The video of OWA's January 2024 meeting is now online, posted on the 23rd. It features a presentation by Charles Anderson, Joint VP and Program Director. Its title is Big Project, Small Shop. In it, Charles describes how his CNC controlled router aided in the construction of 160 whiskey sampler boxes. The video from the meeting in December 2023 has been on line for a few weeks now. It was split into two parts: Part 1 contained Show-and-Tell segments from members of the OWA while Part 2 was an invited presentation of the products and services available from Clarence Creek Wood Select, a hardwood supplier a little East of Ottawa. Clicky links? Sure. Here's one for January's meeting (Big Project, Small Shop) , another for Part 1 of December's meeting (member Show-and-Tell) and a third for Part 2 of December's meeting (Clarence Creek Wood Select) .
In addition to in-person payment using cash or a cheque, or by using PayPal, memberships may now be paid using an ordinary bank e-transfer. Click through to the Dues page for details.
When we announced a hiatus in our meetings last year at about this time, the Ottawa Tool Library (OTL) reached out to us with a proposal that we somehow partner to keep the OWA going. Thanks to the OTL we were able to meet in person on a masked small scale, and thus keep our activities going. For that, the OWA cannot express enough gratitude for the boost that the OTL provided. The OWA members who still hang on, the clingers, strive to resurrect the OWA. A step in that direction has been to secure a meeting place large enough to house a re-built membership. Namely, Lee Valley has offered us their seminar room, the place where they hold workshops, tutorials, and the like. Time slots are limited; the only one available was Satruday afternoons from 2 to 4 PM. Don created a monthly schedule of meetings for the first Saturdays of each month. The only exception is the very first meeting coming up on October's second Satuday, the 14th, to skip ...
Woodworking auction now in progress - http://exf.ac/f1q - Free loading of equipment, too.
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