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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.
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Monday, October 3rd 
​6:30pm
Board of Directors Meeting
The Board of Directors will hold with bi-monthly meeting on Monday, October 3rd in the Community Room at Belgium Cold Springs Fire Department, 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville and if needed via Zoom.  All members are welcome to attend the meeting.  If you wish to receive the meeting link, please send an email to woodcny@gmail.com by 3pm on the 3rd.
NOTE:  This is a date change due to some conflicts.

Wednesday, October 5th
6:30pm
A Talk with Mike
with Mike Daniels
Sponsored by the Woodworking SIG
Hybrid Meeting
Both In-Person & Via Zoom
Talk held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
We welcome Mike Danial back to our meeting on October 5th. Previously, Mike's Stickley career of over four decades in the craft of fine furniture making and restoration allowed him to discern the wide range of subtle design and quality variables in American Tramp Art. This led him to collect what he saw as the best available pieces for his collection, and many were featured in the March 2018 exhibit, No Idle Hands: The Makers and Myths of Tramp Art, at The Museum of International Folk Arts in Santa Fe, NM.  Currently, Mike has turned his attention to another marginalized Folk Art style which emerged in the late 19th and early 20th Century. These were objects created for primitive dwellings in Western and Central Canada by Ukrainian, Doukhobor, Hutterites and Mennonites immigrants from Eastern Europe. In an effort to engage with the objects in a tangible way, Mike built a reproduction of a Ukrainian Wall Shelf from the period. It is the story of this endeavor that is the subject of his talk.
     This session will be a hybrid session with the ability to attend either in-person or via Zoom.  Guests are always welcome.  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, October 5th.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.  

Tuesday, October 11th
6:30pm
Segmented Turning
with Jim Kent
Sponsored by the Turning SIG
Hybrid Meeting
Both In-Person & Via Zoom
Demonstration held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
Beaded illusion turning is an art form that has become very popular because of its striking design possibilities. While the beadwork is the first and most obvious detail, what is not so obvious is the underlying segmented piece that allows for the cutting and burning of the beaded lines. Segmented vessels, vases, and bowls are a specialty of Jim Kent because the forms become the basis for the complicated beaded illusion art designed by Shelley and Jim Kent. Jim will show how he plans, safely cuts the many pieces, builds the segmented rings, and puts the rings together for final turning.
      This session will be a hybrid session with the ability to attend either in-person or via Zoom.  Guests are always welcome.  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, October 11th.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.  

Saturday, October 15th
​9am to 12 noon
Open Workshop - Open to ALL Members
** Weather Permitting **
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.  

Wednesday, October 19th
6:30pm
Segmentation vs Intarsia
with Sherry Kelsey & Barbara Raymond-LaPrease
Sponsored by the Scrolling SIG
Hybrid Meeting - Both In-Person & Via Zoom
Demonstration held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
Our Scrollers will begin a multi-meeting focus on two different wood-shaping techniques that produce decorative woodworking pieces that appear to be artfully carved.  The two - segmentation and intarsia - will be discussed in general at this session.  Then, we will focus on segmentation with the intent of each member producing a piece using any of the free patterns out there or any pattern they wish.  Sherry Kelsey and Barbara Raymond-LaPrease will team up to present this session.
     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, October 19th.  We'll add them to the PowerPoint slides so everyone else can see them.    
NOTE DATE CHANGE - Meeting is one week later than normal due to events at Beaver  Lake

Thursday,  October 27th
5:30pm-8pm
Gather Starting at 5pm
Carving a Gourd
A Demo By Arlene Schlueter 
Held at Beaver Lake Nature Center
Sponsored by the Carving SIG

In-Person Only
Arlene Schlueter will demonstrate how to carve a gourd at this session.  It is not a workshop but a demo. You may bring a project to carve quietly while Arlene is demonstrating.  We will videotape this demonstration.
     ​   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.

Craft Sales to Benefit Local Children's Charities
Also Demonstrations of Turning, Scrolling, Carving, etc.
Friday,  November 4th - 4pm-8pm
Saturday, November 5th - 9am-4pm
47th Annual Artisan Show & Market
Sponsored by Manlius Historical Society
Held at Manlius Village Center
​1 Arkie Albanese Avenue
The club will be selling craft items donated by our members at this annual show sponsored by the Manlius Historical Society.  Our craft sales help fulfill one of our club's mission - to provide yearly donations to local children's charities.  Again this year the Society asked the club to demonstrate our crafts during the event.  Our turners will turn pens as part of our annual contribution to the national effort to provide pens to active duty and recovering members of the military.  The scrollers will demonstrate how ornaments like those we sell are created.  The carvers will demonstrate their craft, some of which are in the craft sale.  We will also likely have an expert there demonstrating some hand tool skills.
     Come visit us during the event to learn more about the club and find some great gifts for you or others!   See you there!

16th Annual Woodworker's Challenge
Saturday, November 12th
Doors Open to Register Projects at 9:30am
Registration Closes at 10:30am

Event held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
The club will hold it annual member competition on Saturday, November 12th.  All members as of October 15th may compete in this in-person only event.  Members can enter one project in any of the 15 categories as outlined here. 
     This event was moved to a weekend day to encourage more participation in the event.  Individual meetings/demonstrations by the Woodworking SIG, Turning SIG, and Scrolling SIG will not occur in November.  The Carving SIG will hold a demonstration on the use of a power carver on their usual date, Thursday, November 17th.  As usual, all members may attend any and all events presented by any other SIG.   

Thursday,  November 17th
5:30pm-8pm
Gather Starting at 5pm
Using a Power Carver
A Demo By Ed Siegel
Held at Beaver Lake Nature Center
Sponsored by the Carving SIG
In-Person Only

Sunday,  December 4th    1pm-4pm
Holiday Event &
Annual Meeting of the Corporation
with Elections

Event held in the Community Room at Station One
Belgium Cold Springs Fire Dept., 7920 River Rd, Baldwinsville, NY
​Directions here
NOTICE:  An email providing instructions and a link to download the October newsletter was distributed to members on Thursday, September 29th.  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
​We are registered with the New York State Department of State & 
the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau
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