Location:Pleasant Hill Adult Education, Room 209* 1 Santa Barbara Road, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 Speaker:Vicki Morse, DWW Board Member Topic:Bent Lamination Demonstration using the GardenChair plan by Michael Fortune. Parking:Best parking lot is the one used for the Woodworking classes. *NOTE: The meeting is NOT in the Multi-Purpose Room since Vicki will be demonstrating techniques. Vicki started taking woodworking classes with DWW shortly after she retired in 2017, without any prior experience. Woodworking quickly became a passion, despite having to go through a steep learning curve. A testament to Vicki's passion is the roughly 1000 square foot woodworking shop that she recently built in her yard, with the guidance on the design by a longtime DWW friend Wayne Shipman. Vicki has also been a key contributor to club activities. In addition to offering her shop for various shop tours, she is currently working with a team of collaborators on garden chairs that will be presented for sale in the future, with proceeds to benefit the club. These chairs are the topic of the presentation today. Lastly, she is also the club shop tour organizer. Vicki finds that the advice and inspiration from members of Diablo Woodworkers have made her woodworking journey one of joy and fulfillment. She appreciates the generosity of time and expertise that the community always provides. TOPIC Vicki and her team will demonstrate the building of a garden chair as published by Michael Fortune in the October 2012 version of Fine Woodworking magazine. This chair riffs on the traditional Adirondack chair by raising the seat to make it easier to get out of, and more importantly, makes it more beautiful, interesting and difficult! Thanks to a lot of wood bending. Vicky started working on her first chair about a year ago, and it took her about 4 months to build it. While she was able to leverage existing forms for this first build, she and her crew constructed new forms for subsequent chairs which are being built to benefit the school in a future sale. Vicki will show us both an example of the finished product, as well as the work needed to get there. She will include detail on how the forms are built and used, how the wood gets cut and shaped, both the easy stuff and the hard bits.