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Welcome to the Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild Website We are a membership of over 439 woodworkers of various skills and interests. We have fine furniture makers, woodturners, home builders and more. All woodworkers, from beginners to professionals, are invited to the Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild. To learn more about us click here! Please complete our Guest Book with your Name, Email Address, Phone, and Comments. We will add your email address to our list and notify you of the Newsletter posting, woodworking items for sale, events, and other important announcements. Click here Interested in becoming a member of the Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild. Just click "Join Us" for information and an online form. All future meetings will take place at our new shop at: 3189 Mercier Kansas City, Missouri 64111-3631
Monthly Membership Meetings: The monthly meetings are on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm. at the Guild Shop. Where is the tornado shelter in the shop? The bathrooms and the nearby classroom have been designated tornado shelters in our new shop. If a tornado siren sounds, depending upon how many people are in the shop at the time, the bathrooms are the first choice as a shelter. During a meeting, both ofthe bathrooms and the classroom are the shelter. Read more about tornado safety ... Links (All) New link added http://wiki.owwm.com/ The knowledge base at Old Wood-working Machines has collected together articles, links, tips and hints for keeping your older equipment running. And even if you don't have a 36" Crescent bandsaw in need of new babbitt bearings there is good information to help you tweak and supercharge new equipment. www.vintagemachinery.org also offers a manufacturer's index to help you identify and date old equipment, a collection of manuals and sources for spare parts. RY Shop TIP - Spontaneous Combustion Recommended reading from Russ Amos For those of you who use oils and wipe on varnishes here is an important link on what can happen if you just wad up a used rag and throw it in the trash or a corner of your shop.
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New - Books by Doug Stowe The Guild Library now has a collection of plans. They are divided into topics such as For Your Shop, For Children, Scrollsaw, Clocks, Kitchen, For The Outdoors and etc. Please take a look at our plans collection the next time you are in the Shop. Plans may be checked out at any time. Checkout forms are in the Library. Guild Logo Ware - Hats & Polo Shirts Special Interest Groups (SIGs) CNC Woodworking SIG - click here! All interested members of the Guild and their guests are invited to attend SIG meetings. The Hand Tool SIG Meets January 22, 2012, 2pm to 4pm Peter Rabbet Cuts a Dado Or Why so many different tools with the same name!?! The meeting will focus on families of handtools designed to do the same job but under different working conditions or even different species of wood. Additional information ... Click Here! Discounts - Several of our Sponsors provide 10% discount for members. Click here for a list! Wanted/For Sale: Items are promoted via Email. Submit items wanted/for sale. Details ... Election of Officers and Directors is coming up in April The annual election of officers and directors comes up in April. Guild members have an opportunity to participate and be more involved in the guild and its activities. Please click here to find out more. Interesting Western Juniper from Oregon
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Articles Blackening Wood – On Accident … On Purpose(includes discussion on blackening metal) A Journeyman Cabinetmaker's Tool Chest The Old Turnscrew Looked Pretty Sad Patternmaking, Handcrafted Tools, and Fred Früh The Franken-Side-Rabbet Creature The Adventure of the Six Board Chest (aka My First Dovetails) along with The Ideal Mill Common Tool Definitions (humor) Stories of a Woodworker by John Tegeler aka Mr. Radial Arm Saw Chapter 1 The Discovery (originally published in Wood Words) A Cabinetmaker's Workbench by Louis Armstrong (originally published in Wood Words) I Need to Borrow a Saw (humor) Junior Strasil's Portable Workbench in Pictures & Text Constructing Wooden Handles for Fly Rods Hand Cut Mortise and Tenon and Panel Raising Clinic with Don Kruse (Text by Rob Young and Pictures by Bill Ward) Make a Wooden Whistle With Handtools Woodworking with Small Children Reviews Woodriver Plane (Sold by Woodcraft Supply) Worksharp, The Woodworking Tool Sharpener Stanley Sweetheart 60-1/2 Block Plane Review Articles Recommended by Members Air and Solar Drying of Hardwood Lumber Benjamin Hobbs Biography (Pencil Post Bed Presentation) Woodwork (1905 Sloyd Method Manual) Kevin Thomas' Holtzapffel Workbench Introduction by Christopher Schwarz (5 minutes to download on a fast connection, 105 MB) Videos & Pictures Capturing a Walnut Tree for the Guild Woodworking Clubs? Find them here!
Kara Paris, Director of Training, who brought the late Nora Hall to the Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild last December, for one of her last classes before she died in the spring, wanted you to know of Nora Halls’ book, Relief Carving with Nora Hall, is just coming out.
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Guest Demonstrators Accompanying Lie-Nielsen at the Event will be:
Inspired in 2004 by a Sauer & Steiner smoother, Raney Nelson began making his own extraordinary infill planes. Working to exceed the customer’s expectations, Raney strives to make tools that will inspire their users. Made in New Jersey, USA.
Located just outside of Denver, Colorado, Elkhead Tools was founded by three hobbyist woodworkers. They build quality hand tools through a combination of classic aesthetic design, high caliber materials, and traditional and contemporary fabrication techniques. Click on any of the above logos to go directly to their website. Chippendale Claw & Ball Footstool Presented by Calvin Hobbs This is a 5 week advanced class, Tuesday nights from 6 PM to10 PM, starting February 7 running thorough March 6, 2012. Tuition $275.00 Materials $ 75.00
KANSAS CITY WOODWORKERS GUILD OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS-2012 The annual election of officers and directors comes up in April. The Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Officers and Directors serve a two year term, half terms expiring every other year. Guild members have an opportunity to participate and be more involved in the guild and its activities. The following Officers and Directors positions are open and we need members to fill them. Officers Vice President-This officer supports the efforts of the president. Treasurer-This officer handles the fiscal responsibilities of the Guild. Directors Communication - The director oversees the Library, and the monthly newsletter. He is also responsible for the website, its maintenance and updating of information. Membership-This director is responsible for gaining and maintaining new and old members. Program-The director develops and coordinates programs for the monthly meetings, and helps manage the ‘Show and Tell’ at the monthly meetings. Training-This director includes activities to provide the Guild membership with opportunities to expand and/or share their woodworking skills. If you are interested in any of these positions or want to help in any way or learn more about any of the positions, please contact any of the following individuals or any current officer or director. John Tegeler, Chairman of the Nominating committee, 913-461-9396. (johnteg@hotmail.com). Gary Creek-913-449-1162. (g.creek@att.net). Chuck Lynn-913-888-6043. (chasblynn@sbcglobal.net ). KCWG makes the news with Rolling Mobile Bookshelves for Joplin Schools Stricken by Tornado .... From the Kansas City Star Website: Members of the Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild, Gary Creek of Kansas City, Kan., (from left), Kenyon Greene of rural Platte County and Jim Stuart of Olathe, get ready to put together one of 24 portable "libraries" they are building at their Kansas City shop Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. The mobile units, rolling bookshelves designed to open like a book and look like a book, will go to Iverson and Emerson elementary schools in Joplin. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/21/3159039/bookshelves-for-joplin.html
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/21/3159039/bookshelves-for-joplin.html#slide-7#ixzz1YgqwUrMz There are eight more great pictures on the KC Star website of our members building the bookcases in our shop. Thanks to member Russ Amos for bringing this to or attention. |
