Volunteers are needed to help clean up the woodworking shop at Jackson Park Ministries.  Jim Emery and Jackson Park Ministries have graciously extended their hospitality and freely opened the woodworking shop to the Charlotte Woodturners for the past couple of years for our monthly meetings and other events.  This is a small way that to [...]

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On Thursday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m., Sam McDowell will demonstrate “Turning Green, Using Cherry Burls.”  If you have a burl and need advice on how to turn it, bring it in for Sam’s opinion.    Enter the raffle and have a chance to win a turning by Anatoly Tsiris, our “Member of the Month” turner for [...]

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On Thursday, July 15 at 6:30 p.m., Jim Duxbury will demonstrate the construction of his Traditional model wooden kaleidoscope. This kaleidoscope is a typical example of a traditional 3 mirror scope with an oil-filled object box and prismed exterior lens contained in a rotatable end cylinder. He will show the fabrication of his unique cone [...]

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