BALTIMORE, MD
Maryland Artisan Guild, LLC
www.mdartisanguild.com
Club Description: The Maryland Artisan Guild LLC provides marketing, public relations and management services to artists working in all media.
We are a new business and we are looking for more clients to join our ranks. Since we are artists too, we understand that craftsmen would rather be creating. That’s why we handle all the tasks they don’t have time to do.
We will bring their work to shows, assist them with Internet and social media exposure, provide them with an e-commerce platform and look for ways to publicize their work to maximize sales.
Seminar Description: We will be demonstrating how to sharpen various turning tools using a Wolverine Jig. You will also learn how to use Metal Leafing and chemical patinas to enhance your woodworking.
Chesapeake Woodturners
www.chesapeakewoodturners.com
Club Description: The Chesapeake Woodturners has been a host or a participant in many outreach activities. Some of these include: the Mid-Atlantic Regional Symposium, Maryland Federation of Art Gallery Shows, the International Turning Exchange, Savage Mill Gallery Shows, Quiet Waters Park Gallery Shows, The Wood Working Shows and Montpelier Mansion Gallery Show. Members contributed to the success of a 2001 national show, Turning Since 1930, and in 2004 in Right at Home: American Studio Furniture.
Community projects include donating Christmas ornaments turned by our club members for display at the Government House, the residence of the Governor of Maryland, during the holiday season. The ornaments were turned from native Maryland hardwoods. Chesapeake Woodturners also donated stamp handles to be used in the souvenir passport documentation for the year-long Celebration of Annapolis. The stamps were used to help commemorate the 350th anniversary of the founding of Annapolis.
Seminar Description: Members of the Chesapeake Woodturners will be demonstrating turning many different items including: a lidded wooden box, a small long stemmed goblet, a natural edge goblet, and a natural edge vessel. You will also be able to view demonstrations on basic woodturning.
Mark Supik Woodturning Workshops
www.marksupikco.com
Club Description: Mark Supik, a graduate from Maryland Institute’s sculpture program has been turning wood since 1975. As a full time professional woodworker, Mark owns and operates Mark Supik & Co., a woodturning business in Baltimore City. Using industrial lathes, some from the turn of the last century, Mark, his son, nephew, and niece turn functional architectural pieces, furniture, stair parts and wooden tap handles for regional microbreweries. Mark is a member of the American Association of Woodturners Professional Outreach Program.
One weekend a month, Mark Supik & Co. becomes a woodturning school. With a class size limited to 6 students, each student is provided with safety equipment, an individual lathe and set of tools to use during the workshop. Projects for these classes include basic spindle turning projects, bowl turning, making your own beer tap, creating fiber arts tools, end grain, natural edged bowl turning and woodturning with your child.
Seminar Description: Beer Taps 101 – You make your own beer, now you can make your own beertap! Use your basic woodturning skills, simple hardware and a few tips to get started. Need a custom label on your wooden handle? We’ll show you how to do that too!
Spindles, Making a Perfect Copy – Watch “between center” turning techniques used by professional turners for centuries for spindle production. Learn the steps for producing that one missing baluster or broken chair leg.
Fiber Tools and more for the Fiber Artist – You can knit and crochet, and now even beginners can make their own custom fiber tools. Darning Eggs, Nostepiness, Drop Spindles, and Knitting Needles.
Woodturning, The Right Start – Did you learn woodturning in Junior High woodshop class? There may be an easier way. Basic between center turning for beginners (or for those who are ready to begin again).
Natural Edged Turning – Starting with green wood, Mark will turn an end-grained natural edged bowl, simple weed pots and mushrooms.
Baltimore Area Woodturners
www.baltimoreareaturners.org
Club Description: The Baltimore Area Woodturners offer hands-on workshops. We invite you to participate in “Turning for the Troops” program, where we make pens and send them to our service men and women!
Seminar Description: We will be creating fine writing instruments, talk about wood turning basics and show you how to make a lidded container.
The Woodpeckers
Club Description: We are a group on passionate woodworkers in Northern Baltimore County. Since our inception in 1958, we have been meeting to increase our woodworking knowledge though visits to local venues, classes and presentations. During each Holiday Season a group of our members make toys and deliver them to local hospitals for the enjoyment of the children who do not get to go home for to celebrate.
Seminar Description:
Friday & Sunday: De-cupping a Board - Demonstrating how to take the cup out of a board when you can’t plane it.
Friday: Wood Plane Making – A demonstration of how to make your own wooden planes.
