An Archive of the Club's Meetings and Other Events
This month’s program will be our annual Show and Tell program. It will feature the works of our members. This once per year gathering lets the members of our woodworking community come together to experience the talent and effort of all club members. At this one meeting you will be able to see the full spectrum of woodworking from small table top items to large floor sized items.
Continue reading: 2014 Annual Show n’ Tell ...Our October meeting will be a field trip to the Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington Pa.
Note new price info for spouses and deadline extension to Sept. 28th below!
Touchstone is a unique three-seasons craft school in the beautiful Laurel Highlands. This unique craft school includes contemporary and experimental techniques in addition to traditional and historic methods in disciplines such as blacksmithing,
Continue reading: Field Trip to Touchstone Center for Crafts ...WPW Member Elmer Nahum will discuss the usefulness and limitations of the Stanley 55 and 45 combination planes. Hopefully, we will teach you how not to curse at these sometimes temperamental tools and show their use for ploughing, joinery and mouldings. The Stanley 55 can help you create numerous complex custom mouldings for furniture,
Continue reading: Stanley Combination Planes and Sea Shell Sculpture ...Hopefully, you’ve been able to save the date of July 26, 2014 for our annual picnic, because we have a real treat in store for you. WPW club member Al Zamba and his wife Mary have once again graciously and generously offered us the use of their beautiful grounds for our picnic.
Continue reading: Summer Picnic 2014 ...This program will conducted by the Three Rivers Tool Collectors. A program on boring/drilling, value of old tools. There will be the opportunity to buy and sell your old tools.
Many of the members of their club will attend.
As usual, coffee and donuts available starting at 09:30.
Continue reading: A Visit from the Three Rivers Tool Collectors ...April’s program will be presented by Mark Mooney. He will give a talk on
Craftsman Style furniture building.
Design Elements in Greene and Greene Furniture
Mark P. Mooney
Henry and Charles Greene were architects in Pasadena California in the early 1900s. They designed not only magnificent Arts and Crafts style houses but the furniture to compliment it as well.
Continue reading: Craftsman/Greene & Greene Furniture ...Our March program will be on sharpening. However, this time we are making it interactive. Members will walk around to different stations and have the opportunity to see 4 or 5 different types of sharpening. We hope this will be an interesting way to learn new skills and interact with other members.
Continue reading: Sharpening Live! ...John Schlueter is going to do a program on an alternative building of a raised panel door.
Donuts and coffee start at 09:30.
