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Peach State Chapter SAPFM Meeting

Ronnie Young – Spice Boxes

March 29-30, 2024

Chattanooga, TN

Chattanooga Woodcraft Store

5824 Brainerd Rd 37411

Saturday-Sunday, March 29-30 2024– 9:00AM- 4PM

This will be a two day presentation by Ron Young on March 29-30.  The topic for this meeting will be the history and fabrication of spice boxes.  
Ronnie is a SAPFM Cartouche award winner from the Society of American Period Furniture .

OK.  First, this is no mistake and no we are not abandoning Peach State.  We are branching out to attract potential members in southeast TN and far north GA.  The Chattanooga Woodcraft is a very accommodating location and has plenty of room. 

Depending on how this goes, we may have more meetings in Chattanooga.

For those of us in GA, there are many attractions that are worth your time.  Lots of shopping if the wife wants to join us.

The first day of the meeting will be a discussion of the history and construction of the Pennsylvania Spice Box and the Massachusetts Valuable Box. There will be three completed boxes for the attendees to examine and full size drawings of two of the boxes available for purchase. We will also discuss available reference material and sources of supply.

We will have a completed, but not assembled, Spice Box so that attendees can see the way in which the boxes and their hidden drawers are assembled and what types of jigs can be used to speed assembly and accuracy. The use of power tools and traditional hand tools will be demonstrated for box construction.

On the second day we will look at box decoration including line and berry inlay and the tools needed to do this work using both hand and power tools. Finally we will have a short discussion on appropriate finishes and a question and an answer discussion.

This meeting will be open to the public and hopefully attract new members to SAPFM. Copies of the Journal and other SAPFM information will be made available to view.

Chattanooga has a number of accommodations available within only a mile or two from the Woodcraft store. There are three restaurants in the shopping center where the Woodcraft store is located: Chic Fil A, Mexican Café, and Pancake Pantry. Your family, if they travel with you, will find Chattanooga full of interesting places to see such as:

Lookout Mountain Military Park

Rock City

Ruby Falls

Downtown:

The Tennessee Aquarium

IMAX Theater

Children’s Museum

Medal of Honor Museum

Several Art Galleries and the Hunter Museum

A wide selection of small boutique restaurants

Please plan to join us for a great program and fellowship.