Whatever Your Woodworking Interests, this is the Place in
Central New York
to Explore and Learn
Woodworkers of Central New York is a multi-disciplinary social and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts of woodworking.
EXPERIENCE WOODWORKING - TURNING - CARVING - SCROLLING

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American Association of Woodturners (AAW)
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Handouts for demonstrations (if we have one) are on the Demonstration Handouts page of this website!  Click HERE to be taken there.  

Wednesday, August 3
6:30pm
"Wing It Wednesday"
with Charlie LaPrease & Bruce Meissner
Sponsored by the Woodworking SIG
Demonstration held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
Hybrid Meeting - Both In-Person & Via Zoom
Ascheduling change moved our planned August demo on making Native American flutes with Mike Bloomquist to September.  In his place, Charlie LaPrease and Bruce Meissner agreed to present a very unique, but very educational, program that they are calling Wing It Wednesday!  They will team up to cover some topics often missed - how to choose wood for your project, how to prep it, how to figure out dimensions, how to identify the best joints for your project, and how to select your finish.  Along the way, they will also cover some safety issues associated with making cuts with those special pieces of wood from family and friends who have seen too much on Pinterest.  Come armed with questions to what should be a very educational and lively evening! 
     This session will be a hybrid session with the ability to attend either in-person or via Zoom.  Always check the website and your email to determine if that is changed.   The Zoom link will be sent to members a couple days before the event.  Guests are always welcome.  If you want to attend and are not a member, please send a request to woodcny@gmail.com.
     We love to see what you are working on so bring your latest to the meeting for our Show & Tell session.  If you can't make it and have Show & Tell, send photos your projects via email to woodcny@gmail.com prior to 3pm on Wednesday, August 3rd.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.    

Tuesday, August 9
6:30pm
Exploring Kit Projects
with Rod Castle
Sponsored by the Turning SIG
Demonstration held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
Hybrid Meeting - Both In-Person & Via Zoom
There many kits out there for turners to use.  Rod Castle will explore a variety of these kits - the antique style pepper mill, back scratcher, coffee scoop, dinner bell, pizza cutter, and key ring.  Rod will focus on kits from Penn State, but the tips and tricks he will present can be used when using any kit.  This session should be fun for everyone involved.
     This session will be a hybrid session with the ability to attend either in-person or via Zoom.  Always check the website and your email to determine if that is changed.
The Zoom link will be sent to members a couple days before the event.  If you want to attend and are not a member, please send a request to woodcny@gmail.com.
     We love to see what you are working on so bring your latest to the meeting for our Show & Tell session.  If you can't make it and have Show & Tell, send photos your projects via email to woodcny@gmail.com prior to 3pm on Tuesday, August 9th.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.    

Saturday, August 13th - 9am to 12 noon
Open Workshop - Open to ALL Members
Turning, Carving, Scrolling, etc.
Held In-Person at Eight Acres Event Center
Plan to join other members at another Saturday Workshop held in-person at the Eight Acres Event Center!!  All members are invited to attend.  We hope that the weather cooperates so the outside area can be open for more gathering area!  The lathes and scrollsaw will be available for use and learning.  We hope to have a variety of other members available to answer any questions or concerns you have about projects, finishing, etc.  If you need consumables or wood, everything will be available for purchase.  Members will be sent an email to remind them and provide the address 1-2 days before workshop day.  We ask that you try to pre-register and tell us what you are planning to work on or need help with so we are prepared.  We look forward to seeing you!  Send pre-registration information to woodcny@gmail.com.  

Thursday,  August 18th
5:30pm-8pm
Gather Starting at 5pm
Carving a Butterfly
with Sam Lupo
Held at Beaver Lake Nature Center
Sponsored by the Carving SIG
The next group project for our carving workshop will be a butterfly.  Sam Lupo will lead us through the process.  
     ​   This session is in-person only.  The meetings are held in the large room at the Nature Center and we are finished by 8pm but start between 5 and 5:30pm.  Please bring your recent projects for our Show & Tell table.
In-Person Only

Wednesday,  August 24 thru Monday September 5th
10am-8pm
​
Woodworking the Way it Was

Come See Members Demonstrate
In the Witter Agricultural Museum 
During the 2022 New York State Fair 

Members of the club will be demonstrating woodworking for visitors to the Daniel Parrish Witter Agricultural Museum during  all 13 days of the 2022 New York State Fair.  Our demonstrations are all people-powered, in other words, we don't use electricity!  Intrigued?  Come see how woodworkers would make "stuff" before electricity was added to saws.  Members will use two replica lathes (one treadle & one spring pole), an original 145-year-old treadle scroll saw, a replica shaving horse, and a variety of hand tool demonstrations on our workbench.  
    We will also be conducting our usual raffle of another great collection of fine woodworking pieces including a creche with 26 individual figures, a small occasional table with carved blocks on the glass covered shelves, a hand-made Adirondack pack basket, and smaller items like turned bowls, vases, a peppermill, etc.
    Looking for a top?  We've got them!  And proceeds from our sales will go to the McMahon Ryan Child Advocacy Center and the Kara Fund!  
    Never been to the Museum?  It is great!  We are located down Restaurant Row across from the Coliseum near Twin Trees.  Our hours are 10am to 5pm.  There are many demonstrations and lots of great information in this fun space!
   See you there!

Wednesday, September 7th
6:30pm
Making Native American Flutes
with Mike Bloomquist
Sponsored by the Woodworking SIG
Demonstration held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
Hybrid Meeting - Both In-Person & Via Zoom
The Native American flute, also commonly referred to as the love or courting flute, is a musical instrument entrenched in American culture for many years.  It is held in front of the player, has open finger holes, and has two chambers - one for collecting the breath of the player and a second which creates the sound.  Rescheduled from August, the September Woodworking SIG event will feature, Mike Bloomquist demonstrating how to make a Native American flute similar to the ones in the photo.
     This session will be a hybrid session with the ability to attend either in-person or via Zoom.  Always check the website and your email to determine if that is changed.
The Zoom link will be sent to members a couple days before the event.  If you want to attend and are not a member, please send a request to woodcny@gmail.com.
     We love to see what you are working on so bring your latest to the meeting for our Show & Tell session.  If you can't make it and have Show & Tell, send photos your projects via email to woodcny@gmail.com prior to 3pm on Wednesday, September 7th.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.    
NOTICE:  An email providing instructions and a link to download the August newsletter was distributed to members on Saturday, July 30th.  If you are a member and did not receive, please first check your Spam folder, then your Trash folder.  If you still do not find it, please send a note to the club mailbox woodcny@gmail.com (this is the email the newsletter comes from).  We do not post the current month's newsletter in the public area for 4 months.

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Contact Information
Post Office Box 661
Syracuse, NY  13214
woodcny@gmail.com
Proud to be a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners (AAW)
The Woodworkers of Central New York is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit Corporation
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the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau
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