Bob Espen lived in Anchorage, AK.for 23 years. While there he helped found the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association and the Alaska Chapter of the AAW. He participated in several juried art shows at the Anchorage Museum of Fine Arts,The Portland Rose Festival, and Beneath the Bark in Provo Utah. He …
Glenn Schaffer is the Police Chief of Chehalis. He is also a respected member of the Woodturners of Olympia,and an artist in his own right. Glenn will be doing a presentation on natural edge vessels and vases. Glenn moved to Washington a little over eight years ago, from Aspen, Colorado. …
Bring a pen and a pad of paper to the April meeting and be prepared to take lots of notes. Four members of the Olympic Peninsula Woodturners Club will be presenting Fifty Nifty Shop Tips, a collection of wonderful ideas for woodworkers. It promises to be an evening filled with …
The Northwest Woodturners in Beaverton, Oregon are meeting April 2nd. All are invited to share comparisons of their early to recent work. The Inland Northwest Woodturners in Spokane Valley are meeting on April 2nd. The program for the evening has not yet been announced. The Fraser Valley Woodturners in Abbotsford, …
I have been tinkering with wood since I was 9. I got introduced to turning in the late 80’s when my wife and I gave my father-in law a book by Dale Nish called “Creative Woodturning” for Christmas. It totally captured my interest. I learned about the Seattle turning club …
Like many of you I began turning wood in Junior High School. While visiting an uncle in Southern California he noticed my excitement about wood turning and gave me a lathe that he never used. With paper route earnings I purchased tools from Sears and my dad and I began …
