General Meeting -- open to all.
Agenda
9:00 Arrive enjoy coffee and meet with members.
9:30 Short Business Meeting
9:45 Sub Group reports
10:00 introduce new members or those who have never been to a meeting
10:15 Mike DiMaggio
This presentation will be a condensed, comprehensive discussion of the purchasing, restoration and care of a variety or vintage hand tools. I will provide a number of examples of refurbished tools for your inspection. I encourage our members to bring to the meeting any tools that they might have questions in regard to the restoration, repair or maintenance of their tools.
Mike will speak about Vintage and Antique Hand tools
!, Where to Purchase
2, Determining Value
3, Restoration, Cleaning, Rust, Pitting, Rehandling, Protection
4, Maintenance and Sharpening
5, Steel Quality
6, Aftermarket blades
7, Camilia oil, Jo Jobaoil, Microcrystalline wax
12:00 Break for brown bag lunch
12:30 Matt Wajda
Matt Wajda attended the Cabinet and Furniture making program at the North Bennet Street School from 1998-2000.
As a student, Matt assisted public workshops, eventually going on to teach many of the woodworking workshops offered
by NBSS. He has also taught many workshops at other institutions including MassArt, Penland school of Craft and The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.
After graduating from NBSS, Matt formed River City Furnituremaking in Rollinsford,NH. Now a co op shop with five individual makers.
River City has specialized in seating furniture of all styles, collaborating with designers and many different forms of architectural elements.
Matt has been active with both the Guild of New Hampshire woodworkers with the BIG group, and with annual lectures and demos with the Eastern Massachusetts Guild of Woodworkers.
Matt currently teaches part time in the Cabinet and Furnituremaking program at NBSS where he primarily teaches the chair making sections of the two year curriculum and is still active at the Rollinsford co-op shop.
Matt will be speaking about the simple-ish set of fundamental woodworking hand tools needed to execute quality work and do a couple
demos with each tool. Some simple demos, hopefully a couple that invoke some good Q and A and get some good conversation going
3:00 clean up