PBS (Public Broadcasting System) has a Craft in America section on their website with lesson plans for teachers. Interestingly, they have a series focusing on The Moulthrops: A Family of Woodturners. The site provides this description of the series: The Moulthrops: A Family of Woodturners explores the work of three …
Kathleen is an accomplished woodturner and artist who is a proud and engaged member of the American Association of Woodturners, the Cascade Woodturners and the Southwest Washington Woodturners. She served two terms on the AAW Board of Directors (2015-2020). Kathleen’s start in woodworking truly began in early childhood watching her …
The Ohio Valley Woodturners Guild is holding their Turning 2025 Symposium at the Higher Ground Conference and Retreat Center in West Harrison, Indiana from October 10th through 12th, 2025. Featured demonstrators include Andy Cole, Pat Carroll, Elizabeth Weber and Rebecca DeGroot. There will be a vendor show, Instant Gallery and …
Those who know Brad Stave will tell you that Brad has always worked with wood in some form or another. And those who don’t know Brad, but meet him, soon experience the intense love he has for wood. If names are omens in a person’s life, then Brad Stave‘s name …
Dan recalled passing by a small shop somewhere with his wife. Inside that shop, they admired some handmade wooden pens. Dan said to his wife, “I could make those.” A while after that, Dan walked into a woodworking store and saw pen making supplies. Dan purchase enough to get started …
Note – This post is from our newsletter archives. It was the President’s message by Pat McCart from the March, 2009 issue of Chips & Shavings. I was recently explaining the markings on the bottom of a highly figured spalted maple bowl with stone inlay to a coworker who remarked …
