It's not too early to prepare for the End-of-Year gathering that will be hosted by Ken and Trish at their house in Sharon.  All guild members and their family are invited for the gathering.  Save the date - June 8th.  Pre-registration, which opens May 1st, is required to better plan for the event.  The process for pre-registration is found separately at Pre-Registration Process for End-of-Year Meeting below.  At the gathering the following will be on the agenda:

• Guild news
• Elections: 2024-2025 Board of Directions

Nominations closed on April 25th for candidates for the four positions of the 2024-2025 EMGW Board of Directors.  Following EMGW bylaws, Jeff Clunie, Chair of the EMGW Nominating Committee, recorded nominations and reports that all four offices have uncontested nominees. Here is the outcome of the nomination period:

Candidates for President: Rob Carver (former V-P)

Candidates for Vice-President: Andrew Davis

Candidates for Treasurer: John George (incumbent)

Candidates for Secretary: Tom Shirley (incumbent)

Elections will be held on June 8th at the June EMGW End-of-Year Meeting, which is the only avenue for casting your vote.

• Show and Tell: Demonstrations of member workmanship.  Optionally bring a piece or two of something you made.  If your piece is almost finished, try to finish it for Show and Tell.
• Complimentary lunch

After this meeting we will break for the summer and resume in September.

Pre-Registration Process for End-of-Year Gathering. (Vincent Valvo)  In order to plan for activities and lunch, pre-registration is required and lasts from May 1st to June 5th.  Simply, navigate to the Upcoming Guild Event gadget on the website HOME page and click the Annual Guild Social Meeting: News, Election, Show & Tell, Lunch event for June 10th.  It's easier if you first log in.

Instructions are presented upon entering the event description.  The first step is to click the Register button.  Further steps request your attendance, the number of guests, if any, are accompanying you, and if you are bringing an item(s) for Show and Tell. Continue to follow instructions and click the Confirm button once entering the data.  Your confirmation will be promptly emailed to you.

If you need to cancel an existing registration, return to the same upcoming guild event, click the Already registered link and follow the cancellation instructions.  If you need to change the registration information you entered, first cancel your registration and then create a new registration.

Andrew Hunter's Portfolio From His Guild Presentation

February 2024

Due to a strong request to know more about Andrew Hunter's work, Marc Holland has provided pictures of Andrew's furniture, work space, and other related pictures as seen below.  Scroll to the right or left for more pages. You can also click a picture for an enlarged view and then move to the next or previous picture.

In addition there were requests for a list of Andrew's presentation handouts click Japanese Tool Resources and Books and Japanese Tool Dealers and More Tool Resources for PDFs that can be downloaded or printed.

Considering getting into woodworking?  A team of members of EMGW has written a guidebook targeted for new woodworkers and a refresher for other woodworkers.