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Welcome to the Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild site. We are a membership of over 344 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 Shop & Guild Meetings (enter on the West side of the building) 9701 W. 67th St Click here for a map to the location. Merriam, KS 66203 The monthly meetings are on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm.
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Monthly Membership Meetings:
September 15 Sam Maloof
Inspired Rocking Chair
Ron Lomax will present a program on building a Maloof inspired rocking chair. He will discuss materials, tools, DVDs, books, patterns, templates and schools, available to assist a woodworker. After he covers some wood selection and availability issues, he will show how the templates and jigs are used to make the various parts of the rocking chair. Seat construction will be followed by leg construction, then the arms, crest rail, spindles, and finally the rockers. After the construction phase, he will discuss his approach to sculpting the chair. In the finishing phase, he will discuss the sanding schedule, and why it is to important. And finally, the selection of varnish and wax materials will conclude the presentation.
October 20 : Miniature Woodworking with
Bill Robertson.
"A native of Washington, D.C., Robertson spent hours as a boy in the Smithsonian Museum transfixed by the displays of model boats, planes, buildings and street scenes. These days he is often called upon to consult with museums as they design galleries to display miniatures. He has lived for many years in Kansas City, Missouri, and has a 25-year association with the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City, whose holding include the largest collection of Robertson miniatures on public view." "Robertson, who is astonishingly adept working small in metal as well as wood, focuses on 1/12th scale versions of period furniture, architecture and tools." ...quotes from Fine Woodworking. November
17: Coyote Stencil Shop Software. For a preview see
the web-site
http://www.carvingtechnologies.com/. Introduction to Machine Woodworking The Kansas City Woodworkers Guild is offering Introduction to Machine Woodworking, a 12-week night class, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Classes will be held on Thursday’s, September 23 through December 16. Cost $170.00. More ... Clinics
Hand tool Demo/Clinic on Raised Panel Doors,
Tuesday, October 19,
6-9 PM.
With Don Kruse.
Making mortise and tenon joints on the rails and styles and a floating panel.
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FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Home Schooled Students Offered Practical Woodworking Course MERRIAM, Kansas (August 10, 2010) The Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild, located in Merriam, Kansas and in its 26th year, is making available a course in practical woodworking for the home schooled student. “We offer home schooled students, 14 years of age and above, a unique opportunity for a hands-on encounter with the application of practical woodworking”, said Clifford Bell, V.P. of the Guild. “Project planning, applied math & science, and problem-solving in the woodshop help the students in all their other classes.” The 13 week course (three hours, one day a week) focuses on necessary skills, tools, and techniques to introduce the craft of woodworking and furniture making. The course successfully meets the needs of multiple experience levels in a safe, well equipped, spacious, supportive, and congenial educational environment. Students will take pride in their accomplishments and gain self esteem. The classes will be taught by a Certified Industrial Technology Teacher, with 20 years of public school teaching experience. The class emphasis will always be on SAFETY! This fundamental course stresses the historical development of tools & woodworking machinery, workshop safety, and woodworking skills. Students will gain knowledge in the safe use of hand and power tools, woodworking machines, project planning, problem solving, and applied math and science. Students will experience different types of wood and choose their best application. In this project-oriented course in woodworking, students will be assigned to plan and construct several small and medium sized projects. The Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild, with over 345 members, shares with the Kansas City Woodturners Club a 10,000 square foot shop and meeting facility in Merriam, Kansas. For more information about the Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild visit their website at: www.kcwoodworkersguild.org (email: guild@kcwoodworkersguild.org) or the Home School page at www.kcwoodworkersguild.org/Education/School.htm . Click here for more information ...Special Interest Groups (SIG) Have formed:
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