• Woodcraft Guild ACT Inc.

    If you are interested in woodcraft, the Guild is for you.
    Activities include:
    TURNING
    FURNITURE MAKING
    TOOL APPRECIATION
    TOY MAKING
    CARVING
    SCROLL SAW
    PYROGRAPHY

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  • Featured workshop
    Members Champ R Barfoed
    Members Champ R Barfoed

    The Guild holds an Annual Exhibition so that members can show their work to colleagues and the public. By subnitting their work to critical evaluation by professional judges, members are able to improve the disign, construction methods and finish of craftwork.

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  • Get in Touch

    The Woodcraft Guild ACT
    PO Box 1411
    Woden ACT 2606

Make chips fly
Toys are the Guild
Boxing anyone?
Make or restore a tool
Pyromania is encouraged
Fun with Marquetry
Carve your fantasies
Make your own furniture

Welcome to the Woodcraft Guild's Website!

Our site aims to provide up-to-date information on Guild activities, in conjunction with quality visual impressions of what we do, and how we go about it.  We hope you enjoy the site and can obtain the information you want about the Guild.   If you cannot find what you want on the site, contact us via the Contact Us  page and we will try to provide the information you require. 
The object of the Guild is to promote, foster and develop woodcraft and encourage excellence in woodcraft and related design in the Australian Capital Territory and region.

REMINDER: MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME IS DRAWING CLOSE!

New Membership Year commences 1 July    Get in early to be in the draw for the $100 gift certificate

 

 Click here to access on-line renewal form
 
Find out more about the Guild here.
Monthly Guild meetings are normally held at "The Shed" from 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm, on the final Wednesday of the month.  Our Shed is located on the Kambah Pool Road, Kambah, and features plenty of quality equipment for members to use, either as accredited operators, or under skilled supervision.

Our next Monthly Meeting will be on Wednesday, 29 May 2013, and the speaker will be member Jessica Bazley-Smith, who will describe her year studying for the Certificate IV Furniture Design & Technology and Fine Furniture Making at Sturt School for Wood, Mittagong.

Routine weekly activities at the Shed include:
Working Bee & member project days are Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10.00 am until about 4pm.  Do your own project, or help out with Guild projects - there is always something to do!
Project Night is Wednesday from  7:00 pm until 9:30 pm (except meeting night).  Come along and do your own thing, or receive or provide a helping hand.  Contact the Shed Boss before the night, to ensure that a coordinator is available.
We have a number of  "Special Interest Groups"   (SIGs) that concentrate on specific areas of woodcraft such as woodturning, furniture, toy making, marquetry (& intarsia), pyrography, tool-making & restoration.

An important message on Fire Safety:

The Shed will be Closed if the Fire Danger Rating is EXTREME.

The closure is a requirement of our lease with Lions Youth Haven Farm and is based on the fire danger rating given by The Emergency Services Agency. A fire danger rating of SEVERE does not invoke closure of the Shed.
On days of high fire danger please check this rating before going to the Shed, by going to the ESA website:  http://esa.act.gov.au/  (just click on this link) and you will see the Fire Danger Rating on the front page, right hand side.  (Please note that this rating is separate from any declaration of a Total Fire Ban, which of itself is not enough to bring about closure of the Shed.)
Read all the latest news in our informative  monthly newsletter  "Shed Notes".