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Artisan’s Showcase – Lee Valley
“Artisan Showcase” event – The dates are Sat. Apr 5th & Sun, Apr 6th from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm each day for an . If you wish, you can set up earlier.
If you are selling items, all sales are between you and the customer. Cash, portable debit machine, e-transfer, etc. There will be no commission taken by Lee Valley. All the sales are yours.
Each vendor will be setup with/on one of the work benches from the seminar room. Any signage you want is up to you. By all means, bring business cards or pamphlets.
If you are interested in displaying your wares, please contact Scott Reid at Lee Valley Tools Victoria. sreid@leevalley.com.
Artisan’s Showcase – continues
Lee Valley on Sunday from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VIWG Meetings
The next meeting of the Vancouver Island Woodworkers Guild is Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 at Lee Valley Tools in Colwood. Glenn Bartley will be talking about dovetails.
Assist with Wood Recovery Milling
Needed: One volunteer with a pick-up truck, as well as some extra helpers for the morning of April 12th.
Our Sawyer Devin has some wood ready for us to pick up at his property in Rocky point. I will use my own small truck and we will need one volunteer with a truck, as well as two extra volunteers. The work involves scaling the wood and loading it into the trucks. We’ll then bring it to the storage at Neil’s and stack it.
Devin is a Guild member. He has been doing all this milling by himself. He would like some help, mostly in moving/turning the logs on his sawmill. If you are interested I can put you in touch with Devin.
If you can help out on Saturday April 12th please contact Dany at:
danycoulombe@shaw.ca or woodrecovery@viwg.com
VIWG Pender Island Shop Tour
VIWG Pender Island Shop Tour – Saturday, April 19th, 2025
Plans are underway for a VIWG group day trip to Pender Island. So far we are scheduled to visit the shop of Dara WoodWorks. (https://www.darawoodworks.com/) Dave Roberts will talk about how they salvage Arbutus wood, vacuum dry it in their kiln, and the various forms of wood turning they do from wooden hats, bowls, and vases. Alison will also showcase the pepper mills that she turns as well as the hand carving she does. Their shop has several different lathes including a CNC Rose Engine that they use to produce very unique texturing on their turnings. Lunch will be at the Port Browning Pub in between stops. I am also in contact with Run Underhill of the Pender Carvers Group for a second stop on the tour.
This trip will be a full day due to the ferry scheduling, with a tentative meet up time before 9am and a return on the 5:30 pm ferry from Pender Island. We will need to carpool and have some volunteer drivers. Please RSVP asap so that I can finalize numbers and begin to plan carpool groups. Email workshops@viwg.com if you are interested.
