April Club Meeting Newsletter
	The April Club Meeting Newsletter is provided below. Thanks to Mark Mullin for the text and Dave Kariker for the pictures.

Meeting Kickoff Club President, Dick McGuire opened our meeting with an appeal for assistance with the elementary school reading improvement bookcase awards project. Anyone able to help assemble, sand or finish these precut small bookcases can contact Dick (922-5953) to get involved. This project is having a huge, positive impact on the children in our local area by encouraging and rewarding significant improvement in reading skills they can use for a lifetime. Any doubters are welcome to attend the next Fountain Lake or Jessieville school presentation ceremony to see the enthusiasm and broad smiles. As part of an effort to boost "Show & Tell" presentations, Dick showed a sanding block that will in a drawing for "Show & Tell" participants. There will be a drawing at the next two meetings.

New Club Members
	New members George Howell, Doug Jones, Terry Jasicki and Bob Nowalk were welcomed to the club and participation in club projects.

Shop Visits Bert Cueva, Shop Visit Coordinator, presented Larry Clark with a Shop Visit Appreciation plaque and thanked Larry for an excellent shop visit in March and great insights into how to coil a band saw blade without requiring numerous stitches. Bert is still looking for ideas to drum up enthusiasm for shop visits. The next shop visit is 9-11 AM May 14th (Wednesday) at Chris Biagini’s shop at 26 Caribe Way. Chris's shop visit will include a demonstration on biscuit joinery. (If you need driving instructions, click on the "Calendar" button on the right side of your screen and refer to the May 14 Shop Visit information.)

Club Projects Status Ken McNeil, Projects Director, updated our current project completions: a powder room shelf for the Coranado Center ladies room, 6 bookcases for school kids, 4 Adirondack chairs for the HSV/Garland County animal shelter fundraisers, and 10 birdhouses for another fund raiser. Ongoing projects are the bookcase effort and building children’s cubbyhole storage for Mt Pine School.

Toy Projects Status Jay Chandler, Toy Projects Director, provided updated projects status. Eleven toy teams are up and running with two more to start soon. Wally Duchow now has two pallets of donated hardwood door and drawer fronts for any toy teams needing quality ½ inch working stock.

Woodworking Instructional Status Dave Kariker described the content of the National Hardwoods Council instructional CD. Free copies of the CD were available to members. Dave passed out a handout with summary WW CD use information. The info is: This free CD is provided to club members for three principal purposes: (1) a handy reference guide to specifying North American hardwood species and finishes, (2) practice in using a PC CD/DVD player & display for woodworking instructions and (3) motivation to checkout WW Library DVDs for detailed video instruction on various aspects of woodworking and equipment utilization. These 3 areas are briefly summarized below. (1) Starting “Finishing Touch” Program: Insert the Finishing Touch CD into your PC CD/DVD drive. Your PC should either automatically run the Finishing Touch program on the disk or display a dialog asking what you want to do with the disk. Click option to run “FinishingTouch.exe”. The first screen is for display monitor calibration which you can skip by clicking “Continue”. (2) Finishing Touch CD Content: This woodworking reference CD is a series of “CD images” that you can select by clicking on various “tabs/subjects” on your PC display. (It is not a video.) The 6 information category tabs you can click on for detailed information & displays are: (1) 21 Species in 4 Virtual Stains, (2) 4 Rooms in 4 Virtual Stains, (3) Finishing Specifications, (4) Managing Expansion & Contraction, (5) Smart Specifying and (6) Project Tips & Techniques. When you click on each tab, there is more detailed information and illustrations that can be clicked for specific information. (3) Notes on WW Library DVDs: The DVDs the Club purchased are in the “-R” disk format and should read correctly in any DVD player/drive. The drive can be on your PC, attached to a TV or in a portable DVD player. (Note that a CD only drive/player can not read a DVD disk format.) Typically, one or more DVDs can be checked out at a club meeting and returned at the next club meeting. If you need a DVD sooner, contact Wally Duchow (915-0233) to make arrangements. The complete manufacturer's DVD content description for the 20 DVDs can be read by going to the club website (www.villagewoodworkers.com) and clicking on the link/button for the “WW DVDs” webpage. Notes from Wally Duchow, DVD Librarian: The $20 deposit is now waived so pick one out at a meeting. You are asked to return it directly to the librarian at the next meeting and not pass DVD(s) around so we can keep track of them.

Show & Tell

Dick Easter presented two gorgeous spherical boxes

George Haggele brought in some mystery dunnage and our best guess was that it was “light tan palm wood.”

Bill Nelson showed us some very nicely detailed wooden antique cars he purchased for only $3 each at the Shell station on Hwy 227 going to Hot Springs.

Main Program Presentation

Our guest speakers for the evening were two admirers of a woodworking legend named Sam Maloof. Sam is a 93 year-old master craftsman who builds world-renowned rocking chairs by hand, sells them for $100K each and has a five-year backlog of customers. He was even offered $50K to move someone up on his list and that person was dropped! After seeing a presentation on Sam’s techniques, Tim Hogan and Dr. Bob Miller decided to build their own versions of these legendary chairs using tiger stripe maple from a tree cut down by a power company and sold by a gentleman just wanting it off his property.

Tim Hogan brought his custom made rocking chair, as well as, an end table and bowl set for popcorn. Tim shared his nail & screw free joinery, construction and finishing techniques to create one of a kind furniture.

Dr. Bob Miller also shared his unique joinery, construction and finishing techniques for incredible results on his rocking chair.