Northern Rockies Woodworking Guild

What's New

• Ivan Flock is helping the widow of a close friend by selling the contents of this late friend's shop. The garage sale will include tools, wood, pen kits and other craft kits. The sale will be at Ivan's garage at 814 Cape Ave. Bozeman on June 27th at 7:00 am. Map to garage location. No early sales. Call 580-9503 or 585-9503 for directions. Quote from the last meeting; 'There is more stock than Craft supplies.'

• Everyone that attended the J. Paul Fennell demo report they enjoyed it. Thanks to Gary, Gunny and Rick for being good hosts. Demo pictures will be posted soon.

• The guild is taking the summer off. No meetings during July and August. Everybody stay safe in the shop, keep an eye out for the tree services trucks and let your fellow members know when some free wood is available and get lots of projects done to show off at the September meeting.

• AAW 23rd Symposium will be in Albuquerque, NM this year June 26th to 28. Click here for details.

• Looking for demonstrators for the fall schedule. If you have a demo you would like to give, please contact the officers.

• October 9th Rich Charlson from Great Falls will give us a day long demonstration at the Bozeman High School woods shop. You can check out his work here.

• The Billings group will be holding a mini symposium October 3&4th - Trent Bosch is one scheduled turner. Keep an eye on their web site for info

• The meeting night is the second Thursday of the month. The business meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. and the general meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. As always guests are welcome and be sure to bring your latest work for show and tell.

• The Rotary Club used to receive a turned gavel from John Montagne every year for the incoming president.
  With John's passing the group feels that we should step in and take over this in John's memory. The November meeting featured Gordon McMullen demonstrating how to make a gavel. Tom Robinson found this source for instructions.It has been proposed that we make a supply of gavels to give away to this organization in John Montagne's memory. If you would like to create a gavel we can donate several to the organization. The Rotary club intends to use a 4 1/2" long brass plaque around the head with your name and the recipent. Please make the head large enough so the circumference is large enough for this plaque.
  

• Free turned wooden bowls. See how you can get a free artistic wooden bowl or turned item.

• The library is a resource for guild members. Tom Robinson is our librarian and he brings the library to each meeting. If you have books/DVDs/Videos that you would like to share you can donate them to the library or loan them and retain ownership.