MWWG MONTHLY MEETING
2025-08-23 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Topic: Making a wood screw Moxon type vice using a thread box and tap. If attendees bring the proper pre-prepared materials, we can thread them.
Date and Time: Saturday, August 23rd, starting at 10 am and ending no later than 5 pm. Late arrivals ok, see below for more info.
Location: Michael Toivonen’s Corvallis home and workshop. See Newsletter for directions.

MWWG BOARD MEETING
2025-08-28 16:30 - 18:30 | Brie Library – Corvallis, CORVALLIS, Oregon, 97330

MWWG MONTHLY MEETING
2025-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | 400 SW 2nd Street, Corvallis, 400 SW 2nd Street, corvallis, OR, 97330, United States
Join professional woodworker Nick Clark for an engaging presentation on his journey through the craft of woodworking. Nick will share a brief history of his professional path highlighting the milestones, challenges, and key influences that shaped his approach to design and craftsmanship.
The talk will also explore essential design considerations and dive into a variety of joinery techniques, both traditional and modern. Whether you’re a seasoned woodworker or just beginning your craft, this is an opportunity to gain insight from Nick’s experience and expand your understanding of thoughtful, durable woodworking design.
Nick’s website: www.touchdesigninc.com
Date and Time: Monday, September 15, 7:00 PM
Location: Wade Hardware,
Note: ten chairs will be available from Wade (thank you). If you’d like to ensure that you have a place to sit, bring your own folding chair.

MWWG MONTHLY MEETING
2025-10-20 19:00 - 21:00
TBDWoodturning with Gary, Sam, and Michael
Date and Time: Monday, October 20, time to be confirmed
Location: To be determined, email to follow once space is confirmed
While there won’t be a live woodturning demonstration, we will have a midi lathe, a selection of turning tools, lathe accessories, and finished turnings on display.
Our speakers, Gary Irwin, Sam Stern, and Michael Toivonen, will lead a discussion geared toward those interested in getting started with woodturning. However, experienced turners are also encouraged to attend, join the conversation, and share their insights.
Topics will include:
• Choosing your first lathe
• Essential tools and accessories
• Approaches to learning to turn well
• And finally, safety

MWWG BOARD MTG
2025-11-20 18:30 - 19:00 | Consumer Power Bld, 6990 West Hills Road, Philomath, OR
We didn’t discuss it at the Biere Library but I am in favor of having a brief board meeting at Consumers on 11/20, brief meaning start at 6:30. Besides continuing our discussion of future meeting topics and open position recruitment I like to having one in hopes of getting someone to show who wants to help.

MWWG MONTHLY MEETING
2025-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Consumer Power Bld, 6990 West Hills Road, Philomath, OR
November Meeting Date and Topic
Our November meeting will be held at 7 pm on Thursday November 20th at the Consumers Power community meeting room, 6990 SW West Hills Rd, Corvallis. The board has decided to have our meetings on various days of the week, not just Mondays, in hopes that members we rarely see will find it easier to attend.
The November meeting topic will be a free-form sharing by attendees of new projects, tools or jigs. The amount of time for each will be dependent on how many join in.
Since the gift giving holidays will be close at hand the sharing of smaller projects suitable for gifts seems especially appropriate but really, anything goes.
We will be having the raffle so bring some small bills so you can buy a ticket, and if you have items to contribute to the raffle they will be much appreciated. Tools and books are the most appropriate. Larger items, such as lumber, are possible but if they aren’t taken you will need to take them home.

MONTHLY MEETING 2026
2026-01-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Consumer Power Bld, 6990 West Hills Road, Philomath, OR
January Meeting
Date and Time: Monday, January 19, 7:00 PM
Location: Consumers Power Board Room
6990 W Hills Rd, Philomath, OR 97370
Pull around to the back of the building, park and come in
Topic: Board update – lots to report
Topic generation for 2026 meetings
42nd Annual Exhibition of Fine Woodworking planning
Raffle Yes! Bring your bills, win a prize, and support the club.

MWWG-MONTHLY MEETING
2026-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | WADE HARDWARE, 400 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR
The Mid-Willamette Woodworkers Guild’s February meeting will be held on Monday the 23rd from 7-9 pm. The location will once again be at Wade Hardware in downtown Corvallis.

This meeting will feature a special guest speaker: Autumn Peterson of Heritage Finishes and Summerbeam Books in Philomath.

While Autumn’s Heritage Finishes specializes in natural oil based products her talk will be about finishes and finishing in general, not just the products she manufactures and sells.

Besides her experience with finishes Autumn is a past vice president of the Timber Framer’s Guild and has a masters degree in architecture from The University of Oregon where she specialized in historic preservation. In 2023 she opened Summerbeam Books on Main Street, Philomath. A specialist bookstore, Summerbeam Books stocks one of the most complete selections of books in the US on woodworking, house construction, architecture and allied subjects.

