The March Meeting of the Grahamstown Woodworkers was held in the Design & Technology Centre at St Andrew's College.

Members stood in silence in remembrance of one of our members, Grant Hillman, who passed away recently.

The next meeting of the woodturning sub-group will be at Wouter Holleman's workshop at 17:30 on Tuesday 22 March. Contact Wouter 083-712-9963 w.holleman@saiab.ac.za for details.

A visit to the EagleHout furniture factory in Bedford is being planned for Saturday 16 April. More details to follow.

Andrew Stevens then gave a talk on the making of woodworking joints using hand tools

A Powerpoint presentation of diagrams of the main woodworking joints can be downloaded.

Andrew Stevens and his table full of examples	Butt joints
Simple lap joints	More examples
Mitre and T joints	Dovetail joints - pins on left, tails on right
Inspecting a saw blade before sharpening	Sharpening a saw blade
Tool for setting saw teeth	Use of a chisel
Using a chisel on a narrow mortice	Beautiful folding bowl brought by Rodney Scheepers