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The Wonthaggi Woody August 2019 P1
Hi every one, I would like to thank Hartley, Grant, Tony, and the rest of the committee for their work over the last two years. I would also like to welcome the new committee to office for the upcoming year and look forward to working with you all.
We are planning, in late September/October to add the extension to the turning room so we will be looking for help from the members over this time as this will benefit the whole
club at the end of the day.
The sausage sizzle we had at the club on Sunday the 11/8 was a great day and a good way for some of the new members to get to meet other members of the club.
The committee and members would like to wish Lionel Wood a speedy recovery after a triple by past, and Harry Smith who has has been struggling with his health for a while has recently been taken into hospital to have a stent inserted, also all the best to Alan McNaught who is moving in to rose lodge and Okke Huitema who is struggling with ill health.
Please don't forget the Father’s day/night at Bunnings as the toy makers need help on the night of 29/8 so please if you can help put your name on the sheet at the club rooms.
On a serious note - we have recently discovered damage to some equipment that although is not a costly item it is an inconvenience while it is ’out-of-action’. It disappointing that no one bothered to notify our maintenance guys.
We are well aware that equipment is prone to breakage due to wear and tear, but if there is a breakage or a fault with equipment PLEASE write a note on the white board and secure any pieces so they don’t get lost.
Neil Lenne
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE YOUR COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT:
Neil Lenne - (03) 5678 5736
VICE-PRESIDENT:
Neil Bateman - (03) 5672 3229
SECRETARY:
Lex Van Saane - (03) 5674 6634
TREASURER:
John DiStefano - 0481 480 812
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Syd Gordon - 0434 614 573
Hartley Tobin - (03) 5997 6328
Lionel Wood - 0490 695 9500
Alan Hurst - 0427 393 234
Frank Kisvarda - (03) 5674 6644
David McNaughton - (03) 5672 6714 - 0418 565 467
Club Email - [email protected]
Website - www.wonthaggiwoodcrafters.com.au
Facebook - www.facebook.com/wonthaggiwoodcraftersinc
Secretary - [email protected]
Newsletter - [email protected]
DIARY… 2019
Bunnings Fathers Day - Thursday 29th August
Committee Meeting - Monday 2nd September
General Meeting - Monday,9th September
Committee Meeting - Monday 7th October
General Meeting - Monday,14th October
Bunnings BBQ - Sunday, 10th November
Bunnings BBQ - Sunday, 22nd December
Wonthaggi Woodcrafters
P. O. Box 477 Wonthaggi
3995
Jean Meltzer Centre
239 White Road
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WOODIES WORKSHOP SESSIONS
WOODTURNING: Regular Sessions
Monday 9 am – 12 noon Contact Hartley Tobin: 5997 6328, Neil Bateman: 5672 3229 or Neil Lenne: 5678 5736
Monday 5 pm – 8 pm Contact John DiStefano: 0481 480 812
Wednesday 1pm – 4pm Contact Lionel Wood: 5672 2029
Friday 9 am – 12 noon Contact Hartley Tobin: 5997 6328 Neil Bateman: 5672 3229 or Neil Lenne: 5678 5736
SEGMENTED TURNING: Regular Sessions
Friday 9am to 12 noon Contact Alan McNaught: 5674 2457
WOODTURNING: On-demand Sessions
Friday (project based) 1 pm – 4 pm Contact Hartley Tobin: 5997 6328
TOY GROUP: Regular Sessions
Tuesday 9 am – 4 pm Contact Ron Snooks: 0429 722 113
PYROGRAPHY: Regular Sessions
Friday 1 pm – 4 pm Contact Michael Bladen: 0428 270 850
SCROLL SAWING: Regular Sessions
Wednesday 9 am – 12 noon Contact Ray Oram: 5662 4181 or Lionel Wood: 0490 695 950
BANDSAW BOX MAKING: On-demand Sessions
Monday 1 pm – 4 pm Contact Marion Kerry: 0409 010 843
JOINERY & SMALL FURNITURE MAKING: Regular Sessions
Thursday 9am - 12 noon Contact David McNaughton: 0425 786 381
CARVING: Regular Sessions
Friday 9am – 12 noon Contact Harry Smith: 5674 8078 or Lionel Wood: 5672 2029
As a courtesy to workshop supervisors and other participants
please notify them in advance if you are unable to attend your regular session.
MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS FOR ***
A very happy birthday to the following Members – Michael Bladen, Norm Court, David McNaughton,
Andrew Orr and Diane Walker.
There are still some birthdays not on our records. If we’ve missed you, please let Syd
Gordon know or email [email protected]
SAVINGS ON EXPENDABLES
The club has expendable items (sandpaper, super glue, etc) for sale at cost price. If you are interested
in purchasing any of these items see your supervisor. Check the noticeboard for details and cost.
