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2018 Meeting Schedule

Next Meeting

Our next meeting will be held March 31, 2018 at the Folk Art Center in Asheville, NC. Anyone with an interest in marquetry is welcome to attend!

As always, our meeting will get underway at 10 am with refreshments available prior to the meeting.  We will begin with our business meeting and a show and tell portion, break for lunch, and then return for the program.  Let’s all bring something to show what we’ve been working on over the winter!

Directions:  From all directions:  Take I-40 to Exit 55.  Follow the signs to the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 382.

2018 Meeting Schedule

Date Location Topic Presenter
3/31/2018 Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC Pad Cutting, European Marquetry Visits Jim Sockwell / Jim Davis
6/23/2018 Herzog Veneers, Highpoint, NC  TBA TBA
7/21/2018 Sauers Veneer, Lexington, NC  TBA TBA
9/15/2018 Beth’s Shop, Hillsborough, NC  TBA TBA
October ? Klingspor Expo, Hickory, NC Marquetry Booth Demos Members
11/10/2018 Klingspor Store, Winston-Salem  TBA TBA

October 2015 Newsletter

October 12, 2015

Dear Fellow Marquetarians,

Our last meeting was held at Sauer’s Veneer “Candy Store” on September 12.  It was well attended by members and guests.

After a short business meeting, Al Spicer gave a demonstration of cutting parquetry, showing us how he cut a checkerboard.  As usual, he made it look so very simple.

After this demo, Jim Sweet gave a review of Ken Horner’s new book, Basic Marquetry and Beyond.  It is an excellent book, particularly for beginners.  I certainly plan on adding it to my “library.”

We have several entries in the North Carolina State Fair marquetry competitions, both novice and experienced categories, and a full report on these results will be made at the next meeting.

Plans were made for our booth at the Klingspoor Woodworking Extravaganza in Hickory in October.  We will be well represented with members demonstrating cutting of marquetry and hope to interest many people in the art of marquetry.

After a break for lunch at Speedy’s Barbecue in Lexington, we returned to Sauers for “dessert” – that is, shopping in the Candy Store!  And shop we did.  As usual, Larry had an excellent variety of veneer to tempt us.  If anyone went home empty-handed or unhappy, it was their own fault.

Our next meeting will be November 7 at the Klingspoor in Hickory.  The address is 856 21st St. Dr. SE, Hickory and the phone number is 828-326-9663.  The meeting will get underway at 10 am with refreshments.  We plan to have a silent auction, so if you have surplus tools, supplies,  etc., or things you are no longer using but are in good shape and may be of use to someone else, please bring them.  If you will let me know what you plan to bring for sale, I will get out a list the week prior to the meeting so .  Our program this meeting will be a talk on Woodburning.  Several of us are quite interested in incorporating woodburning into marquetry, so I know this will be a very informative program for us.

DIRECTIONS to  Klingspoor, Hickory
From the East:
Take I-40 West toward Statesville
At exit 126, take ramp right toward Hickory/Newton  0.2 mi
Turn right onto McDonald Pkwy SE  0.9 mi
Turn right onto 21st St Dr SE  0.5 mi

From the West:
I-40 East toward Statesville
At exit 126, take ramp toward Hickory / Newton  0.2 mi
Turn left onto McDonald Pkwy SE  0.9 mi
Turn right onto 21st St Dr SE  0.5 mi

Until then, Happy Cutting!
Beth

lg_chest Aug 2013 meeting

Newsletter Feb. 12, 2015

Good evening, all!

Below is our newsletter with information regarding our meeting March 14 at the Folk Art Center in Asheville.  I hope we have a great turn-out.   The program promises to be very interesting and helpful to us, as an attorney will be talking to us about copyright and trademark laws.

February 12, 2015

Dear Fellow Marquetarians,

Our last meeting was held November 1, 2014 at Klingspoor Woodworking Store in Hickory, NC.  We had 22 members and guests present.  We began with a welcome and introduction of our visitors.

We had several entries for the 3-veneer challenge issued by the NorCal group.  Photos were taken and sent on to Ken Horner for judging and we understand the results will be in published in the Spring 2015 American Marquetarian.

We set our meeting dates and places for 2015 as follows.  Programs and demonstrations will be announced at a later date.  As always, all meetings are on Saturday.  Our meetings are open and visitors are welcome.

