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September 2022
Jigs and Fixtures
This is our popular jigs and fixtures meeting, These fixtures are either purchased or shop made and the pros and cons of each are discussed. There is always a good variety of jigs and fixtures. The actual time is 2pm but come early if you want to help us set up the chairs and socialize. Also after 4 we put the chairs etc. back to their original locations. This is always a fun presentation.
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Early American Period Ladies’ Table
Ed Stuckey will demonstrate construction details, including types of wood, veneers, banding, and stringing, on a pair of recently-built Thomas Seymour Ladies' Work Tables (1810-1820). As described by scholars, these tables were objects of visual pleasure and an expression of women's leisure and refined needlework skills. This meeting is currently scheduled as a Livonia Community Center meeting but may be changed to a zoom meeting depending on Covid 19 at that time.
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Reproductions of Three Period Pieces by Steve Lash
Long-time Guild member Steve Lash will present details of 3 of his period furniture reproduction pieces: 1. A Baltimore brickwork stack laminate cellarette made of mahogany with amboyna and satinwood veneers. A cellarette is a small cabinet designed to hold bottles of wine or spirits. 2. A late 18th-century ebonized pearwood mantle clock to contain a Keininger’s 250th Mozart Anniversary clock movement that played Mozart’s A Little Night Music. The clock won the 2018 National Association of Watch and Clock…
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