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Welcome to Gold Country Woodturners

We are a group of woodturners who live in the northern Sierra Nevada foothills concentrated  around Grass Valley and Nevada City, California.  We share our work, methods, new ideas, and demonstrate tools and techniques with each other and in our community.  Between meetings we are available to help each other, gather wood, and search out learning and teaching opportunities.  We are an active chapter of the American Association of Woodturners with approximately 75 members.

Through the year, we schedule several hands-on workshops on various topics and work to help our members achieve their woodturning goals.

Our general meetings  focus on education, sharing our woodworking journey and fun.  To keep the business stuff to a minimum at general meetings we have a monthly board of directors meeting that handles most of our business stuff and all members are invited to attend.  See  Club Events  for meeting schedule.
    
 We welcome new members of all skill levels, and visitors who want to explore becoming a woodturner.  GUESTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO ALL MEETINGS!

Want to know more about woodturning?  See HERE

Women In Turning

Women in Turning (WIT) is the newest committee of the AAW, bringing together women worldwide who share a passion for woodturning. 

Member Cheryl Lewis is the Gold County Woodturner's liaison with the AAW.  To learn more about WIT click the logo. 


Recap of February Meeting

Cheryl Lewis - Encaustic Bowls

The meeting video says it all.


February 2020 Show & Tell 

Shavings Session Sept.4, 2019

Guide to a Startup Woodturners Shop for Under $1,000.

Jerry Hall initiated this guide a few years, as of Nov. 2017 it is up to date and Jerry will continue to keep it up to date.  

Also available is a Turners Reference Guide which describes basic tool,  their use and sharping guidelines and lots of other turning tidbits.


Monthly Meeting 

April 22, 2020  6:30  Nevada City Elk Club

Canceled due to concerns about the COVID-19 virus.

During this time when we are all staying at home and can not hold our regular meetings a Facebook Group has been setup for club members only.  The Groups purpose is to provide a platform where club members can still communicate and share picture, comments and even videos.  Sign in and go to the members  only page for details.  Or call Cheryl Lewis ( PH 770 845-4942) or Karl Miller ( 530-206-6289) for help. 

 

Map and Directions

Empty Bowls

  

   And the final answer is 152 Bowls

 Congratulations turners we broke our record from past years by turning 152 bowls for the Empty Bowl Project.  Not only did we turn more bowls than previous years, but in my opinion the quality of the bowls was much higher!

   Empty Bowl is a fundraiser for Hospitality House, our homeless shelter in Grass Valley.  The event will be held at Peace Lutheran Church, 828 W. Main Street, Grass Valley this Saturday, March 14th.  For $30/person you can further support Hospitality House by showing up for one of the three settings: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., or 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  For that price you will have a simple meal of bread and soup plus a bowl to take home.  You will have an amazing choice of wooden and ceramic bowl plus wonderful soups donated by local restaurants. 

   Thank you all for your contributions of bowls, you are an awesome bunch of tuners!

Karl Miller, Empty Bowl Coordinator 

Read article  from "TOWN TALK RD"


Beads of Courage Boxes

Instructions 

Consider joining  The American Association of Woodturners and receive the American Woodturner and access to all past articles and hundreds of vetted videos.

Upcoming events

Videos of Past Club Demonstrations

The above link accesses the Club YouTube channel

  Cosmic Cloud Videos 

   

At the Sept meeting Neal DeVore showed a platter which he colored using iridescent colors, see links to  two YouTube videos below

Tim Yoder - Cosmic Cloud
 Gary Lowe - Cosmic Cloud

Woodturning Videos 

From As Wood Turns:  Christmas  Ornament Hanger

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