July General Meeting
Time and Date: 10:00 am Saturday July 13th 2024
Location: Al Bahr Shrine
5440 Kearny Mesa Rd, San Diego, CA 92111
(click for map)
- Brag Table – Bring in a project to share
- Swap Table – Buy, Sell, Trade
- Experts Table – Bring in your questions
- Education Table – Check out the latest classes
Introduction:
Joe Fleming is a full-time engineer and part-time woodworker and woodturner. He has been an amateur woodworker for over 45 years and an amateur woodturner for more than 20 years. His skills are primarily self-taught with assists from various class work, from woodworking publications, and through participation in various woodworking clubs. He has studied with many noted wood artists including, Allan Batty, Stuart Batty, Christian Burchard, Jimmy Clewes, Don Derry, Michael Hosaluk, John Jordan, Binh Pho, Richard Raffan, Merryll Saylan, and Susan Working. He gives credit to his dad for instilling a passion for hand-made wood items.
While Joe is a jack of all woodworking trades, he considers himself to be, primarily, a woodturner. He completes artistic pieces as well as taking a number of woodworking commissions every year. Recent work includes a custom walking cane, a chess set, and assorted (turned) gift boxes.
Joe is also a Grex airbrush dealer including airbrushes, accessories, paint and some Grex air tools. He also is a SaburrTooth carving dealer. In addition to retail sales, he offers in-person and on-line classes and demonstrations for airbrushing and woodturning.
SDFWA Presentation:
Joe will be explaining airbrush equipment, and will be demonstrating basic airbrush skills. The demonstration will include:
• Show some examples of airbrushed wood projects.
• Explain the benefits of airbrushing over other finishing techniques.
• What equipment you need for airbrushing and what equipment is nice-to-have.
• Explain the various materials you can spray.
• Explain wood preparation for airbrushing (sanding, filling, bleaching).
• Demonstrate some basic airbrushing skills (close-quarter and wide dispersal drills).
• Explain and/or demonstrate some practical examples of airbrushing for woodworkers (shading, coloring, tinting, highlighting grain, top coat application).
• A chance to try out an airbrush for yourself. Come early to try before the meeting starts.
Joe's Artistic Statement:
Woodworking provides me with an outlet for my creativity. I enjoy finding a piece of wood, envisioning what it can become, and then transforming it into a beautiful art or craft piece. I make both art pieces and functional pieces, but I always strive for beauty. My woodturning consists all types of turning disciplines including bowls, hollow forms, platters, vases, boxes and furniture components. I use a variety of wood species in my work including local urban forested woods like eucalyptus, and other reclaimed wood. I also use wood from certified forestry projects in the Pacific Northwest, Mexico and Australia.
Memberships:
• The San Diego Woodturners
• The San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association
• American Association of Woodturners
You can find more information about Joe Fleming and his work at www.airbrushingwood.com
May General Meeting
Time and Date: 10:00 am Saturday May 4th 2024
Location: Al Bahr Shrine
5440 Kearny Mesa Rd, San Diego, CA 92111
(click for map)
- Brag Table – Bring in a project to share
- Swap Table – Buy, Sell, Trade
- Experts Table – Bring in your questions
- Education Table – Check out the latest classes
- Fair Sign Up – Volunteer at the Fair
Speaker: MIRA NAKASHIMA
A VERY SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT !! You won’t want to miss this !!
The May General meeting has been moved to Saturday, May 4th. The time and location will remain the same
SDFWA is extremely please to announce that our speaker for the this general meeting will be MIRA NAKASHIMA. Below is the link to their website as well as excerpts.
https://nakashimawoodworkers.com
George Nakashima began his furniture business as a reactionary movement against the practice of twentieth century “modern” architecture, design, and art. Through his work he called for a reclamation of the the philosophy of earlier historical periods. With a solid background in architectural history and design, engineering, and building practice, George turned towards a simpler life in which direct contact with materials, tools, and clients and craftsmen were more important than the imposed egoism of the modern design world.
Mira Nakashima’s work grows from her father’s philosophical legacy and expresses her own profound admiration for nature and having livid in close contact with the wood that defines both her artistry and her daily experience. In her designs, Mira captures the form and spirit of the wood which is capable of transmitting its sensitivity, peace, and harmony into those who use it.
