http://www.semiww.org/wiki/ 2009-01-05T18:10:12-05:00 http://www.semiww.org/wiki/ http://www.semiww.org/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-01-05T15:02:38-05:00 Matt Meiser http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/matt_meiser?rev=1231185758&do=diff I am 35 and live in Ida with my wife and daughter. By day, I am a Sr. Systems Engineer with a St. Louis, MO-based systems integration company. I've been a member of SEMIWW since August, 2004. In the fall of 2006, I reworked my shop to allow me to do welding projects in addition to woodworking projects. text/html 2009-01-05T07:57:03-05:00 Matt Meiser http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/home?rev=1231160223&do=diff Most of our communication occurs on our discussion forum. We have monthly meetings at Dave's shop (Just_George) in Ypsilanti, MI on the third Thursday of the month at 7pm. Send a Private Message to Just_George or Chris Billman for directions to the meetings. text/html 2009-01-05T07:56:18-05:00 Matt Meiser http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/semww_meeting_information?rev=1231160178&do=diff We have monthly meetings at Dave's shop (Just_George) in Ypsilanti, MI on the third Thursday of the month at 7pm. Send a Private Message to Just_George or Chris Billman for directions to the meetings. Previous Meetings 2008 * Dec 2008 - Raised Panel Doors. * Nov 2008 - Cabinet series - Turning legs. Plus face frames for the cabinet series. * Oct 2008 - Sheet Goods. Plus, carcases for the cabinet series. * Sep 2008 - Prepping lumber by power and hand. Plus, design for the cabinet s… text/html 2008-12-31T15:33:03-05:00 Matt Meiser http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/matt_meiser/bathroom_vanity?rev=1230755583&do=diff text/html 2008-12-26T22:53:32-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/stevesawyer/hand_tool_and_assembly_area?rev=1230350012&do=diff Walking into the shop from our recreation room. The clamp rack is on the outer wall of the laundry. Note the handy bathroom right in the middle of the shop! The cabinet on the left is one of four that I picked up a couple of years ago at a garage sale for $20 apiece. Lighting in this room is all 4' twin-tube T8 fluorescents - noticeably brighter despite being less wattage than T12's. Highly recommended See some pictures below for some shots of the current workbench that replaced the one you see… text/html 2008-12-26T22:29:13-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/stevesawyer/delta_jointer?rev=1230348553&do=diff People who get into restoring old woodworking machinery tend to find it addictive - a slippery slope from which some never recover. Don't know if this will happen to me, but there are worse addictions... Somewhere I saw a picture of a vintage 8” Delta Jointer with a cast-iron base. The unit dated to somewhere between the late 40's and mid-50's, an era when there was still an artistic flair in industrial design. This particular piece of machinery had a Frank Lloyd Wright or Art Deco styling to… text/html 2008-12-26T22:15:25-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/stevesawyer/saw_till_substitute?rev=1230347725&do=diff Those of us who are into hand saws often build a “till” as a rack for storage of our saws. I didn't have room for a full-sized till, but needed someplace to store my saws. I ran across this basic idea somewhere online or in a magazine (don't remember which) and this was the result. It works pretty good, though I think that for larger panel saws something like this might need to have rubber hose or something around the dowels to provide a bit better grip, but for the small saws you see here, … text/html 2008-12-26T22:06:04-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/steve_sawyer?rev=1230347164&do=diff Life and Woodworking I've always been a bit of a tool and workshop freak. I've had some kind of work and tool area from the age of about 8. I started to get into woodworking in my early 20's when I had access to my former father-in-law's workshop. In my late 20's I bought a table saw and started to collect tools, and built a nice european-style workbench, tool cabinet and several pieces of furniture. All but one of the furniture pieces found their way to the homes of friends and relatives as we… text/html 2008-12-26T21:42:02-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/stevesawyer/stationary_tool_area?rev=1230345722&do=diff At one time, this area was my entire shop. Marcy, The Beautiful Woman I Married, recognized that I was a leetle bit cramped, and helped me generate twice the area for the shop. She also gave me the Jet Deluxe Xacta cabinet saw you see in these pictures as an anniversary present. Ain't she great? text/html 2008-12-26T21:18:46-05:00 Steve http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/stevesawyer/small_items?rev=1230344326&do=diff After finally getting my shop in usable shape, I completed two small projects. The first I actually started about two years earlier, getting only as far as milling the stock to size from some nice cherry that I bought from Armstrong Millworks. The goal was to finally master hand-cut dovetails, and these shaker-style serving trays were just the project. I made two of them, and gave one to my Dad and his wife. text/html 2008-12-07T16:06:09-05:00 Sawdust http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/natural_edge_box_elder?rev=1228683969&do=diff Box elder, with some worm holes. To keep the bark on, I turned it down to about 1/4” wall thickness, and then soaked the bark with CA glue. Sanding sealer and wipe on poly finished, then buffed and waxed. text/html 2008-12-07T16:02:26-05:00 Sawdust http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/sawdust?rev=1228683746&do=diff ABOUT ME I am a retired Civil Engineer with the feds and live in Dundee with my wife. Besides woodworking as a hobby, I enjoy yard work and fishing in my pond or the River Raisin. My father was a general contractor, and my grandfather was a cabinetmaker. I took wood shop in Junior High, and then did no woodworking till I got through college, got married, and we bought our first house. text/html 2008-11-21T10:38:18-05:00 Sawdust http://www.semiww.org/wiki/doku.php/members/spindle_turning_for_flatwork?rev=1227281898&do=diff