UPCOMING EVENTS
29th August - Bunnings Fathers Day/Night with the Toy makers.
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SHOW AND TELL
Alan Hurst: Driftwood fish
Hartley Tobin: A selection of small pyrographed boxes.
Alan Hurst: Small winged Lex Van Sanne: Small Sheoak
bowl
Alan Hurst: Serving bowl with
ceramic insert
Neil Lenne: Laminated bowl
Hartley Tobin: Small bowl turned from wet wood. Still moving!
Lex Van Sanne: Small Sheoak Bowl
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SHOW AND TELL CONTINUED
Lex Van Sanne: Sheoak Alan Hurst: Bud vase with captive rings. Alan
emphasized the importance of fitting a glass tube.
Hartley Tobin: Huan Pine “bowl saver” demo.
This tested the limits of the bowl saver jig.
Neil Lenne: Native Wattle
Neil Lenne: Novelty hollow box on stand. Hartley Tobin: Lasy Susan - Sheoak and
‘wipe-on-poly’.
Lex Van Sanne: Small Sheoak bowl Neil Lenne: Oven gadget for pulling out
and pushing in an oven tray.
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LIGNOPHILES
From the Latin Lignum (wood) and the Ancient Greek Philos (loving)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots,
and almonds.
Native to the northern temperate regions, 430 different species are
classified under Prunus. Many members of the genus are widely
cultivated for their fruit and for decorative purposes. Prunus fruit are
defined as drupes, or stone fruits, because the fleshy mesocarp
surrounding the endocarp (pit or stone) is edible. Most Prunus fruit and
seeds are commonly used in processing, such as jam production,
canning, drying, or roasting.
Botany
Members of the genus can be deciduous or evergreen. A few species
have spiny stems. The leaves are simple, alternate, usually lanceolate,
unlobed, and often with nectaries on the leaf stalk. The flowers are
usually white to pink, sometimes red, with five petals and five sepals.
Numerous stamens are present. Flowers are borne singly, or in umbels of
two to six or sometimes more on racemes. The fruit is a fleshy drupe (a
"prune") with a single relatively large, hard-coated seed (a "stone").
Within the rose family Rosaceae, it was traditionally placed as a
subfamily, the Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Prunoideae"), but was
sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae).
More recently, Prunus is thought to have evolved from within a much
larger clade now called subfamily Amygdaloideae (incorrectly
"Spiraeoideae").
Classification
Linnean classification
In 1737, Carl Linnaeus used four genera to include the species of modern
Prunus—Amygdalus, Cerasus, Prunus and Padus—but simplified it to
Amygdalus and Prunus in 1758. Since then, the various genera of
Linnaeus and others have become subgenera and sections, as all the
species clearly are more closely related. Liberty Hyde Bailey says: "The
numerous forms grade into each other so imperceptibly and inextricably
that the genus cannot be readily broken up into species."
Modern classification
A recent DNA study of 48 species concluded that Prunus is monophyletic
and is descended from some Eurasian ancestor.
Historical treatments break the genus into several different genera, but this segregation is not currently widely
recognised other than at the subgeneric rank. The ITIS recognises just the single genus Prunus, with an open list
of species, all of which are given at List of Prunus species.[b]
One standard modern treatment of the subgenera derives from the work of Alfred Rehder in 1940. Rehder
hypothesized five subgenera: Amygdalus, Prunus, Cerasus, Padus, and Laurocerasus. To them C. Ingram added
Lithocerasus. The six subgenera are described as follows:
Prunus subgenera:
Subgenus Amygdalus, almonds and peaches: axillary buds in threes (vegetative bud central, two flower buds to
sides); flowers in early spring, sessile or nearly so, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side; stone
deeply grooved; type species: Prunus dulcis (almond)
Prunus
Prunus cerasus (sour cherry) in bloom
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Amygdaloideae
Tribe: Amygdaleae
Genus: Prunus L.
