Vol 20 - Spring 2014 - Madison Area Technical College
Transcription
Vol 20 - Spring 2014 - Madison Area Technical College
VOLUME 20 SPRING, 2014 W O O D M OV E S E-News from the Cabinetmaking & Millwork Program at Madison College HEADED FOR WASHINGTON D.C. Our students have been working on an interesting piece of history. Last fall, we were approached by Bob Ross at Forest Products Lab, located here in Madison, to see if we could build a reception desk for the U.S. Forest Service building in Washington D.C. The desk was to be made from re-purposed materials: southern yellow pine glulams from one of the first ever laminated timber structures in North America and white oak from the navy minesweepers built in Sturgeon Bay, WI. We received the materials in December and were able to resaw the timber before winter set in. The SYP timbers, which had supported a building for 75 years until a fire damaged the building, looked fresh as the day the wood was harvested. Our students participated in the design and construction of this desk, and perhaps will someday take their kids to see it in Washington D.C. The desk will soon make its way to its final resting spot, within eyesight of the Washington Monument. In this issue: Program News & Upcoming dates (Page 2) Recent donations Building a woodworking family Euro Rangate 2014 (Page 3) Stiles solid wood seminar Thursday, 4/24 (Flier/Page 4) Above: Resawing the laminated timber with our Woodmizer. Below: Students with the soon to be completed reception desk. FREE SOLID WOOD SEMINAR—APRIL 24TH Back by popular demand, representatives from Stiles Machinery will present at our third and final seminar of the year. Joining Peter Van Dyke will be David Hise and Dave Schmidt, both from the High Point, N.C. office of Stiles Machinery. Peter will discuss the modern rough mill; David Hise will conduct knife grinding and moulder set up demonstrations; and Dave Schmidt will share his tooling expertise. If previous seminars are any indication, this seminar will surely fill up quickly. Participants can attend free of charge, but must pre-register. Details can be found on the last page of this newsletter. Lunch is included. PROGRAM SUPPORT GROWS In an era of stagnant or decreasing budgets, we have benefitted from great industry support. This spring, Graco donated an Air-Assisted Airless spray system valued at $3,000. This system will allow us to expand our educational offerings using waterborne finishes. Stiles Machinery recently held a drawing and Madison college was selected to receive a cut-off saw or $4000 discount on any of their Ironwood line of machines. We selected a line boring machine. Recently two area manufacturers donated several thousand dollars worth of panel products for students to work with. No donation is too small. We thank the following list of donors since last July: 3M Applied Adhesives AquaCoat AWFS Bessey Carley Wood Associates Fred Bull Graco Quickscrews Rangate Stiles machinery Sveneers Ceramic Industrial Coatings Colonial Saw Colorspec Franklin International TJ Hale Veneer Tech WCA Wood Design FREE EMPLOYMENT LISTINGS AVAILABLE ON TECHCONNECT Madison College, in collaboration with the other 15 Wisconsin Technical Colleges, has created a job posting website - Wisconsin TechConnect. Employers can post an ad free of charge via this link: http://www.wisconsintechconnect.com/ Graduates who sign up for this service automatically receive e -mail notifications of your posting. Here are a few tips on using the Tech Connect website: Check out our Program Website www.madisoncollege.edu M Y WO O D WO R K I N G FA MI LY I went to my first trade show in 1999. Since then, I have been to at least one major trade show annually, including IWF in Atlanta, AWFS in Las Vegas, Ligna in Hannover, and most recently, Fensterbau in Nuremberg (see page 3). When I first started, I didn’t know a single person. Through the years, I have developed an extended family of friends. This helped me greatly over the past several months as I took on the monumental task of revising a textbook—Modern Cabinetmaking. As one colleague told me, it’s the last good book out there, and only about 25% of it is still relevant. I’ve called in a lot of favors to update this book and personally have invested over 1500 hours in the project. This year has been intense, and I never would have made it this far without the support of my family, both close and far. To all those who answered my call for images, or took the time to review my manuscript, thank you! To my students who posed for many of the pictures, thank you! An to my colleague, brother and close friend who has kept the program running as I focused my non-teaching hours on the book, words cannot express my appreciation. DONATIONS TRULY MATTER We are grateful for the numerous donations over the past several years which have supported a number of class activities and scholarships. If you have something to donate, be it materials, money or time, please contact us. Your support makes a difference in the lives of our students! 