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MAWT 2025 Annual Newsletter Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Announcement – The Washington Park Senior Center is looking for a volunteer to do a wood turning demonstration in their shop. […]

Meetings Mark Trenier did a presentation and demo on turning a Nativity Scene.  As always, Mark was entertaining while showing how he goes about the turning.  He will also post […]

Meetings Mike Wendt presented Tree Physiology at our October meeting.  He shared some of what he has learned as an Arborist and instructor at MATC about trees and what causes […]

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Meetings Our next meeting is October 6. Mike Wendt will present on Tree Physiology.  He will share some of what he has learned as an Arborist about trees and what […]

Click on a link to open an PDF copy of the handout: Dirty Pour Lids Creating A Lidded Bowl

Meetings Sally Ault was here on July 19 and 20 for a Saturday demo on dirty pour lids and a Sunday hands on class on lidded bowls.  The demo on […]

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, […]

Here are pictures from the February Workshop Day:

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 […]

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 […]