Sponsors

http://www.andreschocolates.com    Andre’s fine food and fine furniture we made for them

http://www.strasser-hardware.com/  supplies for woodworking, often ones you can’t get elsewhere 

http://www.woodcraft.com/ tools and wood for projects

www.schuttelumber.com  a lumberyard in Kansas City

http://www.metrohardwoodsinc.com/  Hardwood supplier, woodworking supplies

Other Guilds & Clubs

Woodworkers of Southeast Texas http://www.wwset.org  Please be sure to take a look at their Saturday Programs ... great ideas for clinics on woodworking with great write-up.

Links are under re-construction

We would like to include here links specifically recommended by members.  However,  there is no intent to recreate the many listings of woodworking links abundantly displayed elsewhere.  If you have a link that you think the members and guests to this website would like to visit, please send your recommendation to:

webmaster@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Link recommendations should include a sort paragraph detailing what you found useful about the link and why it might be of interest to members and website visitors.

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.

• http://sandal-woodsblog.com
• http://www.examiner.com/x-10942-Woodworking-Examiner 

The Cedar Valley Woodworkers (www.cedarvalleywoodworkers.com) meet on the second Tuesday of the month at the Waterloo Center for the Arts -225 Commercial  S t. Waterloo, Iowa, at 6:30 P.M.   The Cedar Valley Woodworkers meet together to share  ideas,  provide  demonstrations,  promote safety, good fellowship, and to  facilitate success with each project.   In the last six years,  they have also incorporated the needs of the communities with woodworking projects for the Salvation Army, North Eastern Iowa Food Bank, Black Hawk County Family and Children’s Council, Waverly Iowa Battered Women’s Shelter, Sartori Hospital, and Precious Angels of Iowa.  Their community projects have included flag cases, toys, turned bowls, kitchen cabinets, and caskets and urns ... all with a goal of promoting safe woodworking habits and enhancing the skills of their members.   Contact:  Paul Bailey  (pbailey@cfu.net) 

Highland Woodworking  (http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/) is a Georgia Mail Order Tool Store.  It's greatest value, outside as a tool source, is an extensive Library of woodworking tips ... many written by their customers. Tips include multiple short articles on Woodworking Hand Tools & Shop Techniques, Sharpening Woodworking Tools,  Bandsaws & Bandsaw Blades, Wood Routers & Router Bits, Wood Finishing & Wood Sanding, and more.

Links recommendation from Bill Johnston

www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks/
The blog and webstore site of Rob Hanson.  Mr. Hanson's blog entries are full of good handtool and handtool technique posts.  In addition, he sells a very clever, adjustable miter shooting board.  His virtual library, www.evenfallstudios.com/woodworks_library/woodworks_library.htm, contains a growing collection of out-of-print woodworking, smithing, layout and architecture design books.  Well worth the time to browse.

www.sawmillcreek.org
 The 'creek or SMC as the locals call it has a wide range of discussion topics including CNC machines, engraving, handtools, woodworking commercial ventures, and finishing.  Guild member Junior Strasil is a regular contributor to SMC.  SMC is a moderated web site and while it can be enjoyed for no cost, a small donation of $5 allows access to additional forum areas and disables annoying pop-up advertising.

www.woodworkingonline.com along with www.woodnet.net and its forums are maintained by August Home Publishing, the folks that bring you Shop Notes and Woodsmith magazines.  www.woodworkingonline.com archives the in-store seminars they give at the home office in Iowa.  These podcasts can be watched on-line or downloaded and played from your harddrive.  www.woodnet.net and its forum is another vibrant on-line community with good (and the bad and the crazy, it is the Internet after all) advice and woodworking discussions.  The Woodnet forums also provide an area for classified advertisements related to woodworking, tools and materials.  The regulars that prowl the ads do their best to keep everyone honest but still, caveat emptor!

www.woodworkingchannel.com/dolphin/vidego_video_library.php is a collection of videos that requires a reasonably quick connection, not recommended for dialup.  For fans of Sam Maloof, there is a nice series of videos highlighting an open forum Q&A session he participated in several years ago.  Also found among the videos are many early episodes of "The Router Workshop".  Keep looking through the files long enough and find our very own Anthony Harris doing what he does best.

www.routerforums.com  is primarily a forum devoted to the use of handheld and table mounted routers in woodworking projects.  However it also features interesting sub-forums on wood carving, pyrography and turning.  If you have ANY questions about what to do with your router, what jig to make or which bits to buy, prowl around the forum!  Feel free to ask lots of questions, this is one of the friendliest woodworking forums I've ever found.

intheworkshop.wordpress.com is the blog web site of Charles Neil.  You may recognize Charles from some of the short commercial videos he has made on behalf of Woodcraft and some of the products they sell.  Charles has a collection of DVDs he has produced and is genuinely interested in answering questions and teaching.  Well worth the time to browse his blog and watch a few of the videos.

http://www.furnitology.com/ Neil Lamens spent a good portion of his career as a designer for the big furniture manufacturers (hint, one begins with the letter B and ends in hill).  But he hasn't let that stop him from thinking about innovative designs.  His blog, (he is also a contributor to the Wood Magazine blogs and a regular at the Major League Woodworking forum) tends toward the more esoteric aspects of furniture and furniture design.  Neil is a big fan of laminations, plywood and using non-traditional (in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century sense) materials in furniture.  Neil has an opinion and wants to share it with you! 

http://www.mattsbasementworkshop.com/ Matt Vanderlist's Matt's Basement Workshop podcast is a sort of goofy everyman's podcast.  Matt also has a show he co-hosts with Marc Spagnolo (copies of this show are available on both Matt's and Marc's websites).  He has also started a new side project, The Spoken Wood, which will have different "notable" hosts each episode commenting on whatever catches their fancy. 

http://www.handplane.com/ is the web page for "Handplane Central".  This site is not as active as some other sites but if you have a question about the heritage of that old plane you found or ever wondered what other companies besides Stanley have made handplanes, this is the site for you.  They also have a feed from eBay where certain plane auctions are highlighted.

Links Recommendations from Robert Young