Central Virginia Woodturners is a club dedicated to the art and craft of woodturning. We meet once a month with a goal of helping members enjoy turning and increase their skills through discussions at the meetings, demonstrations, a lending library, and club-sponsored activities. Demonstrations are both by individual club members and by occassional outside turners of note who are brought in. Additionally there is hands-on coaching by the more skilled members at one of the eight lathes at the meeting site.
A typical meeting starts with a group business meeting, followed by an extensive show-and-tell session of members’ latest work, followed by a silent auction of donated wood for the club benefit, and finished by a demonstration of some aspect of turning.
An additional goal is to bring in younger newer members to perpetuate the club. There is a mentoring program in place to help achieve this goal.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                             
Central Virginia Woodturners works in close cooperation with the American Association of Woodturners as well as with other adjacent Virginia woodturner clubs. It also joins the other Virginia clubs in conducting a bi-annual Virginia Woodturners Symposium. See   http://virginiawoodturners.org/