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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.

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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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Robert Young (rwyoung@ieee.org) wants you to know:

Tommy MacDonald (http://www.thomasjmacdonald.com/) has recently finished the filming for his premier season on WGBH.
 
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/programDetail.cfm?programid=1123
 

He also encourages you to visit http://www.207tools.com and browse the forum to see some of the best reproduction and modern furniture projects on the web.  Lots of idea, lots of information and LOTS OF OPINIONS!

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/.
 


Workshops

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Us

August Newsletter

Calendar

Guild Logo Ware - Hats & Polo Shirts are now available!

Open Shop Times

Discounts - Several of our Sponsors provide 10% discount for members.  Click here for a list!

Articles

Please submit articles either ready for print or ready for editing (please specify) along with pictures to:  communication@kcwoodworkersguild.org.

Reviews

Articles Recommended by Members

Kevin Thomas' Holtzapffel Workbench

Wanted/For Sale: Items are promoted via Email.  Submit items wanted/for sale. Details ...

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Featured Links

Al Navas, owner of Sandal Woods - Fine Woodworking, is a member of the St. Joseph Woodworkers' Guild. He designs and builds furniture using a combination of power tools and hand tools. Al is the Publisher and Editor of a woodworking blog.  He also writes for an online publication called examiner.com, as the "Woodworking Examiner" for the National Edition. Al often covers, as reporter, Kansas City area  woodworking events on his blog and in the Examiner. Both have featured the Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild on many occasions.

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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 .

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Special Interest Groups (SIG) Have formed:

 

Andre's Table & Bench Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Sponsor Metro Hardwoods in Text and Pictures

 

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