Milwaukee Area Woodturners

Category: MAWt

  • June 2025 Newsletter

    Board News The board approved a request from the Empty Bowls event organizers, Nourish Milwaukee, to demonstrate bowl tuning during their event in October. Next Meeting – No Monday evening […]

  • May 2025 Newletter

    Board News The board was made aware of an opportunity for MAWT to promote the club and demonstrate turning at two events.  They are Germanfest and Folk Fair.  One or […]

  • April 2025 Newsletter

    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.  […]

  • Member Registration

    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, […]

  • Upcoming Auction – Web Site Sign On

    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 […]

  • March 2025 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • February Workshop Day

    Here are pictures from the February Workshop Day:

  • February 2025 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Handout for February Demonstration

    Leigh provided a sheet with photos and helpful tips for the February demonstration – click here.

  • Pictures from the February 2025 Meeting

    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 […]

  • Funny

    I saw this on Facebook for another subject and adapted it to our passion:

  • January 2025 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Pictures of Green Ash in Hales Corners

    Here are a few pictures of Mike Wendt’s give-away of the green ash in Hales Corners, from Sunday, December 8.

  • Website Access – Fixed?

    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 […]

  • December 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • 2025 Dues

    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 […]

  • November 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • September 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Listing Items for sale

    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 […]

  • Do you want to be on the “How to Buy” Page?

    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 […]

  • August 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • July 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Wig Stand Resources

    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 […]

  • June 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • May 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Additional April Newsletter Items

    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 […]

  • April 2024 Newsletter

    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!! […]

  • February 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • The Person With The Saw

    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 […]

  • Volunteer Opportunity (Friedens)

    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 […]

  • January 2024 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Peppermill Philosophy

    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 […]

  • December 2023 Newsletter

    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 2023 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Questionnaire/Survey Results

    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 […]

  • October 2023 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Empty Bowls Event

    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 2023 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • August 2023 Newsletter

    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 […]

  • Vice President’s Position

    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 […]