Northern Rockies Woodworking Guild

What's New

• Meeting night has been moved from 2nd Thursday of the month to 2nd Tuesday of the month. Meeting time unchanged.

Elections complete:
• Jim Larson will move up to president from the vice president position per the bylaws.He will serve for the year 2012.
• George Stanislao was elected to vice president. George will serve as vice president for the year 2012 then automatically advance to President in 2013.
• Ivan Flock was elected to secretary. This is a 2 year position so he will serve for 2012 and 2013.
• Nick Nickelson volunteered to stay on as treasurer.
• Thanks to the outgoing officers for their service and welcome to the new officers



• Dues at the start of the year. $20.00

• We need more demonstration topics and demonstrators. If you have some knowledge you wish to share please volunteer to give a demo or lead a discussion. If you have questions or a skill you wish to know more about please bring it up to see if this spurs someone to demonstrate or share their knowledge.

• Jim Larson found some instructions for the Spiral Finial that he did on one of the show and tell items he brought to the September meeting at the Sawmill Creek web site. If you find some interesting on-line resources like this be sure to let the rest of us know. Don't forget the AAW as a good resource.
  

• Two lathes for sale on the classified's page.

• Rick reports the student group is getting more active and he would like to get some help from guild members with guiding the kids for safe woodworking on the lathe and with other aspect of woodworking.

  The student group meets every Wednesday from 3:30 to 6:00. So if you got some time please step up and help with the student group. All members that have participated report it is a fun experience.

  You can get Rick's e-mail by clicking here.
  Check back here for updated pictures of projects.
  
  
  
  
  To check out the student portion of the web site click here.

• The meeting night is the second Tuesday 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. The library is brought 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.