4/24/14 Solid Wood Seminar 4/30/14 SkillsUSA-WI Cabinetmaking Competition 5/13/14 Advisory Ctte. Meeting 5/16/14 Graduation 6/3/14 New student orientation 7/17/14 New student orientation PSend L E A Syour E Scomments E N D Y O Uand R Csuggestions O M M E N T Sto:A N D SUGGESTIONS TO: You must first register your company. Upon registering, you will create a password. After registering, login again and fill out the template for the job posting. Patrick Molzahn Jobs are typically posted within 2-3 business days. Madison, WI 53704 If you have any problems or questions, contact Patty Geske at 608/246-6401 placement@madisoncollege.edu or Rochelle Wanner at (608) 243-4273 rwanner@madisoncollege.edu UPCOMING DATES E-mail: pmolzahn@madisoncollege.edu 1701 Wright Street Phone: 608/246-6842 Fax: 608/246-6880 www.madisoncollege.edu Visit Wood Moves on for current news RANGATE EURO TOUR 2014 I recently had the opportunity to spend 10 days travelling through Europe with a group of window and door producers from the U.S.A. and Canada. Organized by Rangate, the first leg of the tour included visits to several companies in Italy, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. The final 4 days were spent attending Fensterbau/Holz-Handwerk in Nuremberg, Germany. This is the second largest show in Europe for wood manufacturers. With 12 halls and over 100,000 visitors, this show is more than four times the size of the largest North American trade show for the wood industry! Thanks to a travel grant, some personal funds, and the generous assistance of Greg Godbout of Rangate and Cristian Zuani of Zuani tools, I was able to participate in this tour. Below is a summary of the companies we visited. Our journey started in Italy with tours of two window manufacturers. Fratelli Luchesa is a 15 member company with seven brothers participating in the family enterprise. They are located in the mountains surrounding beautiful Lake Guarda, in northern Italy. We then travelled to Leonardi, a family operation producing windows and doors for residences. In what seems to be customary in Italy, each tour ended with a sampling of Italian food and wine. Our final factory tour was to a company located in The fourth day included visits to Dalovice in the Czech Republic. two small shops, one in Austria Bohemia Lignum is one of the largest window manufacturers and one in Germany. Both in Czech. Thanks to Jaroslav shops are producing windows Soukup, of Soukup Machinery, certified by Passivhaus. The first, Freisinger Fensterbau, was we were able to tour their ultra clean, automated manufactura 15 member firm located just ing facility. After visiting the south of the German border. company, we had a walking tour They showed us the evolution of a nearby spa town, Karlovy of their window designs over Vary, home to many beautiful the past decade. historic buildings, with a lot of windows and doors! In addition to window manufacturers, we spent several hours at Zuani. A family operation located in Rovereto, Zuani is one of the premier manufactures of custom tooling for the door and window market world wide. Their facility was immaculate, and brothers Cristian and Thomas were generous with their time and willingness to share the entire production process. Constantly innovating, the Zuani’s shared recent trends and solutions in the industry. It is a rare opportunity to be able to access shops the way we did. Even more valuable were the discussions and sharing of ideas and observations by my fellow participants after the tours. All of this would never have happened without the incredible organization of Greg Godbout and Chris Chan. This was their third European tour in as many years, and they are already busy making plans for next year. Visit them Rangate.com to learn more. We then travelled to HolzWin GMBH, which has a much different approach to producing windows. An offshoot of their modular home business, they started building Passivhaus certified windows two year’s ago using a patented assembly system which greatly reduces the amount of machinery required for production. The latest in woodworking technology Tooling. Moulding. Modern Rough Mill. The woodworking industry is competitive. Chances are that your peers are discussing the merits of adding new equipment to their shops and you’re wondering whether it’s the right time for you. Join us on Thursday, April 24 at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, WI for an up close look at the latest moulder techniques. This unique experience will provide valuable information whether you are considering your first machine, ready to upgrade, or have been running a moulder for years. There will also be lab demonstrations for the moulder and grinder, and classroom sessions for the modern rough mill. Event Schedule Tool Room David Hise, Stiles Field Service Representative • Process • Organization • Knife grinding demo Moulder David Hise, Stiles Field Service Representative • Machine overview • Types • Process Moulder Tooling Dave Schmidt, Stiles e-Tech Regional Manager SE • Types of knives and uses • Types of tooling • Grinding wheels and uses • Tool measurement • Template making Modern Rough Mill Peter Van Dyke, Stiles Product Specialist • Material selection • Thickness sizing • Defect Detection • Ripping • Cross cutting • Moulding • Material handling and flow • Optimization When & Where Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Madison College 1701 Wright Street Madison, WI 53704 For questions about Madison College, contact Patrick at 608.246.6842. Register Today Although there is no cost to participate, registration is required to reserve your seat. Lunch is provided. For more information regarding the event, contact Peter Van Dyke at 616.446.3373 or pvandyke@stilesmachinery.com. To register, visit www.stilesmachinery.com/events. Stiles Machinery Inc. 3965 44th St. SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512 p 616.698.7500 f 616.698.9411 www.stilesmachinery.com © 2014 Stiles Machinery Inc.