CJWA Summer Picnic
Next meeting: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 7:00PM is an in person event.
The Central Jersey Woodworkers Association normally meets monthly on the second Wednesday of the month (except for July and August) from 7:00PM to 10:00PM at the Old Brick Reformed Church on Route 520 in Marlboro NJ. We welcome new members and guests.
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The Central Jersey Woodworkers Association is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization of woodworkers founded for the purpose of providing a resource to the community for the promotion of woodworking and woodworking education at all levels of experience, sharing of information about woodworking techniques, tools, and sources for supplies, and facilitating the exchange of ideas with fellow woodworkers.
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Bill Woodward has been kind enough to host this years family CJWA club picnic. The date is Saturday July 31 from 1 to 5PM, with a rain date the following Sunday August 1.
The club will provide hamburgers, hot dogs, soda, paper goods and cups. If everyone planning to attend would bring a side dish or dessert similar to what we did for our Holiday Party, no one will leave hungry. In order to get an idea of how many burgers and soda to buy, please RSVP to Marc Gaertner with how many are coming and what you are planning on bringing. This way we can avoid excessive duplication of items, although I think that an excess of desserts is never a problem. It would be also be helpful if people can bring additional chairs.
Hope to see everyone there!
Marc’s email is marcleslieg [at] gmail [dot] com, and his phone is 732-390-9492.
Bill’s address is 13 Roberts Rd, Millstone NJ 08536, just south of Route 33 and close to exit 8 on the NJ Turnpike, and his phone number is 732-446-9782.
As part of Lie-Nielsen’s Hand Tool event at Frank Klausz’s workshop this June, they offered a special Thursday night event for CJWA members. Deneb Puchalski gave demos on many aspects of hand tool use for club members, and although the event was only scheduled for a couple of hours, Deneb graciously kept going for as long as people had questions. Thanks to Lie-Nielsen for hosting this event for our club!
Lie-Nielsen will be coming to New Jersey June 25-26 to have one of their hand tool events at Frank Klausz’s shop in Pluckemin, NJ. For anyone who hasn’t been to a Lie-Nielsen hand tool event but is at all interested in hand tools, this is an event not to be missed. Besides having a chance to try out the wide variety of Lie-Nielsen tools in person, there are ongoing demonstrations that are sure to improve your skills with hand tools, whether you use Lie-Nielsen tools or not. Demonstrations will be given throughout the event by Fred West from Marcou Planes, Matt Bickford of M.S. Bickford Planes, and Chuck Bender of the Acanthus Workshop, as well as by Frank Klausz himself and members of the Lie-Nielsen staff.
In addition, there will be a special event for CJWA members only on the evening of Thursday, June 24, from 7-9 PM at Frank Klausz’s shop. Deneb Puchalski from Lie-Nielsen will be hosting a private demonstration of basics on handtools and sharpening plus answer any questions that might come up. Lie-Nielsen tools will be on sale that evening as well, and CJWA members will be offered a 10% discount for any purchases made that evening.
For those looking to buy a workbench, Lie-Nielsen also has one bench for sale from their show display. It will be $2,000.00 and can be picked up on Saturday. It is 6 ft long with a tool tray and is 35” tall.
More information on this event and directions can be found at the Lie-Nielsen website.
The June CJWA meeting will be at 7 PM on Wednesday, June 9, at the church and will be our 8 board feet of lumber exhibition. If you haven’t started on your project yet, you still have some time to get something done. A copy of the contest rules can be downloaded here.