Type species
P. domestica L.
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Subgenus Prunus, plums and apricots: axillary buds solitary; flowers in early spring stalked, not on leafed shoots;
fruit with a groove along one side, stone rough; type species: Prunus domestica (plum)
Subgenus Cerasus, cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed
shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus cerasus (sour cherry)
Subgenus Lithocerasus: axillary buds in threes; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed
shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus pumila (sand cherry)
Subgenus Padus, bird cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in late spring in racemes on leafy shoots, short-
stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus padus (European bird cherry), now known to be
polyphyletic
Subgenus Laurocerasus, cherry-laurels: mostly evergreen (all the other subgenera are deciduous); axillary buds
single; flowers in early spring in racemes, not on leafed shoots, short-stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type
species: Prunus laurocerasus (European cherry-laurel)
Another recent DNA study found two clades: Prunus-Maddenia, with Maddenia basal within Prunus, and
Exochorda-Oemleria-Prinsepia, but further refinement[1]
shows that Exochorda-Oemleria-Prinsepia are somewhat
separate from Prunus-Maddenia-Pygeum, and that, like the traditional subfamily Maloideae with apple-like fruits,
all of these genera appear to be best considered within the expanded subfamily Amygdaloideae. Prunus can be
divided into two clades: Amygdalus-Prunus and Cerasus-Laurocerasus-Padus. Yet another study adds
Emplectocladus as a subgenus to the former.
The genus Prunus includes the almond, the nectarine and peach, several species of apricots, cherries, and plums,
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Tibetan cherry (Prunus serrula) bark
Black cherry (Prunus serotina) in bloom
Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata) blossoms
The development sequence of a nectarine (P. persica) over a 7.5 month period, from bud formation in early winter to fruit ripening in midsummer
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all of which have cultivars developed for commercial fruit and nut production. The almond is not a true
nut; the edible part is the seed. Other species are occasionally cultivated or used for their seed and
fruit.
A number of species, hybrids, and cultivars are grown as ornamental plants, usually for their profusion
of flowers, sometimes for ornamental foliage and shape, and occasionally for their bark.
The Tree of 40 Fruit has 40 varieties grafted on to one rootstock.
Species such as blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), are grown for hedging, game cover, and other utilitarian
purposes.
The wood of some species (notably black cherry) is prized as a furniture and cabinetry timber,
especially in North America.
Many species produce an aromatic resin from wounds in the trunk; this is sometimes used medicinally.
Other minor uses include dye production.
Pygeum, a herbal remedy containing extracts from the bark of Prunus africana, is used as to alleviate
some of the discomfort caused by inflammation in patients suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Prunus species are food plants for the larvae of a large number of Lepidoptera species (butterflies and
moths); see List of Lepidoptera which feed on Prunus.
Prunus species are included in the Tasmanian Fire Service's list of low flammability plants, indicating
that it is suitable for growing within a building protection zone.
Because of their considerable value as both food and ornamental plants, many Prunus species have
been introduced to parts of the world to which they are not native, some becoming naturalised.
Ornamental Prunus
See also: List of Award of Garden Merit flowering cherries
Ornamentals include the group that may be collectively called "flowering cherries" (including sakura,
the Japanese flowering cherries).
Toxicity
Many species are cyanogenic; that is, they contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides, notably
amygdalin, which, on hydrolysis, yield hydrogen cyanide. Although the fruits of some may be edible by
humans and livestock (in addition to the ubiquitous fructivory of birds), seeds, leaves and other parts
may be toxic, some highly so. The plants contain no more than trace amounts of hydrogen cyanide,
but on decomposition after crushing and exposure to air or on digestion, poisonous amounts may be
generated. The trace amounts may give a characteristic taste ("bitter almond") with increasing
bitterness in larger quantities, less tolerable to people than to birds, which habitually feed on specific
fruits.
Benefits to human health
People are often encouraged to consume many fruits because they are rich in a variety of nutrients
and phytochemicals that are supposedly beneficial to human health. The fruits of Prunus often contain
many phytochemicals and antioxidants. These compounds have properties that have been linked to
preventing different diseases and disorders. Research suggests that the consumption of these fruits
reduces the risk of developing diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and other
age-related declines. Many factors can affect the levels of bioactive compounds in the different fruits
of the genus Prunus, including the environment, season, processing methods, orchard operations, and
postharvest management.
Cherries
Cherries contain many different phenolic compounds and anthocyanins, which are indicators of being
rich in antioxidants. Recent research has linked the phenolic compounds of the sweet cherry (Prunus
avium) with antitumor properties.
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) include superoxide radicals, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals, and singlet
oxygen; they are the byproducts of metabolism. High levels of ROS lead to oxidative stress, which causes
damage to lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. The oxidative damage results in cell death, which ultimately leads
to numerous diseases and disorders. Antioxidants act as a defense mechanism against the oxidative stress.
They are used to remove the free radicals in a living system that are generated as ROS. Some of those
antioxidants include gutathione S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, and catalase. The
antioxidants present in cherry extracts act as inhibitors of the free radicals. However, the DNA and proteins can
be damaged when an imbalance occurs in the level of free radicals and the antioxidants. When not enough
antioxidants are available to remove the free radicals, many diseases can occur, such as cancers,
cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson's disease, etc. Recent studies have shown that using natural antioxidants as
a supplement in chemotherapy can decrease the amount of oxidative damage. Some of these natural
antioxidants include ascorbic acid, tocopherol, and epigallocatechin gallate; they can be found in certain cherry
extracts.
