Port Townsend
Woodworkers Show
Announcing the 2025 Woodworkers Show
The 2025 Port Townsend Woodworkers Show marks the 20th anniversary of the current version of the Show. Jim Tolpin and John Marckworth ran a couple of Woodworkers Shows in the late 1990's at Point Hudson.
We're planning to use this year's show to highlight the development and expansion of non-marine woodworking in Jefferson County:
Jim, John and Tim Lawson founded the Port Townsend School of Woodworking in 2008. The School has continued to grow and now offers course throughout the year. The graduates of 12-week intensive programs, staff and instructors at the School have grown the number of local woodworkers.
Port Townsend has a strong community of luthiers, instrument and bow makers supporting the musical community here. There are a cabinetmakers, furniture makers, carvers, woodturners and many makers of other wooden goods.
We're fortunate to have the best lumberyard in the Pacific NW right here in Port Townsend. Edensaw Woods' long standing commitment to supplying the highest quality to both the marine and non-marine woodworkers has strengthened many local and statewide businesses.
The emerging Jefferson Timber Cooperative - a group of forest owners and wood processors who are seeking to create a long-term, sustainable, and profitable collection of businesses capable of transforming locally-grown logs into high-value wood products ranging from building packages to custom furniture.
The Splinter Group is seeking entries for the annual Woodworkers Show to be held November 1-2, 2025, at the American Legion Hall in Port Townsend.
Submissions are sought from furniture makers, cabinetmakers, instrument makers, turners, carvers, artists and other woodworkers in Port Townsend and adjacent areas. Your work should be well-crafted and of your own design. The show is juried for the quality of your work.
Entries for the Show will open on June 1st 2025.
In Memoriam: John Marckworth
October 21, 1948 – March 10, 2024
October 21, 1948 – March 10, 2024
We are dedicating this year's show to John Marckworth who passed away in March this year. John, a talented and creative woodworker, founded the PT Woodworkers Show in the late 1980's with Jim Tolpin and then revived it as a founding member of the Splintergroup in 2006.
John spent much of his time teaching, mentoring, encouraging and promoting new and established woodworkers in the community and founded the Port Townsend School of Woodworking with Tim Lawson and Jim Tolpin.
We will deeply miss his kindness, generous spirit, big smile, great sense of humor and willingness to do the tasks no one else would volunteer for.
We will have a piece or two of his on display at this year's show.