meeting content. Some of those ideas are underway and some will be added. The results of the survey were pleasing in that the all but one was satisfied with where we are going and the way we are going about it. More info in the newsletter.
Meeting adjourned at 9pm.
KTH/kth
8/24/00
Minutes of the regular meeting at RIT, Monday August 7, 2000 (provided by Doug Crittenden)
Kurt - here's what happened at meeting started at 7:00 PM
- secty report- N/A
- treas. report - 38 members and ~ $500.00 in treas.
- no old business
- welcome 1st time visitors Rob Michalek [ who came with Ted Sears ] and John
O'Brien from the RWS.
- discussion of Ed Lehmans generous offer of turning wood
- discussed the member surveys send out to all members [ be on the lookout for
them and pls respond soon. Ted Sears and Jim Echner said they didn't get theirs.
said we would ck it out.
- discussed auction or raffle or whatever for the items donated to our SIG that
didn't sell and looking for ideas from members. didn't get any and referred it to
the next BOD meeting for them to decide what to do.
- challenge project review. 4 or 5 people participated and had a few problems
with the material cracking. all came out well especially Ed Demay's which was an
ornament with a tagua nut bowl with some brown bark still on it.
- no decision on the challenge project for next month . will discuss at BOD
meeting.
- roughing gouge demo. lots of interest and participation, especially from the
newer turners. they were guided by Ed Demay, Jim Echner and Dave Chinnici.
all seemed to enjoy and were looking forward to the whole series on the
different tools etc.
- finished at 9:30 PM
fill in sect'y, Doug Crittenden
DC/dc
8/8/00
Prior to the upcoming elections, we have put together an explanation of the various board positions, by the people in the office. We hope to encourage other members of the organization to step forward for these positions, showing that the positions don’t require any special capabilities or an enormous amount of time. The goal is to hand the reins over to a new set of directors each year, sharing the burden and bringing in new energies and ideas.
The President’s Function provided by Doug Crittenden
Per our By-Laws the President officially will be Chairman of the Board of Directors, see that all records are in order, sign checks [the good part], appoint committees and run the meeting in an orderly fashion. The president is basically an overseer to keep things running smoothly. Usually it takes about 2 hours per week to do the job. It also takes a person who wants this organization to flourish and grow.
The Vice President’s Function provided by Kurt Hertzog
We currently do not have a Vice President but I wrote up something to give potential newcomers a feel for the requirements. The Vice President’s job is a "helper job" for the President and the organization. The VP is the liaison with the AAW. That part of the job should take a few hours total for the entire year. The current BOD has decided to make the VP responsible for the RWS website input. As such, the VP would need to "coordinate (get it done or do it)" the input to the RWS Webmaster. This would include photos of the meetings and projects, meeting write-up, special announcements, etc. It is assumed that the next President will continue this assignment for the incoming VP. The estimated time for that function could range from an hour a month to several depending on the efficiency and level of effort put forth. Another requirement of the VP is to attend the monthly BOD’s meeting. The meeting is held on a rotational hosting basis so it involves hosting the meeting approximately 3 times a year and traveling to and from other locations on the other occasions. The BOD meeting usually lasts about 2 hours with an hour or less total transit time.
The Treasurer’s Function - not available
The Secretary’s Function provided by Kurt Hertzog
The Secretary’s function is to handle the correspondence of the organization. The time requirement for BOD meetings etc is the same as the other BODs. Taking minutes of the BOD and regular meeting doesn’t add any time at the meeting but does detract somewhat from the attention available as an interested attendee. Typing and proofing the minutes for posterity and publication takes an hour to two hours, depending on the activities of the month.
The largest time requirement is the newsletter. The time I spend doing the newsletter usually runs 10 hours per month. This includes generating the material, creating the NL, printing the masters, photocopying the quantity required, generating (and maintaining the mailing list) the mailing labels, assembling the newsletter, stamping and labeling the newsletter, and mailing. The electronic edition is essentially the same as the hardcopy edition so creating and sending of the e version is a minor undertaking after the hardcopy edition had been created, taking only a half hour or so. I have all of the equipment required to do the job at home so I can work on the newsletter, as convenient. Others might not have the luxury of a computer, laser printer, and photocopier at home so they might need to make other arrangements. The time required to do the newsletter is a matter of personal choice. The next secretary might decide to do an abbreviated one-page version and / or have others prepare the newsletter. This could dramatically reduce the amount of time required. There is no requirement to do a newsletter, only to notify the members of the upcoming meeting. Minutes of the regular and BOD meeting could be available at the regular meetings for those interested. I am now putting the e version on the web, adding a bit to the time needed. In the future, the web version might be the only newsletter. I leave those decisions to the successors.
The Activities Director’s Function provided by Ward Donahue
The duties of the Activities Director are be a member of the board, be responsible for the planning and execution of the program portion of the monthly club meeting, and be responsible for the planning and execution of any special events of the organization.
As Activities Director you will enjoy having input into the club's program without spending huge amounts of time. The board meeting takes about two hours per month, at which time we talk about the program and direction the club should be taking. In addition to basic business the long and short-range goals are set and the specific activity for the next club meeting. Future meetings are also tentativly planned. All board members pitch in, thus making light work of the job.
During the month you need to make a phone call or two to make sure everything is lined up and in order. This may take no more than half an hour per month. This club pretty much runs itself and everyone seems to pitch in when ever any help is needed. Being on the board is a one-year job from January to December so everyone can get some input into our club and be part of the program. The time spent is less than three hours per month so when everyone pitches in it's light work for everyone. When you take this responsibility you will not put in a lot of time but you will enjoy being involved.
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