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Welcome to Suncoast Woodcrafters Guild

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Community Projects

Public and private non-profit organizations may contact the guild for help with woodworking projects.

Halfmoon Bay School - Cultural Connect

Animal Patterns

Suncoast Woodcrafters production

Suncoast Woodcrafters production

  

One hundred and ninety Halfmoon Bay School students will each paint an animal shape for the "Cultural Connect" project. The shapes will be displayed on school fences.


The SWG has volunteered to cut the shapes from Rona supplied plywood. Ron Johnson is the point of contact. Please give him a hand, nominally 20 pieces per helper!

Suncoast Woodcrafters production

Suncoast Woodcrafters production

Suncoast Woodcrafters production

Tom Hourigan and Ron Johnson would like to thank all 15 wood crafters who completed 203 animal images for a Cultural Connection Project for the Halfmoon Bay Community School. Each cutout will be painted by one of their students and all of them will be mounted on two chain-link fences. Each final animal represents a connection to all the others regardless of race, gender, or religion.


Rona Coast Builders donated the wood, 4 sheets of good one sided fir plywood.


The shapes have been delivered to the school.


Job well done!

 maple burl transformation 

A large maple tree came down and the owner, Merv Hunter, offered us the wood. The harvest will be distributed to members who will turn it into beautiful green and distant future projects. 

the site

even the cutoffs are awesome

the site

 The tree is burly and massive. It has a hollow core all the way up the the major branches. 

a load

even the cutoffs are awesome

the site

 Here's a load of sections. Some are best for bowls, others for flat slabs.  

even the cutoffs are awesome

even the cutoffs are awesome

even the cutoffs are awesome

After squaring up a section, the end facing the rotten core might make a nice end table

a burl section, slabbed end view

a burl section, slabbed side view

a burl section, slabbed side view

 a burl section cut into two inch slabs  

a burl section, slabbed side view

a burl section, slabbed side view

a burl section, slabbed side view

 

book matched burl slabs

a burl section, slabbed side view

book matched burl slabs

it has a marvelous pattern of burl angst

more book matched burl slabs

more book matched burl slabs

more book matched burl slabs

 a lower trunk set of book matched slabs

more book matched burl slabs

more book matched burl slabs

more book matched burl slabs

  another  lower trunk set of book matched slabs 

bark removal

more book matched burl slabs

bark removal

the bark peels off pretty easilywhile the wood is green.  I used a 3/8" chisel to peel away the easy parts and whittle away at the more difficult

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