Friday: Card Scraper Sharpening & Use – An easy way to sharpen card scrapers and how to use them.
Saturday: Rubbing out a finish – Learn how to “finish and finish” to create the authentic look of period furniture.
Saturday & Sunday: Wedged Tenons – How to create incredibly strong joints with wedged tenons.
Sunday: Sharpening Plane Blades – Quickly achieve a razor sharp edge on your blades.
School of Annapolis Woodworks
Club Description: The School of Annapolis Woodworkers provides a comprehensive education in the art of woodworking. Courses include woodturning, carving, marquetry, prography, joinery, casework, design, and furniture construction.
Seminar Description: The School will be doing numerous demonstrations including:
1) Showing you how to lay out and properly hold the chisels to make some of the most difficult cuts. 2) Learn step-by-step instructions on how to make a wood box 3) Presenting the art of pen turning and how to make a perfect finish.
Howard County Woodworkers Guild
www.hcwg.org
Club Description: The Howard County Woodworkers Guild has a full woodworking shop open to our members. We also offer special programs including the 4-H Club along with participating in Toys for Tots.
Seminar Description: 1) Turning Tops for Tots - The club will be turning small tops and having children decorate them with colored markers. We will then give these away at the show! 2) Marquetry – Fan and Panels - Part A: We will be demonstrating making federal style fans for furniture and tea caddies. Part B: Making 2 & 4 way book matched panels for small boxes.
Annapolis Woodworker’s Guild
www.awwg.org
Club Description: The Annapolis Woodworkers Guild formed to preserve and teach woodworking. We are proud to be a guild that supports charities. Each year we supply hand-made toys for children of all ages at Sarah’s House, and are currently in the process of building new display cabinets for the Benson-Hammond House in Lithicum, MD.
Seminar Description: Learn how to Shellac! If you’re not familiar with the term, we will be explaining where it comes from and what it means. We will be showing techniques for applying shellac to get a beautiful finish on your project.
Our members will also be giving tips and teaching techniques on hand-planing. Learn proper care and maintenance for hand planes.
Arundel Carvers
NEW ENGLAND
New England School of Architectural Woodworking
Club Description: NESAW offers career training for cabinetmakers and night/weekend/Summer workshop for beginning and intermediate woodworkers. NESAW also offers after-school and weekend programs for children.
Seminar Description: Attendees will learn how to book-match and seam wood veneer.
Central Connecticut Woodturners
Club Description: The Central Connecticut Woodturners (CCW) was founded in 1994 to support the needs of wood turners in the central Connecticut area. Its purpose is to promote a higher standard of excellence in woodturning by providing an ever-expanding source of information and resources to its members.
Seminar Description: CCW will be holding numerous turning demonstrations, these will include: Pens, Vases, Bowls Boxes and Platters! In addition the club will have a display of turned items. Also present will be an 1800’s treadle lathe.
Western Mass Woodturners
Club Description: The Western Mass Woodturners (WMW) was founded in 2011 to support the needs of wood turners in the Western Massachusetts, Northern Connecticut areas. Our purpose is to promote a higher standard of excellence in woodturning by providing and ever expanding source of information and resources to our members.
Seminar description: The WMW will demonstrate turning: Pens, Vases, Bowls, Boxes and Platters. We will also have a display of different turned items and will also have an 1800’s Treadle Lathe present.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Central Indiana Woodworkers
www.CIWW.org
Club Description: The Central Indiana Woodworkers hold meetings monthly with varied presentations and workshops, with the toy-making workshop being one of our favorite, in which we provide nearly 5,000 toys for underprivileged children!
Seminar Description: We will be demonstrating simple scroll-saw patterns for beginners and making toys to give to charity.
Women Woodworkers Guild of Indiana
Club Description: The Women's Woodworking Guild of Indiana is dedicated to assisting women woodworkers to elevate their skill level in various aspects of woodworking and offer exposure to the different kinds of woodworking. In addition, the Guild is committed to contributing to the community by creating pieces for Habitat for Humanity and projects to benefit others. Our guild member’s interests range from chainsaw carving, wood burning, furniture making, wood turning and unique artistic creations. And, we have fun too!
Seminar Description: 1) We will create decorative panels for your cabinetry or stand alone wall art using a burning technique to add texture or graphics to your work.
2) Creating a puzzle box is fun and easy! Using a bandsaw for puzzle box construction is key.
Barnard Woodworking School
Club Description: My goal is to teach woodworking skills acquired in 35 years experience in making fine furniture and all aspects of woodworking to the professional and hobby woodworking students.
