July 2020 Newsletter

  Open Shop Tour — Monday, August 10, 3-5 p.m. Our next open shop tour is less than two weeks away! Mark your calendar to attend the next open shop tour, hosted by Dave Campbell at his standalone woodworking shop. This will be a multi-faceted tour showing some of his work, large and small, as well … Read more

June 2020 Newsletter

  Newsletter — June 2020   Open Shop — Tuesday, July 14 — 3-5 p.m. Craig Thompson is opening his shop for the first Open Shop tour. A printable summary sheet with location, times, shop overview can be downloaded here. Featured item:  General Shop Layout – Work Triangle – Expandable Space Date & Time of … Read more

May 2020 Newsletter

  May 2020 Hello fellow woodworkers, We hope you and your families are all well and safe. Group activities continue to be cancelled. We hope we can restart our schedule of lumber runs, field trips, meetings and special gatherings soon. There is a LOT of information in this newsletter. We hope you read it through … Read more

March 2020 Newsletter

March 2020   Hello fellow woodworkers, We hope you and your families are all well and safe. Unfortunately, we will be cancelling or postponing all April and May activities. Just when we were really getting going . . . April Meeting: We will not be having a meeting in April. A fall meeting will be … Read more

February 2020 Newsletter & Meeting Recap

Next meeting: Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 3 p.m., St. James Community Center Shop Open House: Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 3-4 p.m., 3770 Bridgewater Dr., hosted by Craig Thompson (green beer served!) Our growing St. James Woodworkers group had a terrific meeting on February 11th at the Community Center. Overall 30 people attended, including 11 new … Read more

January 2020 Meeting/Tour Recap

We had a great field trip to Torrie Dinyovsky’s shop, Marsh Point Enterprises, Inc. In all, 21 members attended and were able to see this cabinet shop’s massive industrial woodworking equipment. Torrie and her husband fired up their 4’x8′ CNC machine and routed out a sign featuring the St. James Woodworkers logo. She has generously … Read more

January 2020 Newsletter

JANUARY 12, 2020 CLUB NEWS AND EVENTS Hello fellow woodworkers: Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. Since our last meeting in November we have had many new members and we now have 26 woodworkers! This is very exciting news for our group. I am sure that once we get the word out … Read more

November 2019 Meeting Recap

We had our first official meeting at my home and there were ten members attending. We discussed several topics and three members “volunteered” for three new positions. Wayne Kruger – Treasurer Fred Walters – Webmaster/Audio Visual (at meetings) Gary Mlynek – Communications/Membership We would like to have at least two people to volunteer to be … Read more