There’s a lot to know about finishing, the final stage of our woodworking projects. We are lucky to have someone with Autumn Peterson’s expertise living in our area and willing to share her knowledge with us. Hope to see you next month at Wade!
Michael Toivonen

MWWG - LECTURE - Nick Clark - WOOD BENDING TECHNIQUES
2026-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Corvallis Museum, 411 SW 2nd St,, Corvallis, OR, 97330, United States
Mark Your Calendars, it’s time for two special woodworking events: an all-day Saturday demonstration and a Friday night Museum talk, both with master woodworker Nick Clark.
As a follow up to Yuri Kobayashi’s 2023 steam bending demo Nick’s will be focused on the other wood bending technique, bent lamination. As an extra bonus Nick will demonstrate his methods for producing the custom veneers he uses in some of his projects.
The location of the demo will be the Crescent Valley High School Woodshop, and the date and time will be Saturday March 7th beginning at 9 am. As was the case in 2023 there will be a special event charge for Guild members. Note: you will as well need to be current on your 2026 Guild dues. Stay tuned for the extra amount and other details but be prepared for a very reasonable rate for a demo of this caliber.

On the prior night, Friday March 6th at 7 pm, in place of our regular March meeting we will hold a special event open to all in the Collins Room at the Benton County Historical Society Museum: Nick Clark: A Woodworker’s Journey from the UK to Corvallis

In the first half Nick will describe how a “lad” from an English village who began his woodworking career in a traditional UK 5-year woodworking apprenticeship program at age 16 ended up a master woodworker in the Corvallis, Oregon area.

The second half of Nick’s presentation will focus on his woodworking projects and the techniques he has refined over 40 years of furniture making and building high end cabinetry in the UK, Berkeley, CA, Ashland, OR and now the Corvallis area.
Those of you who have met Nick and seen his work know he is both an expert woodworker and an entertaining speaker. His museum talk should be an event that our membership, their families, friends and anyone with an interest in woodworking will enjoy attending.

While free, since the Museum charges $300 for a Friday night rental of the Collins room there will a suggested donation of $5-10 per person (in cash) to help cover the Guild’s cost and to simultaneously contribute to the success of our beautiful museum via rental of its facilities.

MWWG - LAMINATION BENDING WORKSHOP- BY NICK
2026-03-07 09:00 - 14:30
Mark Your Calendars, its time for two special woodworking events: an all-day Saturday demonstration and a Friday night Museum talk, both with master woodworker Nick Clark.
As a follow up to Yuri Kobayashi’s 2023 steam bending demo Nick’s will be focused on the other wood bending technique, bent lamination. As an extra bonus Nick will demonstrate his methods for producing the custom veneers he uses in some of his projects.
The location of the demo will be the Crescent Valley High School Woodshop, and the date and time will be Saturday March 7th beginning at 9 am. As was the case in 2023 there will be a special event charge for Guild members. Note: you will as well need to be current on your 2026 Guild dues. Stay tuned for the extra amount and other details but be prepared for a very reasonable rate for a demo of this caliber.

42nd MWWG ANNUAL EXHIBITION
2026-04-23 - 2026-04-25 | CORVALLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 645 NW Monroe Ave, CORVALLIS, Oregon, 97330

MWWG SHOW RECEPTION
2026-04-24 17:30 - 19:30 | CORVALLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 645 NW Monroe Ave, CORVALLIS, Oregon, 97330
Come join us to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the MID-WILLAMETTE WOODWORKERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION.

MWWG TRANSITION MEETING
2026-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Consumer Power Bld, 6990 West Hills Road, Philomath, OR
This will be a membership meeting at Consumer’s Power at 7 pm on Tuesday May 5th to receive member inputs about the dissolution as an Oregon non-profit Guild and more importantly to discuss how to proceed with a transition to a “GROUP”. Board members will be present to answer questions you may have, but they may not have all the answers at this meeting. The focus will be how to keep us woodworkers communicating, sharing ideas and knowledge among our community.
If you want to weigh in on the transition but will be unable to attend the 5/5 meeting at Consumer’s Power please use the groups.io forum to express your ideas. Please title your email “Ideas For the Transition” to make the thread easier to follow.

A special raffle will be held that night. Each paid member will be given a free ticket for the drawing of 10 gift certificates worth $50 ea.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.
MWWG BOARD

MWWG - GROUP MEETING
2026-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Consumer Power Bld, 6990 West Hills Road, Philomath, OR
Concepts Behind “Pre-Industrial” (Traditional) Woodworking!

The past decade has seen a renewed interest in “Pre-Industrial” or Traditional woodworking. This usually focuses on hand tools and often sidelines machine work and newer woodworking methods. But what did woodworking before the machine age look like? How did woodworkers think of their craft, their customers, and the things they made? How did they structure their work to make both simple and complex pieces?

Join us at the MWWG July meeting where Luke Clawson will dive into some of the concepts that informed how woodworkers of the past thought about themselves and their jobs!

SEE YOU THERE!!!! 🙂

MWWG - FOOTWISE SHOW
2026-08-31 - 2026-09-30 | FOOTWISE, 301 SW Madison Ave, CORVALLIS, OR, 97330, United States
SETUP WILL BE ON AUG. 31 AND TAKEDOWN IS SEPT 30
