Welcome to our Home PageNotice: February Guild Meeting
Did you ever find yourself endlessly repeating steps to adjust your jointer with no improvement? This talk is a look at the power tool setup issues you won’t find in the manual. Shimming, cleaning, surface grinding, upgrading, and rebuilds of the major stationary power tools will be covered. Find out when an upgraded part is worth it. And finally, when is it time to give up and buy a new tool? This won’t be a sales pitch but there will be relevant products available for viewing and hands-on demonstrations. Bring your stories, rebuild project, setup devices, or photos of upgrades to share. Rod Burrows, Vice President Tech Support/Customer Service, of Rikon Tools will present at their Billerica corporate headquarters. Notice: New January 2010 Newsletter Check it out! Notice: 2009-2010 Guild Brochure The 2009-2010 Guild Brochure is available on the Executive Board page of this web site. Notice: Emgw Co-sponsors woodworking courses with the Eliot School 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. Notice: Asian Longhorned Beetle or "ALB" Keep up to date on this serious threat. Click Here for more information. Notice: Guild Project: Display Case Here is a preliminary sketch of the Display Case that is our current charitable project to be built by members of the guild. 
Notice: Wood for sale: (Tartaglia) I have a variety of species that I sell to other woodworkers as it is far in excess of what I will ever use myself. All lumber is air dryed. Most is 4/4 and eight feet in length but I do have some 8/4 and 12/4 and some longer and shorter lengths. Species include: red oak, ash, red maple, cherry, spalted maple, pine, and birch. Some I have a lot of and some just a little. Nothing is graded and you may pick over as long as you re-stack when done. Pricing is a buck a board foot for pine, two bucks for most hardwood, and three bucks for cherry and spalted maple. I am very liberal on measurement and always throw in a little extra as I do not do this as a business. Notice: Wood for sale: (Cripanuk) Cherry and Walnut lumber, four-quarter thick, for sale by Jim Cripanuk. The price is $5.00 FAS and $3.50 for Number One. All from two logs, one about 100 bf 16 feet long, the outher about 375 bf 17 ft long. Click Here for pictures. Box of Blocks ProjectThe 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 will bring 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) A Message from the Executive Board
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 
Mission of EMGWThe 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. 
|
|