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Purcellville Facility | Dave Painter | Purcellville | - Next workday is Saturday, July 6th starting at 9am
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Leesburg Facility | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg | - Next workday is Saturday, July 13th 9am-2pm (or later!)
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3D Printing | Scott Silvers | Leesburg & Purcellville | - New tables in 3D printing are almost done, just working on some finishing touches.
- Resin printers will be moved upstairs in the next few days.
- Things still to do:
- Walls: Remove/press in wall anchors, patch walls, repaint
- Hang Shelves
We will be finishing up the new tables in the Leesburg 3D printing room and could use a lot of help moving things around. If you are interested in helping out with this, please contact Scott Silvers.
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Arts & Crafts Area in Purcellville | Ken Fuentecilla & Dawn Martin | Purcellville Lower Building | - Both stewards have been working on cleaning & setting up the new room, and it's looking fantastic!
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Arts, Crafts & Sewing Area in Leesburg | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg | The Leesburg Arts, Craft & Sewing area is looking for a co-steward or main steward!- Sewing classes taught by Amy Copley in mid June were a hit. keep an eye out for more.
- Amy has started holding sewing socials in Purcellville on different Wednesdays! Check the calendar for more info. I've heard it's been a packed house.
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Big Red CNC | Brass Hess & Jonathan White | Leesburg | |
Big Blue | Jonathan White | Purcellville | - Also behaving, and in Jim's words "all good!"
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Blacksmithing | Adam "Squirrl" McClintock & Jim Waldron | Purcellville Lower Building | - The weather is getting slightly warmer, so keep an eye out for classes here and there.
- one of the forge burners is not working correctly.
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Blast/Paint/ Powder Coating | Evin Grano | Purcellville | - Evin will be teaching regularly scheduled classes this month and next! If you ever wanted to learn about Sandblasting, powder Coating and more, now is the time.
- Leesburg classes will be coming soon?
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Ceramics | Bo Wernick | Purcellville Lower Building |
- The ceramics shop has completed several classes this month including a unique "spiral bowl" class taught by member and ceramics extraordinaire Kate Amstutz.
- Special thanks to Kate and Eleanor for fixing the kiln last month!
- Look for more wheel classes coming up in July and August on the calendar. We have a waitlist of people who will be contacted before the public announcement.
- We are also planning a "garden ceramics" class where we make watering spikes and plant signs like these https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Terracotta+Watering+Spike.
  - If you have some class ideas you would like to see, please post the suggestions to the #ceramics channel and we will try to get them on the calendar.
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Cosplay Area | Maggie & Jason Gilligan | Leesburg | - Have you seen the new room?? It's looking amazing! We will need help during the next workday hanging a mirror and some paitningpainting.
- We are also in need of instructors for cosplay! Are you interested? It can be as simple as a mask class, or how to finish a 3D Print for cosplay.
- Cosplay Night is every Thursday in Leesburg 6:30-8:30pm
- We will be hosting a props or miniature painting meetup every other month on Wednesdays! Just a time to hang out and paint together. The first meetup is this month on Weds the 17th.
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Electronics | Mark Millsap | Leesburg | - Electronics has been meeting during Electronics night (every other Thursday, the next one is tomorrow July 11th at 7pm) to plan out the new Electronics Room downstairs! Are you interested? Do you have ideas? If so, just show up and participate or join the #electronics channel
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Gardening | Mary Waldron & Jennifer Chu | Leesburg & Purcellville | - Contact the stewards if you are interested in assisting at either site!
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HP Plotter | Randy Holland | Purcellville Randy Holland was appointed as Steward at the Feb. board meeting |
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HVAC Filters | Dean Williamson | Leesburg | - Dean is always on top of this! Thank you Dean!!
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Laser Cutters | John Dubelko & Jessee Maloney & John Carter | Leesburg & Purcellville | - We said goodbye to the Universal Laser last Month! It was part of a trade for the new BN2-20. Still sad to see it go.
- John Carter attached a new quieter compressor to the Nova 51 in Leesburg, and it's working beautifully now! It's the same as the one used in Purcellville on the Nova 24, and you can actually talk using a normal volume when it's running. It's a huge quality of life improvement for the Leesburg Main Room. Thank you John!
- The laser Cutters are potentially looking for an Still additonal steward to fill a spot that may be empty soon. Are you interested?
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Metal Shop in Leesburg & Tormach | Brad Hess | Leesburg | - Do you know how to make jewelry? Do you like to do stamped jewelry? Would you like to teach?? If so, please let scheduling know!
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Metal Shop in Purcellville | Dave Painter &
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Plasma Cutter | Jim Waldron | Purcellville |
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Printmaking | John Carter | Leesburg | - Printmaking classes are slowly showing up on the calendar! Keep an eye out because they look amazing.
- New Makersmiths Printmaking Studio to start being built out once the Electronincs Room moves downstairs.
- New equipment is being purchased and has started showing up as part of a proposal put forth to the board in March. We are very excited!
- The lego blockprinting workshop was a success and the kids made so much cool art! Thanks to everyone who came out.
- Would you like to teach a printmaking class? Let's us know.
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Purcellville Green Room | OPEN | Purcellville | |
Purcellville Lower Classroom | John Dubelko | Purcellville | |
Purcellville Woodshop | Dave Painter | Purcellville |
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Snack Area | J Wang | Leesburg | - what kind of snacks should we have?
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Stained Glass Tools | Ken Fuentecilla | Purcellville | - Ken was approved as the steward of the Stained Glass Red Tools at May's BOD meeting.
- The ring saw and grinders are now Red Tools and you will be required to have a sign off to use them
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Sublimation Printer | New Steward: Diane Bollinger | Leesburg | - Classes have been happening consistently and everyone is loving the new machine and its capabilities. Have you signed up yet?
- A new Hat Heat Press was purchased and can be used for sublimating, heat transfer vinyl and just attaching patches to hats! It's also great for anything small and curved.
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Roland Flatbed UV Printer & BN2-20 Printer
| Diane Bollinger & Jessee Maloney & John CarterLeesburg
| The UV printer was moved to it's new home on the back wall in Leesburg ! Come take a look! | - It will be sharing a computer with the BN2-20, though it shouldn't impact it's use. One thing to keep in mind: make sure you send to the correct printer! The LEF200 is the top queue and the BN2-20 is the bottom.
- We learned that the machine should be left on from now on, so please only turn off the filter and vacuum table, not the machine itself.
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Vacuum Formers | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg | |
Vinyl Cutter & Cricuts | OPEN | Leesburg & Purcellville | |
Welding | Jim Waldron & John Johnson | Purcellville | |
Woodshop in Leesburg | Mike Dewan | Leesburg | - Message from Mike Dewan: Please clean up the woodshop when you finish!!! Recent members have left with dust, wood chips, and tools over all surfaces. If the trash can is 2/3 or more full please empty it and place a new trash bag in the can. The woodshop steward does not have cleaning up after you as one of his responsibilities.
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Woodturning` | Ken Fuentecilla & Bryan Boston | Leesburg | - First woodturning bowl classes were a huge success! Keep an eye on the calendar for future classes and the #watchamaketoday channel for classes examples.
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