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The Next Meeting is 7 pm, July 30, 2008
Al Bahr Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd. Behind the Hampton Inn
Program: SHELLAC
APPLICATION AND FINISHING TECHNIQUES
Speaker: Vijay Velji
SDFWA sponsor Vijay Velji started woodworking as a teenager in the bustling city of Calcutta, India. His father designed most of the furniture for his house, and had it made by a local carpenter,
Vijay many spent hours at the carpenter's shop observing and learning to use hand tools and he grew up around shellac-finished teak furniture.
He came to this country over twenty years ago, and started seriously making furniture in his spare time. (At his day job, he's an Electrical Engineer)
Initially, he used nitrocellulose lacquer and polyurethane as finishes, but ultimately his love for shellac prevailed, and he has finished almost all of the furniture he has designed and built for his San Diego home with this all-around, flexible material.
He won Honorable Mention for his carved mirror frame and 2nd. Place novice award for the matching dresser at this year's Design in Wood show. Photos of both are viewable in the Gallery section of his website www.shellacfinishes.biz
Both prize-winning pieces are back home in daily use by his family, destined to become family heirlooms.
Vijay will demonstrate shellac application
and finishing techniques the meeting.
Won't you come and join us for this informative program.
Come and joins us for this interesting
program.
See you at the meeting!
Ed White
Program Chair
Car Pool
Any member who would like to car
pool to SDFWA meetings, please list your name, phone number and zip code with
Al De Vries (in back of meeting room). It is understood and agreed that this
information will be given only and exclusively to SDFWA MEMBERS. You can reach
Al a 619-440-6598 or alfreddev@hotmail.com
Raffle 
Great Prizes
YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!
Special thanks to Jack Boyd and Porter Cable from Tool Depot, who has come through
again with some great discounts and prizes for our raffle. Be sure and visit
these fine stores and give them your thanks for supporting The SDFWA. Buy lots
of tickets as all of the money goes to acquiring bigger and better prizes.
Here is the list of July prizes:
1. 5 drawer rolling tool chest.
2. 10" sliding compound miter saw.
3. Router and router table combination.
4. An Aussie wooden Jack Plane.. Real neat item.
5. 2 gal wet or dry Shop Vac.
6. Makita 71/4" circular
saw.. Mod #574 0MB
7. Bosch Saber Saw.. Mod # 1587AVSK
8. Special gift from Porter Cable & Tool Depot.
9. * Used early Stanley # 4 Jack plane + a 1/2"corded Drill
10. The bucket of goodies for your shop.
*
A special gift from the Estate of Oddie Brand.
Chuck Anderson, Raffle Chairman,
chucker@san.rr.com or 858 273 3055
Be sure to show your appreciation
to these and the rest of our sponsors by visiting their stores and by thanking
them for their support. Their names and locations are listed elsewhere in this
newsletter and on the SDFWA website.
REMEMBER! That money
collected for the raffle goes toward the purchase of bigger and better prizes
next meeting!!!
Ticket Sales
start at 6:30, and only at the meeting. Come early and support this fun event.
Every
penny supports the purchase of prizes… More support means more and better
prizes. Compare that
to the odds on any other raffle you know of.
Chuck Anderson: Raffle Chair
chucker@san.rr.com or 858 273 3055