March 14, 2015 at the Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC

May 23, 2015 at Al Spicer’s shop in Dallas, NC

July 11, 2015 at Herzog Veneer in High Point, NC

September 12, 2015 at Sauers Veneer in Lexington, NC

November 7, 2015 at Klingspoor Woodworking Store in Hickory, NC

We had a discussion comparing cutting with the knife, scroll saw and fret saw with each method having strong support, resulting in the decision that it was up to the individual which way was the best.

The North Carolina State Fair offers a competition in marquetry in their Hobbies and Handicrafts division with several classes (experienced, novice, youth, etc,) of entries being .  This year, we had only 2 entries and we discussed making preparations to have many more entries in 2015, as this is an excellent arena to present marquetry to the general public.

Al Spicer demonstrated his method of sharpening a veneer saw to prolong its life.  He also demonstrated cutting stringers for our pictures.

I am sad to include news that George Moreton, one of our founding members, died April 8, 2014.  He was a master marquetarian and innovator, inventing a parquetry cutter to help cut the geometric pieces he used to do some exquisite items.  Also, Hilda Gladden, Raymond Gladden’s widow died last summer.  She was most supportive of Raymond in his marquetry and of our club.  Both will be greatly missed.

Our dues are now due and payable.  They will remain at $12 per year for 2015, but will increase to $15 for 2016.  If you have not already paid your dues, you may send a check for $12 made payable to Beth Woody to me at 109 Elmer Road, Hillsborough, NC  27278.

For our March 15 program, Christopher Clark, an attorney who will discuss how copyright and trademark laws apply to artists in general and marquetarians in particular.  Since many of us use photos and pictures to make patterns for our marquetry pieces, this topic should be quite interesting and help us understand what we can and cannot use as a pattern.  More information about Mr. Clark can be found at    http://tillmanlaw.com/our-attorneys/detail.cfm/attorney/C-Christopher-Clark

As always, our meeting will get underway at 10 am with refreshments available prior to the meeting.  We will begin with our business meeting and a show and tell portion, break for lunch, and then return for the program.  Let’s all bring something to show what we’ve been working on over the winter!

Directions:  From all directions:  Take I-40 to Exit 55.  Follow the signs to the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 382.

Until then, Happy Cutting!
Beth

August 2014 Newsletter

20 August 2014

Dear Fellow Marquetarians,

Our July meeting was held July 19, 2014 at Herzog Veneer in High Point.  We had 11 members and guests present.  The highlight of this meeting was our shopping spree in their back room.  As usual, they had a fantastic array of items for us to choose from, and I think everyone found lots to their liking.

We were updated on the Hickory Woodworking Show which will be held on October 17 and 18.  People are needed to man our booth and talk with visitors.  If you can give any time to this, please contact Bonnie Richardson at urabus2000@aol.com.

John Robinson was confirmed as our new Vice President and chapter representative for the American Marquetry Society.

We had 11 items for show and tell.

August Ron Ainaire gave an excellent presentation on bleaching and dying veneer.  He had a prepared chart showing the results of different methods, such as using chorine tablets dissolved in water, but this should be done only in an exceptionally well-ventilated area.  He also described using foaming bathroom cleaner to darken veneers.  Another method for darkening veneers was to use 12 brewed tea bags and soak ash, lacewood, karelian birch burl, and sycamore.

After our September meeting, we will have one more meeting in 2014, which will be at Klingspoor in Hickory on November 1.  It has been suggested that we have a sale/auction of items at this meeting because of the available space.  We will discuss this at our September meeting to see how much interest there is in this.

Our next meeting will be September 13 at Sauers Veneer in Lexington.  As usual, the meeting will get underway at 10 with refreshments.  For a program, we will have a round-table discussion of problems we have encountered, helpful hints we have discovered, and any other information anyone would like to share with the group.  Please be sure to bring any example you would like to share.  Also, please bring something for show and tell.  After lunch, of course, the main event will be a trip to the famous back room “candy store” and a shop til you drop session!  Larry tells me he has some new and exciting veneers, but if anyone has any special requests, please let me know so I can pass them along.

DIRECTIONS to Sauers Veneer:  Street address is 363 Dixon Street, Lexington, NC and the phone number is 336-956-1200.

