by admin | Aug 26, 2019 | Community Outreach
ON August 24, 2019, a group of members headed on an adventure to the Deanery Project Lto do some volunteer work in their woodshop. We started our trip with a stop to visit members Mary Elizabeth O’Toole and Stephen Parsons at their home woodshop in West...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | Events, Tools and Equipment
On August 4, a small number of members met at Elmsdale Lumber, where we had a tour of the full facility and got answers to all our questions – and we had lots of questions. Elmsdale Lumber is celebrating 100 years of operation in 2017 so it has a long history...
by admin | Apr 25, 2017 | Events
Thanks to Stephen Parsons for this trip report On Saturday April 22, 2017, a contingent of AWA members took the opportunity to visit the factory workshops and studio of Expressions of Wood, a furniture manufacturer in Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia. The owner,...
by admin | Oct 9, 2015 | Meeting, Shop Tips and Tricks
On Saturday, October 3, 2015, 10 AWA members spent the day visiting shops and homes on the South Shore. It was a great day and it is too bad that more members were not able to make the trip. What a time we had! Our first stop was a post and beam...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Shop Tips and Tricks, Tools and Equipment
On Sept. 26, 2015, a small group of members took the opportunity to take a shop tour of three of our members: Ted Monk, Bob Baird and Gary Dumas. The shops were quite different, reflecting the available space, the preferred wood projects, and the personality of the...