Midwest Woodworkers Association

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” Emile Zola

announcements

Next Meeting

Join us for our upcoming monthly meeting on 28th October at Sawdust Studios. Program to be announced.

Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival Fundraiser

The Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival will be held on October 12th and 13th. If you’ve never been, this is a wonderful community event. If you have, we know we’ll see you there. It is always a lot of fun helping all those children put together their toy cars. Each year we hear several tell us that they have their prior year cars on a shelf in their rooms and can’t wait to add to the collection. While this is a fundraiser, the best payment is all those smiles from all those happy faces. See you there. Contact the club if you can spend a few hours helping in the booth.

Holiday Toy Drive

Our members cut and shape toy car bodies in a variety of styles of their own design or from example drawings available on the club’s website. The club provides wooden wheels and axel pegs and members gather prior to Christmas to assemble the cars. Toy cars are given to a number of local and international agencies that serve deserving children. Hundreds of toys are donated each year. “Anything looks like a car if you put wheels on it”

What We Do

Regular club meetings, featuring a demonstration, show-n-tell, attendance raffles and shop talk are held on the fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 pm.

Sawdust Studios

3150 Paris Road

Columbia MO 

Live Demonstrations

At our monthly meetings, we see live sessions on particular techniques and projects, delivered by an experienced member. On occasion we invite a nationally known woodworker to provide the demos.

Show-N-Tell

Members are encouraged to bring their latest projects to the monthly meetings and describe what they’ve been working on. Sometimes this is to get help from the group on a problem; many times it provides inspiration and oohs and aahs.

Hands-On Workshops

Scheduled throughout the year include hands-on workshops held at various locations, usually the workshop of a club member.

Shop Talk

Our in-person meetings always include helpful discussion from all experience levels. This could include topics like joinery, tools and techniques, fuming, bending, safety, shop operations and various projects.