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              Speaker: Tim Killen
                              Club Member and
                              Period furniture expert woodworker
              Presentation Title:     
                              From Engineering to Craft: Finding Purpose
                              Through Community Woodworking
 
 
             *NOTE:
              The meeting is NOT in the Multi-Purpose Room but in Room 209

Tim is a long-standing Diablo Woodworker club member and has served the community in numerous roles. For many years he led the club planning committee and has been a teacher for a variety of classes. Many of our members have taken his Building Classic Furniture, his Hand Tools Woodworking and his Sketch Up classes at the Mt. Diablo Adult School in Pleasant Hill.

Tim has authored 2 books about using SketchUp, as well as published articles on SketchUp in Fine Woodworking magazine's “Design.Click.Build.”  Tim grew up in a woodworking family, and his technical education and engineering background have influenced his precise and methodical approach to furniture design. 

In January, Tim was honored with the Society of American Period Furniture, or SAPFM, annual Cartouche Award, as a way to acknowledge his considerable achievements in the field of fine period furniture reproduction.

Presentation:
Tim's presentation focuses on 2 main topics. First, he shares his long
standing involvement with the club, starting around 2006, and some of the community projects successfully implemented by a team of the Club’s membership.

Then he will cover the build of the Williamsburg Dressing Glass that he will have at the meeting. He will describe design features, joinery, construction details, marquetry, veneer bandings and stringing, and finishing.
 

 
We hope that through this presentation, you will become inspired to get more involved in club activities, as well as try some more advanced woodworking techniques!