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Hello Jim, this is your newsletter for Decemb 7, 2022

The Journal
Hand Tool Restoration Meeting - This Sunday
1st New England Woodworking Competition Update
Mentoring is here and connections are being made. Contact Mike
A great time to shop at the "Guild Store" for your Woodworker
New from the "Gary and Mike - Tool Talk"
Classifieds - More New Ads

The Journal—Fall Issue

The fall issue has been printed and will hit the post office shortly. There were a couple of delays this time and being the holiday season, it may take a while to arrive at your mailbox.

We publish two issues per year now—Spring and Fall. The Spring issue is the larger of the two—80+ pages. The Fall issue is 48 pages this time.

Our print run was 770 copies this issue. Our printer/mailer is Puritan Press in Hollis, NH. They have been our printer since issue No. 1.

If you have an idea for an article (Spring deadline is end of Feb), please contact us at [email protected]

Hand Tool Restoration

Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

10 Woodbine Lane, Merrimack, NH, 03054

The focus of our next meeting is on hand tool restoration and.............

Click HERE to learn more and register.

Lou Yelgin

[email protected]

1st Annual New England Woodworking Competition

Sponsored by

The Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers

We are honored to announce our judges for the event:

Owain Harris, Garrett Hack, David Lamb

As you may already be aware, we are also honored to have Dan Faia, the 2023 Cartouche Award winner, given by The Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM) as our Keynote Speaker.

In addition, Furniture Master Tom McLaughlin will be Master of Ceremonies.

Elliot Savitzky

Committee and Event Chair

Mentoring "follow me, I'll show you the way"

Please, when contacting me provide your address and phone number. This will facilitate my efforts. Thanks

Anyone interested in receiving support from a mentor should contact Mike DiMaggio. Email ([email protected]) or cell phone 917-292-0989

Mike DiMaggio

Mentor Coordinator

New Website Coming This Month

Our website is a fundamental piece of our Guild's infrastructure. It is our store front aimed at prospective members and hosts our classified ads, event calendar, member forum, video & document archives and much more.

12 Month Statistics:

46K visits
93K pages viewed
49% of visits viewed using a phone, 47% with a computer. 4% with a tablet

The current site was built nearly 10 years ago using Drupal with some upgrades along the way. This new site is refreshed and revamped using Wordpress which I find today to be a more capable and easier to maintain platform.

If you are interested in helping to maintain content on this site, please contact me at [email protected]

Jim Seroskie — Webmaster

The Guild Store

Check out our marked down sale prices on select Guild branded merchandise in the GNHW online store at https://www.gnhw.org/guild-merchandise. Look for the word “SALE >> “ with details in the description below the image of the item.

Avoid shipping charges if you are in the Concord area at a mutually convenient time for a merchandise pick up at the Guild Store. Email Bob Wyatt to coordinate a merchandise order and pick up without shipping charges. Bob’s contact information is listed in the GNHW.org/member services/membership/member directory.

Bob Wyatt, Guild Merchandise Manager

Classified Ads and Opportunities

Gary & Mike: Tool Talk

Tool Bytes from Gary’s Shop

Fine woodworking is not only building fine furniture and cabinets, but installing architectural millworks falls into this realm. Installing tight miter joints is a very important aspect to a professional looking trim job. I have been working on a 18,000 square foot home and some of the trim casing I am installing is very expensive and up to 5 inches wide. I like to clamp and glue my miters; clamping them has been a challenge until I was introduced to a great device called the Hartford clamp (see pic). These clamps put pressure on the inside and outside parts of your miters for a tight fit.

Unfortunately, these are no longer available, but the good news is that you can get a similar device call the Clam Clamp miter clamp. Made by chestnut tools https://www.miterclamp.com/index.htm

Woodcraft has a knockoff (https://www.woodcraft.com/products/miter-max-corner-clamp-woodriver?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2LnN2bfi-wIVgorICh1YjwAUEAAYASAAEgJZJvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

The following U-Tube video does a great job explaining their uses and compares the different models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcjgnWvZuzA

They are a bit pricy, but if it makes the job easier and improves the quality of work, then they are worth investing in.

Cheers

Until next time

Gary

Classified Ads

Classified ads are posted to the “Classified Ads section of the Guild website, not “Touchups”. On Wednesdays each week when Touchups comes out, there is a listing of the more recent ads.

To have an ad posted, contact Steve Costain