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The following message is from AAW Board member Stan Wellborn

Looking Toward a “Virtual” AAW?

Chances are that you’re reading this on some kind of computer screen. These days, most of us spend a fair amount of time online, and some of us use “smart” phones and electronic “pads” or “tablets.” You can tell by [...]

Segmented Turners Monthly Summary

60th Anniversary Bowl by Tom Kenyon

The Segmented Woodturners virtual chapter of the AAW has published their March summary.

Segmented Symposium

The Segmented Symposium is coming up in October and president Malcolm Tibbetts is encouraging those that are planning to attend to register soon to give the board a better idea of the number of [...]

Segmented Woodturners Symposium Scholarships Available

Prayer Wheel by Tom Hohl

The Board of Directors of the Segmented Woodturners have announced the availability of two scholarships for registration fees for the Segmented Woodturners Symposium coming up in October. These scholarships are valued at $250 each.

The puropse of these scholarships is:

To increase educational resources to turners with a special interest [...]

Open Spaces for Demo with David Belser

We still have space available for this Thursday’s demo with David Belser.

On Thursday, March 29th we host David Belser, http://davidbelser.com/ . David will be sharing with us his sources of creativity and his fearless attitude to try new concepts. He will demonstrate how his use of un-conventional mediums of holding wood for turning, [...]

What’s New on the SPSW Website

Photos from Carol Zandell’s fun demonstration in February have been posted under Galleries/Demonstrators.

Dan Stromstad provided a tutorial on turning bowls from fresh logs to dry bowls. This is posted in our Learning Center under Tutorials.

In case you missed it, the March Newsletter has been added here.

For members, the February 2012 board [...]

March 2012 Wodturning Fundamentals

Have you signed up for the Woodturning Fundamentals newsletter from the AAW? This is an email publication that comes in the months opposite from the American Woodturner magazine. There is a lot of great information for new and intermediate turners.

The March issue was just emailed out and it contains several interesting articles. Included this [...]

2012 Chapter Challenge Vote

We have received ideas for our chapter for entering into the AAW Chapter Challenge at the annual symposium in June. We are hoping to be able to vote on these at the Thursday mini-symposium to determine if there is enough interest and which idea we will proceed with.

If you are an SPSW member you [...]

Woodturning Show and Sale at Oldfield Center

The 1st Annual Woodturning Show and Sale will be held March 17th to April 1st at the Fred Oldfield Western Herritage and Art Center on the Puyallup Fairgrounds. Woodturners from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are invited to participate. Information and registration forms can be found here.

SPSW members, you can bring your registration form [...]

March Membership Meeting

This month we are having our first Mini-Symposium of 2012. We have a great lineup of demonstrators from our club. Take a look at the list below and be prepared to learn something new that you can take back to your own shop.

Please don’t forget that at every Mini-Symposium Andy Firpo has a safety [...]

Woodturning with a 150hp Lathe

So the creator of this video calls himself the Crazy Canadian. And if you watch any his videos you would probably agree. I assume that living in the far North drives a person to be creative and he certainly is.

I do not recommend that anyone try this, but at least you know that it [...]