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6/16/2012; 10:00 AM; Jeff Clunie's home
5 Hickory Drive
Medfield, MA., 02052
The BBQ usually runs into mid-afternoon. This is a rain or shine event.
This meeting is more than a BBQ. We have election of the officers for next year and a tool auction. Members are encouraged to bring tools that they no longer use for auction.
The tool auction has been very successful in previous years. One member successfully bid $50 for a Porter Cable 4" Belt Sander in excellent shape. Proceeds usually go to the Guild, However, you may choose to keep or share the proceeds with the Guild. If you have something to auction and are not planning to donate the proceeds, let Jack Murphy know what you would like to do before hand. Jack will be our auctioneer.
This year we will have a “Belt Sander Race” ( Fritz, our Race Mgr, will issue a separate E-Mail with instructions.)
The food and beverages (non-alcoholic) will be provided by the Guild. We will have hamburgers and hot-dogs, as well as all the fixings. You are also welcome to bring something, but it is not necessary.
Last year we had several wives and partners join us. We hope more of you bring your spouses or significant others or partners and children. NO PETS PLEASE.
Very Important: Please let us know ASAP if you plan to attend and how many in your group so we can plan the food and drink. Also, please bring chairs.
Hope to see you all here.
The EMGW Board
For directions to Jeff's house see the Future Events page of this web site.
An exhibit of work made by students and alumni trained at North Bennet Street School. The exhibit is in the lobby of 125 High Street in downtown Boston and is open to the public May 7 thru May 18, 2012. The suggested viewing hours are 8:00 am to 8:00 pm daily.
We invite you to hop on over to WOOD's Top Shop Tip forum. The shop tips forum is for you to share your shop tips that might be of benefit to other woodworkers. Our tips editor, periodically reviews all of the tips posted here for publication, and all tips are eligible to win our Top Shop Tip tool prize worth at least $300, as-well-as $100 per published tip. Go to WOOD magazine's Top Shop Tips forum at woodmagazine.com/tipsforum.
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The 2009-2010 Guild Brochure is available on this web site.
The Eliot School has been teaching since 1676. In 1889 the school focused on manual arts and has been teaching classes in woodworking and other crafts since. The Guild is proud to have formed an alliance with The Eliot School to help continue and support our mutual goal of educating and promoting excellence in woodworking.
The Guild has agreed to co-sponsor several woodworking classes and workshops offered through The Eliot School starting this fall. The fall classes that we are co-sponsoring are: Basic Furniture Design, Furniture Finishing, Gilding & Frame Restoration, and Inlay & Veneer. The workshops are Wood Carving, Wood Turning, and Surface Decoration on Wood. These classes and workshops are taught by professional woodworking instructors. For a full description of the fall classes, instructor, time, and tuition check out The Eliot School's web site. The Eliot School, located in a beautiful residential neighborhood in a building built in 1831 near Jamaica Pond, has a complete and extensive wood shop. Plenty of on-street parking is available.
Also watch for a mini-course on SketchUp for Furniture taught by the Guild's own expert, Jim Russell. This is scheduled for winter term at The Eliot School.
Guild Members will receive at 10% discount on tuition on co-sponsored classes. When registering, please say you are a member of the Eastern Massachusetts Guild of Woodworkers.
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Here is a sketch of the Display Case that was our 2010 charitable project, built by members of the guild.
The project to build boxes of blocks was completed in October. The Clinton Early Childhood Resource Center provides services for children from Clinton and surrounding towns. Many of these families participate in the Parent Child Home Program,and will use these blocks to support their children's early language and social/emotional development. The guild is bringing great joy to a few very young (3 to 4) children by providing them with a very important toy and learning tool.
(Click here for Clinton Email and Pictures)(Click here for project pictures)
The Guild has designed, fabricated, and delivered a credenza for the conference room at the Molly Bish Institute at the Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner. Click on an image to enlarge
The Eastern Massachusetts Guild of Woodworkers (EMGW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the woodworking community through the sharing of information in the art, technique, and business of woodworking. We aspire to these goals in order to promote and foster interest in our craft for both the aspiring and skilled woodworker.
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