Central
Virginia
Woodturners
                   

Welcome to the CVW Website! 


The Central Virgina Woodturners (CVW), located in Shenandoah Valley in Crimora, VA, is an affiliate of the American Association of Woodturners, serving turners from Charlottesville to Staunton to Harrisonburg.

CVW exists to serve its members who are hobbyists, amateurs, craftsmen and professionals.  We enjoy a commonality of interest and provide each other knowledge, information, assistance and encouragement in developing and refining our woodturning skills. 

Monthly meetings are usually held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, at the Crimora Community Center. Meeting schedules, location, and changes found on the Calendar page.  Click here for the current newsletter.  

Visitors are always welcome.


Timely News:
 

Tom Evans sent this Klingspor opportunity along:

Klingspor's Woodworking Shop wants to to give you and your Woodworking Club members that may have a blog or a website an opportunity to be featured on our blog on our blog/website. With this we will also include their link on our site www.woodworkingshop.comPlease forward this email to anyone that may be interested and they can click the link and complete the form.  http://tinyurl.com/y9tzwj8
 
Below is a coupon code for Free Shipping, please feel free to pass the savings on to your club members. Enter the coupon code at checkout or when placing your order give the coupon code to the customer service representative when you call 1-800-228-0000.
 
Please update member listings so that all your members receive their discounts when ordering.
 
Thank you for being a part of our Woodworking Club & Guild Program!!
 
 
Receive FREE FLAT RATE SHIPPING ($7.99 value) on orders over $50 with coupon code 
FSCLUB
. Offer good until 8/31/10.
 
(feel free to pass this offer along to your club members by email, meetings, websites, or even in newsletters) 

Piper Stephens  

KLINGSPOR’S

WOODWORKING SHOP

Phone 828-327-7263 Ext 201 Fax 828-327-4634


Also, from Starke Smith:

Tim Lexeme the wood eBay sales man in Waynesboro has his old lathe for sale.

He just bought a new 3520 and needs to move the old lathe.

He would like 150.00 for the lathe. Call him at 540-949-6017.

Most of the time you have to leave a message, but he will get back quickly.


for a fine photo essay on the David Ellsworth demo put up by the Woodturners of the Virginias club, go to
http://picasaweb.google.com/WoodturnersofVAs/DavidEllsworth#


Note: links on left bar for the John Noffsinger and  Tom Evan's demos, as well as David Ellsworth.

We have a new local forum available to us now, courtesy of Jeff Fleisher of WoVA.

The VA Woodturners Discussion Forums/Information Center  is now up and running!  Brand new, so be the first in your area to make a post.  There are five different forums for all us woodturners:  General Discussion, Tips & Techniques, Tool Discussion and Reviews, Tools for Sale, and Class Reviews. It is now listed in our Resources page too.

CVW is a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners, the largest organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of woodturning.

Please direct comments and suggestions about this website to Webmaster

All material on this website is Copyright 2008, 2009 by Central Virginia Woodturners,
unless otherwise noted.

Next Meeting Tuesday, July 20, 6:30 - 9:00 pm

 

 
Elbert Dale,
Master of the Skew





 




 Jeff Fleisher was our featured guest  June 15.  He gave us a fine presentation on the history many possibilities of chip carving.





For a brief tour of his photos
as well as access to his powerpoint
you can download and watch,
click here.














Jeff Fleisher on
Chip Carving


VA Symposium

 
March newsletter
John Noffsinger

Tom Evans Demo


David Ellsworth
Directions