wood – South Puget Sound Woodturners https://spswoodturners.org Learning about Turning Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:10:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://spswoodturners.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SPSW_Logo-73x75.jpg wood – South Puget Sound Woodturners https://spswoodturners.org 32 32 September Membership Meeting https://spswoodturners.org/september-membership-meeting-7 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:26:14 +0000 https://spswoodturners.org/?p=15048 Club Store – Pam Parson will be …]]> This month brings the second of our mini-symposiums. Here is a lineup of who you will see:

  • Membership Booth – Renew your membership today. Membership chair Terry Broberg will be available for you to join or renew your club membership

     

     

     

  • >Club Store – Pam Parson will be there for you to pick up your needed items for your shop

     

     

     

  • Club Wood Sales – Devin Garlick will have a fine assortment of wood for your next project

     

     

     

  • D-Way & Box Master Tools – Jimmie Allen will be there for you to pick up that new tool you have been wanting. Locally Made in the USA / Washington

     

     

     

  • Sharpening – Michael Poirier will be there to help you to “sharpen” your sharpening skills. Mike will demonstrate how he sharpens. Bring a dull tool or two…

     

     

     

  • Figurines and Lighthouses – Jeff Marshal will demonstrate easy to make turnings for decorations

     

     

     

    • ]]> 2022 Annual Holiday Potluck https://spswoodturners.org/2022-annual-holiday-potluck Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:20:07 +0000 https://spswoodturners.org/?p=12566 Good food and good conversation. Not to mention wood, tool and gift certificate giveaway.

    ]]>         Tool Swap and Bowl Blank Sale https://spswoodturners.org/tool-swap-and-bowl-blank-sale Sun, 19 May 2019 03:28:41 +0000 https://www.spswoodturners.org/?p=9462 Russell Neyman of The Woodturning Experience in Port Orchard and Steve Bartocci of The Board Hoarder in Kirkland are holding a two-day tool swap and bowl blank sale at Russell’s Port Orchard studio. The event is scheduled for June 1st and 2nd and is open to anyone that is interested. We have been told that there will be at least two lathes for sale. See the flyers for more information.

    Tool Swap Meet 2019

    Bowl Blank & Burl Sale 2019

    ]]>         Annual Picnic and Wood Auction https://spswoodturners.org/annual-picnic-and-wood-auction-4 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:00:58 +0000 http://www.spswoodturners.org/?p=4548 Don’t forget, our Annual Picnic and Wood Auction is this month. It will be held Sunday, July 20th, starting at 1:00, at the North Lake Improvement Club. Plug this address into your phone or GPS, . Or, if you are feeling lucky, take the Weyerhaeuser Way S exit off Hwy 18. Go North. At the turning circle, take the first right onto 33rd Pl S. This will become S. 334th St. At the next turning circle, take the second right onto 38th Ave S. You will see the Improvement Club on your right in about one block. If you are coming down Military Rd S, turn west, the only way you can turn, on S. 328th St. Follow it around to where it becomes 38th Ave S and look for the Improvement Club on your left.

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    This is a potluck. Bring your favorite dish: main, side, salad or dessert. Drinks, plates and utensils will be provided by the club.

    Don’t forget, this is also a wood auction. Last year we got some of the best deals you have ever seen.

    ]]>         World Wood Day https://spswoodturners.org/world-wood-day Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:00:05 +0000 http://www.spswoodturners.org/?p=3445 world wood day logoThe International Wood Culture Society (IWCS) has announced the 2013 World Wood Day on March 21st. This year’s symposium will be held in Tanzania with the theme “Wood in Africa: Cultural Distribution, Historical Utilization, and Future Sustainability”. The symposium aims to encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences concerning the wood research, strategy and practice, in the cultural, historical and social contexts and development. Focused topics are designed to raise awareness of current issues and to enhance multidisciplinary discussions for the crucial role of wood in a sustainable world.

    Several events are planned including a woodcarving competition, an international woodcarving show and a woodturning show. Local and international woodcarvers and turners are expected to give presentations to share with judges and audiences their ideas for their creations at the end of the program, which will be a highlight of the event. The activities of the World Wood Day are intended to encourage the public to take a closer look at wood and sustainable conservation of forests and trees in farmland.

    Other events planned for the World Wood Day 2013 include a drawing competition for local children to show their appreciation for wood with their imagination and talents, and a tour of specific wood culture spots around Tanzania.

    More information is available on the World Wood Day website and on the World Wood Day Facebook page.

    ]]>         Wood Reference https://spswoodturners.org/wood-reference Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:30 +0000 http://www.spswoodturners.org/?p=2696 ncsu librariesHave you been looking for a good reference to help identify that log in your pile? Here is a reference in the Special Collections Research Center of the NCSU Libraries. It includes radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the 14-volume rare book The American Woods, published between 1888 and 1910 by the author, Romeyn Beck Hough. The images can be accessed by volume number or by the scientific or common name of each tree.

    http://lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/hough/index.html

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