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North Shore Woodturners Guild

Main Contact
Name	Ron Thomas
Phone	+64 9 426 7782
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President
Club Website
	www.wood.org.nz
Clubrooms
	Guild Hall, Agincourt Reserve, Agincourt Road, Glenfield
Meetings	Guild Weekly Meetings: 7pm Tuesdays of the School Term at the clubrooms. See website for programme details

Late in 1984 a small group of wood lathe owners met together in a private house and, with two objectives in mind decided to form a guild. Those two objectives were to firstly further the craft of woodturning and secondly to help one another.

The first newsletter was published in December of 1984 and contained a list of 40 names.

The first official meeting was held at Rangitoto College on Tuesday 26th February, 1985.

On September 16th of that year a Special General Meeting was called to consider an application to become an Incorporated Society. This proposal was endorsed and carried out.

So, the question of "Who we are?" although answered in part by the above information which states "What we were", more important is "What are we now?"

The broadbrush description above still holds true. We are a group of woodturners who meet every Tuesday night of the school year to discuss, practise, learn, encourage, observe and help each other with the craft of Woodturning. Our members cover the normal range of individuals involved in a craft. From professionals who earn their living woodturning, enthusiastic amateurs who turn wood for fun and relaxation, very experienced woodturners who delight in the complexities of a particular project and making their own tools to assist, woodturners who for a variety of reasons have decided to stand back from their lathes but still come to the meetings and still contribute their knowledge through to woodturners who are students in every sense of the word.