Can you pick out the replaced ship’s-wheel handle?
Donn Hamm, SaddleBrooke Woodworkers Club
The SaddleBrooke Woodworkers Club has many members with a wide variety of skills and ambitions from SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO. Our collective focus is on completing our individual projects and helping our SaddleBrooke neighbors when possible. We always do this with a “safety first” approach.
On the subject of safety, we have had safety-review workshops and, to date, the SaddleBrooke Woodworkers Club has had no reported injuries since the club’s beginning! Many projects are being completed in our individual “garage shops,” from built-in cabinets; refinishing projects; making gifts for our friends, grandkids, and family; and making very creative wood carvings and woodturnings.
In assisting our neighbors, there have been several requests that have been asked of club members, and we have helped whenever it has been within our ability. We have completed refinishing projects, such as the SaddleBrooke One clubhouse Christmas nutcrackers, repairing several cracked wooden items, fabricating jigs and fixtures for other SaddleBrooke artists, and replacing parts of a memento.
The story of the lost memento part was for Tim, one of our new SaddleBrooke neighbors. Tim recently discovered that an important piece of his father’s Navy remembrance had been lost in his move to SaddleBrooke. Tim asked if one of the SaddleBrooke woodworkers could make the missing ship’s-wheel handle to match the ones in the rest of the display. One of our club members who specializes in woodturning volunteered to make the oak replacement.
Recently, at the SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO Arts and Recreation Fair, SaddleBrooke Woodworkers got more than 100 signatures on a petition in favor of a community workshop. Many who signed the petition assumed we already had one!
The proposed community woodshop will be a great addition to the community and much needed to match the amenities in all the surrounding 55-and-older communities. It is estimated that there are several hundred garage woodshops in SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO. The skill level of our woodworkers ranges from beginners to professional. We are all looking forward to being able to communicate, collaborate, and share our skills and knowledge with other woodworkers in a common workshop.
The SaddleBrooke Woodworkers Club, for all of SaddleBrooke One and SaddleBrooke TWO, meets every first Tuesday of the month in the SaddleBrooke TWO Saguaro Room at 2 p.m. All woodworkers are invited.