Almonds
Similar to cherries, strawberries, and raspberries, almonds are also rich in phenolics. Almonds have a high
oxygen radical absorbing capacity (ORAC), which is another indicator of being rich in antioxidants.As stated
before, high levels of free radicals are harmful, thus having the capacity to absorb those radicals is greatly
beneficial. The bioactive compounds, polyphenols and anthocyanins, found in berries and cherries are also
present in almonds. Almonds also contain nonflavonoid and flavonoid compounds, which contribute to the
antioxidant properties of almonds. Flavonoids are a group of structurally related compounds that are arranged in
a specific manner and can be found in all vascular plants on land. They also contribute to the antioxidant
properties of almonds. Some of the nonflavonoid compounds present are protocatechuic, vanillic, and p-
hydroxybenzoic acids. Flavonoid compounds that can be found in the skin of the almond are flavanols,
dihydroflavonols, and flavanones.
Plums
Of all of the different species of stone fruits, plums are the richest in antioxidants and phenolic compounds. The
total antioxidant capacity (TAC) varies within each fruit, but in plums, TAC is much higher in the skin than in the
flesh of the fruit.
Apricots
Apricots are high in carotenoids, which play a key role in light absorption during development. Carotenoids are
the pigments that give the pulp and peel of apricots and other Prunus fruits their yellow and orange colors.
Moreover, it is an essential precursor for vitamin A, which is especially important for vision and the immune
system in humans. Moreover, these fruits are quite rich in phenolic substances, including catechin, epicatechin, p
-coumaric acid, caffeic acid, and ferulic acid.[30][31]
Peaches and nectarines
Similar to the plum, peaches and nectarines also have higher TAC in the skin than in the flesh. They also contain
moderate levels of carotenoids and ascorbic acid. Peaches and nectarines are orange and yellow in color, which
can be attributed to the carotenoids present. Ascorbic acid is important in hydroxylation reactions, such as
collagen synthesis, de novo synthesis of bone and cartilage, and wound healing. Ascorbic acid is vitamin C,
which is essential for repairing tissues and absorbing iron.
Pests and diseases
Cherries are prone to gummosis.
Various Prunus species are winter hosts of the Damson-hop aphid, Phorodon humuli, which is destructive to
hops Humulus lupulus just at the time of their maturity, so plum trees should not be grown in the vicinity of hop
fields.
some form of the word a loan from a pre-Greek language of Asia Minor, related to Phrygian.
The first use of Prunus as a genus name was by Carl Linnaeus in Hortus Cliffortianus of 1737, which went on to
become Species Plantarum. In the latter, Linnaeus attributes the word to "Varr.", who it is assumed must be
Marcus Terentius Varro.
Cherry wood is valued for its rich colour and straight grain in manufacturing fine furniture, particularly desks,
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tables and chairs.
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ANY MEMBER
IS WELCOME TO LUNCH
On Mondays and Fridays usually some us stay for lunch and/or a cuppa at the end of the morning turning session. Bring
your own lunch, or for $1 get a pie from the freezer and heat it in the oven, or just have a cuppa. Sometimes we talk
about woodwork but more often we just solve ‘the problems of the world’.
Hartley
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Sunday 11th August at the WWC clubroom. This social event
went off without a hitch with sixteen humans turning up to eat,
drink, chat and generally be merry. Sausages started at
around 12pm with more than enough to go around - I think
most people had at least two. Several of us then went strait to
the ample selection of deserts only to be told off by the ladies
who had appointed themselves ‘the guardians’. Apparently
one must wait an appropriate amount of time to let ones lunch
settle - there was no
argument (nobody brave
enough) so we just
waited, and waited until we were given permission to indulge.
There was some energetic discussion
about having more social events at the
club particularly around the frequency, ie:
bi-monthly, quarterly etc. Also, it was noted
that it would be nice if more people
attended. More discussion slated for the
next general meeting.
It was nice to see some new members
attending, they said that it was a a great
way to get to know members outside of the
normal workshop situation.
Thanks must be given to Tony Stephens
for organizing the event, without Tony and
his social committee these sort of things
may not occur. Also thanks to the ladies for
bringing in the tasty desserts and to Brian
for his considerable talent on the BBQ.
AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL
Chef and sausage sizzler
extraordinaire Brian did a great job on
the BBQ as usual.
This old codger couldn’t keep his
hands of the food either! No
wonder he is smiling.
A selection of the goodies brought in by the ladies.
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