From the North (Greensboro/Winston-Salem):  Take business I-85 south towards Lexington.  Take exit 84 (Linwood Road). Turn left at the stop sign and go across the bridge. Take your first right which is Dixon Street.

From the West:  Take I-40 East to Greensboro and then take business I-85 towards Lexington.  Take exit 84 (Linwood Road).  Turn left at the stop sign and go across the bridge.  Take your first right, which is Dixon Street.

From the South:  (Charlotte):  Take I-85 North towards Greensboro.  Merge onto business I-85 North via exit 87.  Take Exit 84 (Linwood Road).  Merge onto Hargrave Lane.  Take 2nd right onto Hargrave Lane.  Turn Left onto Dixon Street.

Let’s have a great turn-out for this meeting.

Until then, Happy Cutting!

Beth

October 2013 News Letter

Dear Fellow Marquetarians,

Our last meeting was held September 21 at Sauers Veneer in Lexington.  We had 17 members and guests present.

Several things were discussed:

Ø  The national club is still looking for a vice president and a person to write the Question and Answer column in the quarterly publication.  If anyone is interested in either position or has questions, please contact Julie Russell (russellja@hotmail.com).

Ø  The Klingspor Woodworking show will be held October 18 and 19 in Hickory at the Hickory Convention Center.  If anyone can help with this, either with manning the booth, demonstrating, or providing one or more pictures for display, please contact Bonnie Richardson (urabus2000@aol.com).

Ø  The website for the group (carolinamarquetry.com) is still under construction and we would like to post information about each member who would like to have a part in this website.  Please send Fay or Bob Choban (choban@usucceed.com) two or three photos of your work to be posted on the website.  If you would like, you may include an artist bio including information about your involvement in marquetry, i.e. how long you have been cutting, whether you sell or not, whether you teach or not, etc.

Ø  The next meeting will be November 2 at Woodcraft at the Four Seasons Mall in Greensboro, NC  (directions below).  As usual, we will get underway at 10 am, with refreshments prior to the meeting.  Our program will be a discussion of things that have gone wrong with our pictures and how we corrected them or suggestions from the group how to correct them.  If you have any you would like to discuss, please bring them.  Visitors are always welcome.

For our program, Jim Sweet gave a talk on water in marquetry pictures and how to determine reflections in the water.  Some of the items discussed were how the angle of the sun affected the color and size of the reflection; reflections in still, disturbed, windblown water; and combinations of these.  This was very helpful since our club project is to do a picture with water and bring it to our March meeting, which will be held March 15 at the Folk Art Center in Asheville.  Let’s see how many pictures with water we can display at this meeting.

We had a number of items for show and tell.  Included in these were several reference books brought by Al Spicer for us to look at.  These were quite interesting and hopefully he will bring them again to a meeting next year.  Also included were several first pictures by new members.  All I can say about these is, we’ve got some excellent marquetarians in the making!  Keep up the good work!

Of course, the main event was SHOPPING!  And shop we did.  If anyone didn’t find lots of veneer to their liking (I know I sure did!), it was definitely their own fault.  Larry had an excellent selection of veneer, from the old standards to some very new and unusual items, for us to choose from.  A big Thank You! to Larry and Sauers Veneer for hosting this meeting.  We are already looking forward to next year.

DIRECTIONS to Woodcraft, Greensboro:  From Westbound

Take exit 212  I-40(BUSINESS) toward Bryan Boulevard.  Take exit 217/29 (Old 217-High Point Road/Koury Boulevard) toward Coliseum area.  Turn slight right onto Pinecroft Road.  Turn left on Koury Boulevard.  Turn right onto Four Seasons Town Center Street.  Woodcraft is on the right.

From Eastbound

Take I-40/85 (BUSINESS) (right at the split of I-40/85 and I-40/85 Business) to exit 217/29 (Old 217-High Point Road/Coliseum Area) on Koury Boulevard toward Convention Center Mall.  Turn right on Koury Boulevard   Turn left onto Four Seasons Town Center Street.  Woodcraft is on the right.  The address is 504 Four Seasons Town Center and the phone number is 336-235-0900

Let’s have a great turnout for this meeting.  Until then,

Happy Cutting!

