Woodworking Fundamentals The Fundamental Woodworking sub group will meet on October 3, 2026, 9:00 - 12:00 at Bob LaCivita’s shop . This meeting will focus on working with plywood and composite materials (MDF). Bob will cover methods of edgebanding , plywood joinery and plywood construction. If time allows we will discuss the basics of veneer ... Read more
Woodworking Fundamentals There will be two topics for the June 6th meeting of the Woodworking Fundamentals group. The first topic to be discussed will be shooting boards and how to tune miters and square cuts. The talk will include how to build and use a shooting board and plane adjustment to get the preferred cut. ... Read more
The topic for this session of the Woodworking Fundamentals Group will be sledding. No, THAT kind of sledding will unfortunately be gone by April! However, Bob will take us on a shop journey to learn how to build sleds, for the table saw and other machinery. He will cover material choices, guides, and squaring the ... Read more
In this meeting Bob will be covering different shop tips and skills that will help increase your accuracy and efficiency in the shop. A few of the tips Bob will show will be various stops to make like parts, jigs to cut circles, and clamping techniques for gluing your work square. In addition, if there ... Read more
In this meeting Bob will be demonstrating different methods for fitting drawers and as always will try to answer any questions that pertain to woodworking. The first method for fitting the drawers will be using the runner and kicker. This is a traditional technique involving planning the sides of the drawer to fit the interior of ... Read more
So, you have made through dovetails and now it is time to learn how to make half-blind dovetails! Bob will demonstrate how to make these dovetails in the front of the drawer box that was started at the June meeting. In June, he demonstrated making through dovetails for the back of the box and this ... Read more
