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Canceled due to inclement weather.
This meeting will be rescheduled.
Open to all — members and non-members. Bring your friends!
In the Great Room on the upper floor.
Reclaimed Wood
Two professional woodworkers who specialize in using wood with a history will be the speakers at our February general membership meeting. It's an especially timely topic because the woodshop's steering committee recently revised the policy for using this wood in the shop. It's now allowed, provided it's clean, dry and free of metal. (The full policy is available by the desk in the bench room.)
The speakers are Tom Salisbury, owner of Salisbury Woodworking Inc., which specializes in custom floors, stairs and recycled wood, and Jake Jacob, general manager of Pacific Northwest Timbers, a dealer in reused wood that's located across the street from Edensaw in Port Townsend.
Both speakers have decades of experience in working with the different types of wood that fit under the umbrella of "reclaimed wood," including urban salvage, recovered sunken logs, and pre-used wood.
They will discuss
- why you might want to obtain this wood.
- where to get it.
- how to work with it.
It's not just a matter of removing nails, although there are tips for that too. Do you want a fresh, just-milled look? Or do you want to preserve the patina? If the latter, is there a way to treat any freshly-cut edges so they blend in? (There is, and they will show you how.)
You'll also learn lots of other tricks they've perfected over the years. For example, the picture below shows tropical hardwood Apitong being salvaged from its former life as truck and trailer decking. Reborn, it's gorgeous flooring. Salisbury's client did not want dark nail stains, so his crew made them disappear by drilling out the blemishes and filling the holes with grain-matched Apitong plugs. On other jobs involving knotty wood, they've made plugs from small branches. Voila! The plugs look just like knots.
The timberframe and the timberframe-style table in the picture at the top of this email are examples of Salisbury's work. His clients include many Puget Sound luminaries.
Jacob, besides being a go-to person for reclaimed wood (anything from "a cubic inch to a whole truckload"), has also built scores amazing treehouses, including the Bog Treehouse at IslandWood.
Jake Jacob
Tom Salisbury
These monthly meetings always offer an informative presentation on various aspect of woodworking, plus a short business meeting. It's a good opportunity to meet other woodworkers of all skill levels, learn what's new in the shop, and share your thoughts on class offerings and studio operations.
As usual, we’ll have coffee and nibbles. Free and open to all — no need to register.
