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The West Virginia Woodturners Association provides woodturners in southeastern West Virginia and western Virginia with an opportunity to meet other turners, enhance their skills, and share their skills and interests in woodturning. Send an email to info@wvwoodturners.com to request additional information about the club and its activities.

Next Meeting July 23

The June meeting was cancelled because of the flooding in Greenbrier County. the July meeting will be held on July 23 at The Fort at Montwell Park. We meet on the ground floor, below the Hill and Holler restaurant. The meeting begins at 9:30, but come early and have a cup of coffee and a donut with the other members.

Mark Soukup, a professional Windsor chair make from Gap Mills, will be our guest demonstrator. He will show how he refers to grind his skew chisels and how he uses them to turn the various spindles that are characteristic of the Windsor chair style.

After seeing the demonstration, Club members will be challenged to turn three identical spindles that include a pommel, a 4" taper, a shoulder, a bead, and a cove. The Challenge spindles should be brought to the September meeting

May 21 Highlights

Twenty three members and three guests attended the May meeting and Ron Withrow and Terry Wodder were welcomed as new members. After enjoying coffee and donuts and the door prize and raffle drawings, eight Club members displayed ten of their recent turnings during the Show and Tell period. Harry Newman finished the series of bowl turning demonstrations by showing how he uses scrapers, a technique he learned from Stewart Medeiros, a professional truner from Hawaii.

Show and Tell