July 18th 2007
WHEN:
Wednesday, July 25, 6:30pm
WHERE:
Amazing Stairways
2331 E. Melrose St.
Gilbert, AZ
(cross streets are Germann & Greenfield)
Phone: 480-560-8185
MAP:
The exact address doesn’t render in GoogleMaps, so here’s a link keyed on the cross streets. Melrose St. is just north of Germann, and the shop should be just west of Greenfield. MAP LINK HERE
PROGRAM:
Amazing Stairways designs and builds complex, high-end staircases. Joe Pastore has offered to show us how he does what he does. He currently has a double staircase and a 170-degree staircase in progress. See Joe’s web site at www.amazingstairways.com.
Thanks to Joe for inviting us into his workshop. Everyone please note this is a WEDNESDAY meeting, and the time has been moved up to 6:30pm.
Steve Makin set this one up, so if you have questions, etc, please contact him by email or phone: azsteven99@yahoo.com or 480-736-3999 (w).
Ciao,
La scheggia grande e tagliente di legno
July 18th 2007
The Zen of CNC - June 26th saw the group converge on John Francis’s workshop in the Deer Valley Airpark. John has a CNC habit that he can’t break, and he was kind enough to share it with us. John has for a number of years produced a line of seating for a company that sells zen meditation and yoga equipment (www.zenbydesign.com). In the beginning, John produced these designs pretty much by hand. These days, he keeps his Onsrud CNC setup busy cranking out parts, made of 8/4 maple and other hardwoods as well as some sheet stock. This is big-boy-toy stuff, but for gearheads very interesting and in some senses, frankly, amazing. Many thanks to John for hosting and running the demo.
YouTube we ain’t - but here is a few minutes worth of video of John’s CNC monkey doing it’s thing. This is small format, low quality video in order to save disk space. Also viewable by just about the slowest connection in existence. 
More images to follow…
MDF Chairs - The design challenge Simple Chairs concluded at this meeting with the presentation of chairs by 7 makers. The idea, you recall, was to make a functional seating object from a 48″ x 48″ piece of 3/4″ MDF. Josh Kuhlmann won the $100 prize by vote of the members present. More images to follow…
Group Project - Stage 3 - Bernie Becker had his way with the “Who’s Your Daddy?” project (pictured here), and it has been passed on to Andy Glantz for its next makeover. The other two ‘daddies’ so far are Doug Forsha and Steve Makin.
Cheers,
La Astilla de Madera