January Meeting is Canceled
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Speaker Joe Fleming
Introduction:
Joe Fleming is a full-time engineer and part-time woodworker and woodturner. He has been an amateur woodworker for over 45 years and an amateur woodturner for more than 20 years. His skills are primarily self-taught with assists from various class work, from woodworking publications, and through participation in various woodworking clubs. He has studied with many noted wood artists including, Allan Batty, Stuart Batty, Christian Burchard, Jimmy Clewes, Don Derry, Michael Hosaluk, John Jordan, Binh Pho, Richard Raffan, Merryll Saylan, and Susan Working. He gives credit to his dad for instilling a passion for hand-made wood items.
While Joe is a jack of all woodworking trades, he considers himself to be, primarily, a woodturner. He completes artistic pieces as well as taking a number of woodworking commissions every year. Recent work includes a custom walking cane, a chess set, and assorted (turned) gift boxes.
Joe is also a Grex airbrush dealer including airbrushes, accessories, paint and some Grex air tools. He also is a SaburrTooth carving dealer. In addition to retail sales, he offers in-person and on-line classes and demonstrations for airbrushing and woodturning.
SDFWA Presentation:
Joe will be explaining airbrush equipment, and will be demonstrating basic airbrush skills. The demonstration will include:
• Show some examples of airbrushed wood projects.
• Explain the benefits of airbrushing over other finishing techniques.
• What equipment you need for airbrushing and what equipment is nice-to-have.
• Explain the various materials you can spray.
• Explain wood preparation for airbrushing (sanding, filling, bleaching).
• Demonstrate some basic airbrushing skills (close-quarter and wide dispersal drills).
• Explain and/or demonstrate some practical examples of airbrushing for woodworkers (shading, coloring, tinting, highlighting grain, top coat application).
• A chance to try out an airbrush for yourself. Come early to try before the meeting starts.
Joe's Artistic Statement:
Woodworking provides me with an outlet for my creativity. I enjoy finding a piece of wood, envisioning what it can become, and then transforming it into a beautiful art or craft piece. I make both art pieces and functional pieces, but I always strive for beauty. My woodturning consists all types of turning disciplines including bowls, hollow forms, platters, vases, boxes and furniture components. I use a variety of wood species in my work including local urban forested woods like eucalyptus, and other reclaimed wood. I also use wood from certified forestry projects in the Pacific Northwest, Mexico and Australia.
Memberships:
• The San Diego Woodturners
• The San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association
• American Association of Woodturners
You can find more information about Joe Fleming and his work at www.airbrushingwood.com
Air Brushing Finishes and Coloring
Past Meetings
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Program
Speaker Andy Goldman
I was raised in the Northeast, and was transferred to Orange County, California in 1976. I held several sales jobs bordering on woodworking and when I started my own sales agency in 1984, I concentrated on Woodworking Equipment and Supplies until retiring in December 2019.
About 5 years ago, I met Wayne Miller, President of the Segmented Woodturner’s Chapter of the AAW. He got me interested in Segmented Turning so I began to pursue Open Segmented Turning using my old turning tools. I spent a lot of time watching videos on the Internet on Segmented Turning and developed my own style. The bowls below are an example of my work.
I am proud that I have been able to donate all proceeds from the sales of my Open Segmented Bowls to Charities. Those donations have topped $55,000.
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Program
Del Cover, an early member of the club as been a professional woodworker for almost 40 years. He has shown many pieces for the 25 first years of DIW and currently is a judge. One of his early pieces was a viking ship hammock that was on the cover of Fine Wood working. For 25 years, he set up the SDFWA programs for the general meetings. His initial woodworking involved building boats and later working on Americas cup teams. He then started building furniture with an emphasis on “art furniture”. For 7 years he worked with Niki de St Phalle building over 200 pieces of artwork including modeling for the Queen Califia Garden in Escondido. Currently he is building cabinets, doors, furniture with a lot of specialty items for churches.
Check out Del's work here.
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Program
We are doing something a little different for this General Meeting. In lieu of a guest speaker there will be 5 demonstration stations. There will be a 15 minute demonstration at each station, then you proceed to the next.