Seminar Description: I will be teaching how to create quadralinear legs using a new method. There are 3 methods that I will be showing to achieve this quatersawn grain on all 4 sides.
International Wood Collectors Society
http://www.woodcollectors.org
Circle City Woodcarvers
KANSAS CITY, KS
Lee’s Summit Woodworkers Guild
www.lswoodguild.com
Club Description: The Lees Summit Woodworkers Guild consists of about 120 active members. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month in a local church. At guild meeting we conduct guild business, have a time of show-and-tell, and a one hour program for a guest speaker. Guest speakers range from local vendors, to guild members, and local professionals that may discuss or demonstrate a woodworking related topic, tool, or technique.
Seminar Description: We will be demonstrating and discussing the following: 1) Turning a Wooden Pen and other Small Items 2) Cutting Dove Tails on the Porter Cable Omni Jig 3) Cutting Corian on the Scroll Saw 4) Carve Wright Show and Tell.
Kansas City Woodturners Club
www.kcwoodturners.org
Northland Woodturners - KC
Heritage School of Woodworking
www.heritagewoodschool.com
The Heritage School of Woodworking works with students in the areas of solid wood construction, hand-cut joinery, steam-bent wood, hand-carved details and much more. Our craftsmen instructors carefully employ centuries-old craft skills to produce award-winning custom furniture, sold throughout North America, featured in fine woodworking publications and selected for the permanent collection of the U.S. White House. Our instructors in the School of Woodworking are award-winning craftsmen with a combined total of nearly a half-century of experience. Our workshops are specifically designed to encourage hands-on instruction with an emphasis on skill building. The facility which houses our woodworking school includes a large teaching area designed and equipped for hand-tool woodworking and the student work stations are complete with a joiner’s workbench and vise, as well as a wide variety of hand tools for students to use to complete their projects.
COLUMBUS, OH
Heart of Ohio Scrollers
http://sites.google.com/site/heartofohioscrollers/home
Club Description: We are a group of people who enjoy using a scroll saw. Our group meets at the Hardwood Store in Enon, OH on the fourth Saturday of every month at 10:00 am. Each second Saturday, we host a program called Open Saw. This is the time when interested people can come to Hardwood to ask questions and practice on one of two saws available. Our group enjoys sharing ideas and encouraging new sawyers.
Seminar Description: 1) Applying pattern to finish cutting 2) 3D Cutting 3) Blades – spiral vs. straight 4) Cutting Plastics.
Central Indiana Chapter of AAW
Columbus Chippers
Central Ohio Woodturners
Woodworkers of Central Ohio
BuildMore Workshop
ST. LOUIS
Show Me Woodturners
www.showmewoodturners.com
Club Description: The Show-Me Woodturners meet the second Thursday of every month. We are active in the community, demonstrating at schools, art fairs, career days and youth groups. One if our community service projects consists of turning 150 – 200 birdhouse ornaments and choosing a nursing care facility in the area to give as gifts to the residents. We welcome everyone to come to a meeting as a guest and feel free to bring a turned item to show off.
Seminar Description: The Club will be continuously turning spinning tops throughout the day. Stop by for a demo to see what we can do on the lathe!
Capital Area Woodworkers
capitalareawoodworkers.com
Cub Scouts
Lincoln Land Woodturners
Woodturners of St. Louis
www.stlturners.org
Edwardsville Woodworkers Club
www.edwardsvillewoodworkers.org
International Wood Collectors
www.woodcollectors.org
Belleville Area Holzschnitzer Woodcarvers Club
www.iidbs.com/holz/
MILWAUKEE, WI
Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild
www.wiscwoodworkersguild.org
The Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild is a non-profit organization. We welcome into membership all men and women who are interested in woodworking. The objectives of the Guild are the enjoyment and furtherance of the art of woodworking for its members, through educational activities such as workshops, seminars, lectures and exhibits. The club members are also active in the program of making and donating toys to children at various agencies that care for, and run shelters for battered souses and their families.
Seminar Description: Our club will be using a scroll saw to saw puzzles for children, and then give them away to children present at the show!
Northeastern Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild
www.newwg.org
Club Description: Members have monthly meetings which include: lectures, demonstrations of interest, free access to our extensive library of books, videos, and CD’s, Bench Talk (a monthly news letter), and opportunities to show off work on the guild’s website. We have a Spring Show, which generates over 2000 visitors!
