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Mike Wendt demonstrated proper tree felling on a Saturday, March 29 field trip. It was quite a thrill to see a 24 inch diameter Black Walnut tree hit the ground. […]
For 2025 we are asking that all members fill out the membership registration form shown below. This is so we can make sure our records of your phone numbers, addresses, […]
To facilitate the sale of some of the items donated by Cami Brzycki as well as the woodturning blanks donated by the Bardenhagen family, we will be running an on-line […]
Jay Guiliani and Mark Trenier presented this month on the topic of organizing your shop. Jay spoke to electrical considerations and offered to help advise anyone looking for solutions to […]
Here are pictures from the February Workshop Day:
Leigh White demonstrated the turning of a Weeble bowl at our February meeting. Actually, she turned two of them. A Weeble bowl, Leigh’s name for them, is a bowl that’s […]
Leigh provided a sheet with photos and helpful tips for the February demonstration – click here.
Here are pictures from the February Meeting – If we have misidentified or forgotten the name of the artist for a particular piece feel free to reach out and let […]
I saw this on Facebook for another subject and adapted it to our passion:
Our January 2025 MAWT meeting was conducted totally online based on the preference of our demonstrator. I thought it went very well and Lyle Jamieson delivered some valuable woodturning wisdom […]
Here are a few pictures of Mike Wendt’s give-away of the green ash in Hales Corners, from Sunday, December 8.
I recently discovered a problem with access to the Members Only pages on the MAWT Website. If you have recently been frustrated when trying to view members only pages, please […]
I’m writing this the morning after the 2024 Holiday Party. We had a great time. I didn’t take a count but I think there were about 40 people or so […]
I cannot over emphasize how important this is to the board… it is not an exaggeration to say that keeping track of the membership is the largest challenge that the […]
We had a great meeting last Monday night (November 4). The Fabulous Fearsome Foursome Finessed Finishing. Ron Zdroik began by talking about enhancements (carving and painting), Terry Alby gave a […]
We had a great meeting last Monday evening. After the break I counted over 50 in attendance. I don’t know how many we had on Zoom. Jim Andresen gave us […]
One of the services we provide as a club is to notify our membership when we are made aware of items for sale. In the past we have tried different […]
This post is to serve as a reminder of the How to Buy page on the MAWT website. This page was created in response to some questions raised by attendees […]
Once again, I wrote this and never put the finishing touches on it until now. It’s August. My granddaughter’s first day of school was this week. We had a good […]
Here we are more than half way through the year. We had a great meeting last Monday night, and it was very well attended with 46 in attendance and another […]
At the meeting the other night I said I would provide a resource for making wig stands. Someone in the meeting mentioned the Central Illinois Woodturners website and they do […]
We had a great demonstration with Keith Gotschall on Monday night (6/3/24). We had 26 or so members in the meeting room and 12 or so on line for a […]
This was written over 10 days ago and I never got it published… It was good to have a somewhat normal meeting this month. The “somewhat” is because the scheduled […]
Here are some items which could and should have been included in the original newsletter: Discount Code for Virtual Symposium – the chapter has a discount code which will save […]
Hi – it’s been too long since we have published any updates about the Milwaukee Area Woodturners. Since the last newsletter, a number of things have occurred… Welcome new members!! […]
Thanks to Dennis Motl for some sound woodturning advice at the February meeting. Although Dennis touched on many subjects, much of the knowledge he shared was good basic stuff. I […]
One of the things that Dennis mentioned really rang a bell with me personally, which is “Don’t let the person with the saw determine the size (and shape) of your […]
The director of Friedens Food Pantries writes: Food Rescue Drivers Needed! Did you know? Nearly 300,000 lbs of our food is rescued from local grocery stores! Friedens counts on a […]
We had another good turnout for our January meeting and I know we had a number of participants on the Zoom meeting. We had a number of Instant Gallery items […]
I’m sorry I ran out of time for the demonstration Monday night. Here are some highlights of my thinking that you may find useful. I think the challenge of making […]
Hi Everyone: If you weren’t able to attend the 2023 December Holiday Party you missed a great time! We had a great turnout with lots of great food and fellowship! […]
November Meeting: We had a great turnout for our November meeting – between those present at the Woodcraft meeting room and the online participants we had almost 60 people in […]
Back in September 2023 our club sent a survey to its membership. There was only one email sent out to request participation and we had 44 people respond to the […]
Our meeting date came early this month – on October 2! Coupled with the late date last month due to the Labor Day holiday – the two meetings came close […]
The final count on Empty Bowls for 2023 was 262 bowls. My wife and I were able to attend the Empty Bowls event in Milwaukee last Sunday. I saw a […]
September Meeting We had a great meeting on September 11. David Landers did a great job of helping us understand how to think out of the box and how to […]
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Show-N-Tell at the meeting on August 7. The meeting was recorded and the recording is ready for viewing at the top of […]
I am very hopeful that we can find an individual who is willing to serve on the board and be mentored to take over as club president no later than […]
Recently, I met a personal woodturning goal that I had set for myself. Meeting that goal has caused me to reflect a little on the place for goals in our […]
It’s funny, or maybe not so funny that I had begun to write this post before the flooding issues that occurred in the Woodcraft basement last week (probably a couple […]
Go Turn Something Round Today!!