2025 10 Newsletter

Sawdust from the Prez

You don’t always need a fancy store-bought jig. A used piece of hardboard and a broken dowel and couple of strips of double-backed tape may be enough to get your router going in circles. Here I’m forming a round top for a cream can side table. Just enough room for a mug and a remote. 

One of the fun parts of woodworking for me is figuring out ways to do things that utilize what I already have on hand, and this one combines no out-of-pocket with a safe set-up. Just working it down from each face for a nice, clean cut.

Now that cooler days are here – OK. Not here yet, but the forecast promises they are coming – it’s a great time to step into your workspace, and blow the dust off what you were working on, and figure out the next step. Or take that project idea from your head and help it take shape in some wood. Our next club meeting is coming up, Thursday, October 16, 7 PM at the Fred Maytag II Scout Center. Come and get inspired to make some sawdust. I hope to see you there!

Ken Rummer, President