The stations are:
1. Bob Stevenson – Hammer Veneering
2, Mary Russo – Lathe demo
3. Jeff Bratt – Shaper Origin
4. Paul Duffield – Hand Tools
5, Dana Chapin – Festool Domino
Past Meetings
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Guest Speaker: Paul Henry
Paul opened his first wood shop in Bicentennial Boston, 1976, and has worked in the furniture world ever since. For more than 40 years he has maintained the same studio in Carlsbad Village specializing in custom bespoke furniture and cabinetry, one of a kind work for galleries and museums, and antique repair and restoration. For 20 years he taught Furniture Design and History at Palomar College, and he is now a co-owner of Phes Gallery showing fine art and craft. You can see more examples of his work here.
Program
He will be talking about “Antiques and the Stories That Furniture Can Tell”.
I have always been fascinated with old furniture and I find that with a bit of careful observation we can reconstruct the history of use, abuse, and alteration as well as the marks – and mistakes – of the original maker. I will present a series of a dozen or so examples and, following the evidence, try to reconstruct the story of how and why it came to look the way it does today.
Time and date: 7 pm, Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Guest Speaker: Brian Murphy
Brian is recognized as a leader in the Art’s and Crafts design discipline. His furniture is in galleries in Muncy, Pennsylvania and throughout the country. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work and continues to design in a bold new style. In 2008 he was awarded First Honorable Mention in the Custom Working Business Magazine, a National Contest for residential furniture. In 2012 and 2015 he was among the top 3 in the same national contest. In 2017 he placed in residential furniture for a contest sponsored by Woodworking Network National. He has been recognized in numerous magazines and has been featured on the cover of a new book by Taunton Press. He is presently the past Chairman for the Escondido Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Escondido Arts Partnership, past Chairman of the Escondido Public Art Commission and past chair of the North County Cemetery District. Brian resides in Escondido with his wife Nancy. They have two children and three grandchildren.
Program
Brian is the host of the thirteenth annual presentation of WOOD, A Furniture Show, hosted by Brian Murphy of Murphy’s Fine Woodworking. This exhibition will feature a gathering of some of the very best furniture makers in Southern California showing their work at the Escondido Municipal Gallery. Handcrafted furniture will be exhibited in a variety of wood mediums and techniques, including innovative contemporary, traditional and whimsical art furniture, as well as detailed veneering and marquetry works. Brian is also a Judge for the show.
Brian will be addressing several topics, including:
- His personal experience judging entries and what a judge looks for;
- The history of Murphy’s Fine Woodworking, specifically the Arts & Crafts movement;
- How to encourage our younger members to pursue woodworking as an advanced hobby or career.
This will be your opportunity to learn how a woodworking exhibition is judged and what the judges are looking for. How to grow your hobby into a successful career. It will also be a time to reflect on encouraging the future of our shared craft.
Program
Time and date: 7 pm, January 25, 2023
Location: Our Mother of Confidence Catholic Church
3131 Governor Dr. – corner of Regents Rd. in Serra Hall (Downstairs)
Guest Speaker David Frisk
David Frisk has been creating his art for over 50 years. Starting his business in 1968, he has grown over the years to be a world-renowned artist. His art resides all over the United States as well as in Japan, Moscow, and England.
Most of David’s designs are inspired by nature, as he combines the practical (architecture) with the impractical (art). David's one-of-a-kind creations range from entryways to furniture to staircases for private homes as well as offices, restaurants, country clubs, and public works. David's artistic works have been commissioned by homeowners, businesses and contractors across the United States.
Homes in San Diego and Los Angeles boast his unique hand-carved entryways. San Francisco and Seattle clients enjoy his unusual works of art glass. Chicago and New York City residents show off his multi-talented creations in hand-forged metal and bronze .
See more about David and his work here.
Tool Raffle
The tool raffle is held after the meeting break. Working through partners we can offer amazing prizes. If you win then you'll likely get a great value!
REMEMBER! Money collected for the raffle goes toward the purchase of bigger and better prizes next meeting!!!
Each General Meeting attendee is given a ticket. Winning Tickets will be selected at the break. You must be present to win.
James Strawn
Raffle Committee Chair
Woodworkers Corral
Bring your latest project and show us what you've been up to.
