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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 - wonthaggiwoodcrafters@gmail.com

Website - www.wonthaggiwoodcrafters.com.au

Facebook - www.facebook.com/wonthaggiwoodcraftersinc

Secretary - woodiessec@gmail.com

Newsletter - woodies.newsletter@gmail.com

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 woodies.newsletter@gmail.com

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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