News Articles

Trees for Climate Change

In case you missed it, the Boston Sunday Globe printed an excellent article in the Address Section on trees that are heat tolerant, and will be successful in the Climate change environment. The suggestion below are offered by John DelRosso, head arborist at the Harvard Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Ma.

Here are the results from the League’s  “Arts, Crafts and Design” Exhibition for the two Guild Sponsored awards plus a third award to one of our long-time members and past leader of our Luthiers subgroup.  

Best in Wood Furniture- Peter Maynard
A beautiful hall table. 

GSWT members have been invited to join the Seacoast Woodturners Club on Thursday, April 16 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm for a remote demonstration by Mike Mahoney. Mike is famous for his simple but quickly turned utility bowls.

Hand Tools & Carving thinks there has never been a better time to learn a new gluing skill with Hide Glue Virtuoso Patrick Edwards.

The PFG subgroup is looking into doing virtual GoToMeeting learning presentations for our subgroup members. It is unfortunate for some and an opportunity for others that this has to be done. There are some real advantages to doing this. However the content of our sessions is very much about the "details" of a process and some of this content will be lost in the internet bandwidth.

March 7, 2020 Meeting

The Boatbuilding Subgroup was once again drawn to the Maine woods to the shop of Bill Thomas Woodworking. Bill is an accomplished designer and builder of boats plus a fine teacher. He started with showing us how select and interpret boat plans.