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A Dedicated Group of Wood Collectors and Crafters |
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August 22 - 26, 2018 - Annual General Meeting in St Charles, Missouri, USA
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was held in St. Charles, MO. at the Embassy Suites Hotel.
 
(left) Elizabeth assembling all of her photos between breaks at the meeting. (right) Violet Oman shows off one of the finished butcher block cutting boards. Violet and her husband, Eric, provided all of the materials and taught the class on making the boards.
 
Garry Roux and a team of volunteers spent several months making scale models of the keel boat used during the Lewis and Clark expeditions in 1804. Each couple attending the St. Charles meeting received one of the scale model boats.
Up until they reached the Mandan villages in present-day North Dakota, the Corps of Discovery traveled in a keel boat specially designed for the task. Built in Pittsburgh, the keel boat traveled down the Ohio River until reaching the Mississippi River and eventually, St. Louis. Once upon the Missouri, the boat had to be pulled upstream, an arduous task by any standard, usually making around five miles a day. - 10-11-2018
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Cutting Board Images - click on images to enlarge.
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Violet and Eric Oman taught a class on making butcher block cutting boards. They brought all of the wood, glue, oil, gloves, hearing protection, paper towels, clamps, planer, sanders and a chop saw. Howard Products generously provided samples of their woodcare products to finish the boards, and they provided several bottles of their beeswax products for the silent auction. http://www.howardproducts.com/ |
John Ferreira shows how to engrave your name onto the finished cutting boards. |
Joyce Symonds with her finished board. Violet and Eric brought plastic bags. |
Debbie Ferreira finish sands her cheese board. |
Nevada Rye, Pam Munger, and Judy Chastain share a laugh while gluing up
their cutting boards. |
Duane Keck (right) and Art Lee clamp up their boards. |
Once the glue had dried, Eric ran all of the boards through a planer. |
Denny and Margie Krupinski sort their wood blanks before gluing them. |
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