Seminar Description: We will be demonstrating Bent Wood Laminating, where attendees can learn hot to build a fishing net!
Badger State Carvers
Club Description: The badger State Carvers is a non-profit club organized to promote the art and craft of wood carving as an art form. We do an annual show each fall at Mt. Carmel Nursing Home, where we have our monthly meeting.
Seminar Description: We will be demonstrating beginning and advanced carving and whittling. Some of the things you can expect to see include chip carving, relief carving, carving in the round figure, wood burning, and many other forms of art!
Mid-West Tool Collectors Association
Club Description: M-WTCA tries to promote the study, preservation, and sharing knowledge of tools. Along with our national and local meets we help several historical sites and museums throughout the US. Also at our local and national meets there are numerous displays set up to further the members knowledge of antique or unique tools.
Seminar Description: We will have several displays, one of which usually has a WI or Milwaukee theme. This year one of the displays will be woodworking planes (wood) marked by Milwaukee or WI hardware stores or plane makers. Another display will be a bowling pin trimmer which was used to recondition the early wood bowling pins. There will also be a display of unusual rules or calipers such as an undertakers casket calipers.
SOMERSET, NJ
CRAFTS (Collectors of Rare and Familiar Tools Society)
www.craftsofnj.org
Club Description:
In 1977, a small group of tool collectors formed CRAFTS, meeting informally to talk about tools. In 1980, the Club was incorporated as a non-profit organization with the purpose of encouraging interest in early trades and industries and fostering the identification, study, preservation and exhibition of early tools and implements.
Strolling Seminar Description:
CRAFTS will be featuring many top quality rare antiques, describing their history and uses over the years. Attendees can bring in any antique woodworking tool to get an appraisal from an expert!
Hudson Valley Woodturners
Club Description: Husdson Valley Wood Turners is the chapter of the AAW (American Association of Woodturners) that serves Bergen County, NJ and Rockland County, NY. We are a group of avocational woodturners that enjoy sharing our knowledge with others. We welcome all people who are interested regardless of skill level.
Seminar Description: We will be providing numerous demonstrations including: Roughing out a Bowl, Segmented Bowl, Pen Turning, Small Hollow Forms, CD Tops, Bottle Stoppers, Boxes, Goblets, Pendants, and Bud Vases.
Atlantic Shore Woodturners Club
www.Atlanticshorewoodturners.com
Club Description: The Atlantic Shore Woodturners hold monthly meetings, which include showcasing member’s work, technical/artistic demonstrations and our Beginning Youth Outreach Program.
Seminar Description: We will be showing how to turn on the lathe from beginning to end. This will include selecting the wood, mounting on the lathe, tool description and use, shaping and smoothing the wood, along with safety. Beginners will be able to turn a pen!
Garden State Marquetry Society
www.gsmarquetryplus.com
Central Jersey Woodworking Association
www.cjwa.org
NJ Woodturners
ATLANTA, GA
Gwinnett Woodworkers Assoc.
www.gwinnettwoodworkers.com
Modern Woodworkers Assoc.
www.modernwoodworkersassociation.com
TAMPA, FL
AAW Woodturning Collaborative
CHARLOTTE, NC
Charlotte Woodworkers Assoc.
www.charlottewoodworkers.org
HOUSTON, TX
Brazoria County Woodcarving Club
Club Description: The mission of the Brazoria County Woodcarvers Club is to promote the art of woodcarving. We have members from Monterrey, Mexico to Creede, Colorado. The club is very active with the Boy Scouts and helps promote the education of children in the art of woodcarving.
Seminar Descriptions:
What wood do you carve? This is a common question for woodcarvers and the intent of this seminar is to examine many of the species of wood used for woodcarving. We will also have samples of carvings using hard and soft wood species.
When carving realistic carvings, carvers frequently have to texture the wood to resemble fur, feathers, or scales. This seminar will provide several methods of wood texturing.
Pyrography --Woodcarving uses other art forms to enhance the projects realism. This seminar will look at pyrography and how it is used to make woodcarvings pop (standout). We will also look at pyrography as an art form with samples of portrait photos and various nature scenes.
Finishing woodcarvings. This seminar will examine the types of finishes put on carving projects. We will look at painting carvings and the many techniques used.
Types of woodcarvings. This seminar will discuss and have examples of the many types of woodcarvings. Example: Relief carvings, carving in the round, realistic carvings, caricature carving, and stylistic carvings.
Lone Star Woodturners Assoc., Inc
www.lonestarwoodturners.com
