An Archive of the Club's Meetings and Other Events
The May 2017 meeting program will be at new Woodcraft store presented by Dan Habjanetz of Woodcraft. For the May 13th meeting at Woodcraft in Canonsburg, store manager Dan Habjanetz will provide demonstrations of several Festool products including the Domino joinery system, track saw, Kapex miter saw and orbital sander.
Continue reading: Festool Tool Review ...The April 2017 meeting program on Windsor Chair, Craig Smith will present. Please join us for our April meeting where the program will be presented by local Windsor chair maker and teacher, Craig Smith.
Craig is excited by the time-tested engineering that goes into the centuries-old Windsor design and will share some of the whys and wherefores of material selection,
Continue reading: Windsor Chairs ...Danny Williams, a native of southern West Virginia, became interested at an early age in the unique history and traditions of the southern Appalachian mountains. This led him to the Appalachain dulcimer, a simple stringed instrument especially suited to hardworking rural people who might not have a lot of time to create music,
Continue reading: Building a Dulcimer ...Elmer Nahum, one of our new Program Directors, has suggested a series of programs on basic skills that all woodworkers need and various ways to achieve them. We’re going to start this series with the mortise and tenon joint, a basic building block necessary for many woodworking projects. Through lecture and demonstration we will describe three ways to cut this classic joint in both the simple 90 degree version as well as angled mortise and tenon joints.
Continue reading: Mortise & Tenon Joints: Three Ways To Cut Them ...For the December 2016 meeting, we would like to have multiple WPW members participate in a presentation for a favorite woodworking tip. The tip can be about any woodworking topic and should be presented in a time frame of 1 to 7 minutes with a few minutes allowance for questions.
Continue reading: 2016 Tips and Tricks ...Bring in your Creations.
Our speaker for our special Friday evening meeting will be woodworker, teacher, and author Alan Turner, the founder of the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop. Alan is in Pittsburgh to teach a two-day class on how to dovetail a drawer, and more importantly, how to properly fit it into a carcass for a piston-like fit.
Continue reading: Drawer Building Evening Session ...