Newsletter Aug 20 2013

Dear Fellow Marquetarians,

Our July meeting was held at Klingspor Woodworking Shop in Hickory.  It was the first time we had met there and they have an excellent facility.  We look forward to future meetings with them.  We had 20 members and guests present and a number of wonderful show and tell items.

With regret, Hank Richter has given up cutting, and he offered his supplies at a silent auction.  There was a large assortment of tools and veneer with lots of excitement from the club members, and in addition to realizing some return on his investment, Hank made a lot of people very happy!

The new roster is almost complete.  For current members, a rough draft has been sent to you as an Excel spreadsheet.  Please verify your information and let me know immediately if there are any changes needed.  If I don’t hear from you, I will assume that your information is correct.  The finished and printed copy will be available at our next meeting, which will be September 21 at Sauers Veneer in Lexington, NC.

Plans are moving forward slowly for the National Meeting next summer at Sauers and Herzog .

There was a call for entries for the AMS National Symposium and Show.  Information was given out for those who may be interested in entering one or more pictures.

We will be participating at the Klingspor Hickory Woodworking Show October 18 and 19 (Friday and Saturday).  Details will be worked out at our September meeting.  Please check your calendars and be ready to let Bonnie know what you are able to do to help make this show a success.

The website is still under construction, but is up and running, and as of the July meeting, when it had been up for less than two weeks, we had already had 40 separate viewers!  John and Fay Choban have agreed to be the “webmasters” for us during this start-up time, and for that we send a huge THANK YOU!  Fay has asked for a couple photos of work by each member, so please send them directly to her at choban@usucceed.com   There will be a “members gallery”  on the website where these photos will be displayed.  There will also be a “help” section on the website where people can post questions for members to answer and/or members may list their areas of expertise and willingness to help others with problems.   We will discuss this “help” section more at the September meeting.  The website address is http://carolinamarquetry.com Please keep checking to see new additions!

Beth Woody will be teaching a marquetry class at NC State University on  September 28 and 29.  Further information can be seen at  www.ncsu.edu/crafts

The silent auction was such a success that we plan to continue something of that nature.  It will not be a regular item at every meeting, but if anyone has any tools, books, etc. that they are no longer using, they may bring them to any meeting.  A set price can be put on them or they can be auctioned off, seller’s choice.  It has also been suggested that we bring some of our marquetry books for members to look at to see if they may want to purchase one for themselves.

We have decided to do a club project.  It is to be a water themed picture.  Pattern will be your choice, and it may be a library pattern or one of your own design, it simply needs to feature water prominently in some way.  We are to have this picture completely finished by our March meeting.  Let’s all put on our thinking caps and come up with something spectacular to show everyone!

Our next meeting will be September 21 at Sauers Veneer in Lexington, NC.  As usual, anyone interested in marquetry is welcome to attend our meetings.  We will get underway at 10 am with refreshments prior to beginning the meeting.  Please bring your calendars and ideas, as we would like to discuss the dates and places of our meetings for 2014.  We would also like to know what you would like to have for programs/demonstrations and if you would be willing to do one of these.  Jim Sweet will do our program for this September meeting with a discussion/demo on doing water in a marquetry picture.  Of course, after lunch, we all look forward to SHOPPING!  Larry says he has some new and unusual veneer which will be available for us and he has also requested that if we have any specific “wants” he will do his best to fulfill those.  Therefore, if anyone wants something specific, please let me know by September 1, and I will forward those to Larry so he will have time to get them together if he has them.  Let’s have a great turn-out for this meeting.  Sauers Veneer is located at 363 Dixon Street, Lexington, NC and the phone number is 336-956-1200.

Directions:  From the North (Greensboro/Winston-Salem):  Take business I-85 south towards Lexington.  Take exit 84 (Linwood Road). Turn left at the stop sign and go across the bridge. Take your first right which is Dixon Street. From the West:  Take I-40 East to Greensboro and then take business I-85 towards Lexington.  Take exit 84 (Linwood Road).  Turn left at the stop sign and go across the bridge.  Take your first right, which is Dixon Street.

From the South:  (Charlotte):  Take I-85 North towards Greensboro.  Merge onto business I-85 North via exit 87.  Take Exit 84 (Linwood Road).  Merge onto Hargrave Lane.  Take 2nd right onto Hargrave Lane.  Turn Left onto Dixon Street.

I hope we have a great turn-out for this meeting and look forward to seeing you all then!

Beth