Waikato Guild of Woodcraft is pleased to offer the opportunity to learn from Maori Carver Michael Matchitt, to give some tuition on Maori carving at the WQW club rooms. Thursday nights commencing at 6.30pm You can get an introduction to Michael & his work in the below link. https://www.michaelmatchitt.com The sessions will cover: Carving Kowhaiwhai […]
Three of our most experienced members, Lenard Helm, Dave Watson, and Keith Lang, will be showing us some of their approaches to chair making. This will be an opportunity learn some new skills in a very ancient craft.
Supervisors of the weekly workshops are invited to a special meeting in preparation for the coming year. They will discuss building security and safety concerns in the workshop. This year with the opportunities provided by our Facebook page and our new website, supervisors are encouraged to both “post” photos and stories and encourage other members […]
Rodney has invited us to visit his new workshop and Walter is opening up his as well. This is always worth while to see how others have set themselves up to perform the tasks we all have in common and to learn from their experience.
This is the early information we have for Neil Joynts tour in MAY 2020. When the dates and schedule are fixed then this page will be updated. More info can be found here: https://naw.org.nz/event/neil-joynt-tour/
We will hold our monthly Guild meeting as usual on the third Tuesday of the month. Due to the restrictions on numbers required by level 2 we decided not to have a visiting demonstration in case we had to postpone. Instead, there will be an informal discussion and presentation of members work done during lockdown. […]
Now that we are free to meet we will be having a day at the club with: Fred Irvine and Roger Dean doing two demonstrations each. The day will commence at 9.00am and finish at approx. 5.00pm. The club will provide a BBQ lunch and the cost for the day is $10 for members of […]
The demonstrator is Bob Yandle from the South Auckland Club
,We are having a open shed day on the Saturday of 25th July for you to visit at your leisure. The following people are opening their sheds - David Croucher, 8 Ayrshire Drive8 Ayrshire Drive, Grandview Heights, Hamilton 3200, Grandview Heights, Hamilton 3200 Rodney Haynes, 27 Cullimore Street, Pukete, Hamilton 3200 Bob Hoyle, 18B Highgrove […]
Support person ( Angela, club treasurer) [email protected] Mob 0211590915 Accommadation @ the Blue Light lodge Registrations are out on January Friday 31st January 2020
Neil Joynt has been woodturning off and on for 25 years and became drawn to being creative and passionate in the last ten years. He is a self-taught wood artist living in a rural location in Tokoroa New Zealand. Prior to this interest in woodcraft Neil always had a creative bent. In his late teens […]
As noted in Grant's letter, we will be able to view some of the stories and photos that Diego Ribeiro and our interviewers have been making over past months. It will be a very special night to celebrate our members and their contribution to our club over many years.