Mark Maleski
Administrator
The SAPFM Chesapeake Chapter held our 2nd meeting on 12 Nov 2011 at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with 33 people in attendance. Our agenda was divided into four areas: (1) chapter business, (2) working groups, (3) show and tell, and (4) our featured presentation from Chuck Bender.
Chapter president Bert Bleckwenn kicked off the meeting with an announcement that our spring 2012 meeting has already been scheduled for Saturday, 21 April at the J Gibson McIlvain Lumber Company in White Marsh, MD (~20 miles NE of Baltimore). Don Williams will be the featured speaker/demonstrator. After a few more announcements, it was onto the working groups.
Fred Walker presented a proposal for the formation of a new working group, focused on the methodology of reproducing a museum piece. Fred suggested that Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is a likely source for the ultimate piece to be measured and reproduced, as in his experience they have been willing and generous with their time when contacted by serious period furniture makers. He also explained that they have a vast warehouse of period pieces to study. He offered to lead a preparation session with any interested participants to choose a type of piece to reproduce, discuss the piece ahead of a visit to the museum, lead a group trip to the museum for the purpose of photographing and measuring it, and then producing plans as a group. A signup sheet was distributed (and quickly filled in) at the meeting; anyone not at the meeting but otherwise interested in this working group should contact Fred directly.
Next, Fred led a report-out of the Benjamin Randolph Chippendale Chair working group. Fred has been leading 10 others in the construction of a B. Randolph chair housed in the PMA (and described as a masterpiece in Fine Points). Below is a photo of Fred?s reproduction of this chair.
Chapter president Bert Bleckwenn kicked off the meeting with an announcement that our spring 2012 meeting has already been scheduled for Saturday, 21 April at the J Gibson McIlvain Lumber Company in White Marsh, MD (~20 miles NE of Baltimore). Don Williams will be the featured speaker/demonstrator. After a few more announcements, it was onto the working groups.
Fred Walker presented a proposal for the formation of a new working group, focused on the methodology of reproducing a museum piece. Fred suggested that Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is a likely source for the ultimate piece to be measured and reproduced, as in his experience they have been willing and generous with their time when contacted by serious period furniture makers. He also explained that they have a vast warehouse of period pieces to study. He offered to lead a preparation session with any interested participants to choose a type of piece to reproduce, discuss the piece ahead of a visit to the museum, lead a group trip to the museum for the purpose of photographing and measuring it, and then producing plans as a group. A signup sheet was distributed (and quickly filled in) at the meeting; anyone not at the meeting but otherwise interested in this working group should contact Fred directly.
Next, Fred led a report-out of the Benjamin Randolph Chippendale Chair working group. Fred has been leading 10 others in the construction of a B. Randolph chair housed in the PMA (and described as a masterpiece in Fine Points). Below is a photo of Fred?s reproduction of this chair.