Port Townsend
Woodworkers Show
Thank you to all the exhibitors and visitors to the show!!
We (the Splintergroup) felt like it was one of the best shows (2022) we've ever had. The diversity and quality of the work was stunning.
There was a wonderful group of young women woodworkers - furniture makers, woodturners and spoon carvers.
We relished reconnecting with old friends, former students and enthusiasts.
We look forward to seeing everyone next year!
A big thank you to our Sponsors!
And a huge thank you to our gracious hosts at the Legion Hall!
Check the 2022 Exhibitors page to
see images of the booths
Celebrating Local Wood - The 2022 Woodworkers Show
For the 2022 Port Townsend Woodworkers show we turn the spotlight onto Local Wood.
As furniture makers, turners and as the customers of makers we have become accustomed to seeing pieces made of wood imported from elsewhere, whether that is Cherry from Pennsylvania or Sapele from South America. We'd like to encourage everyone, much like the Local Food movement, to consider buying and making pieces made from locally sourced wood and made by local craftspeople.
At the 2022 show you'll see a variety furniture, bowls, spoons and other wooden ware on display that have been made from the lumber of two very special local trees.
Last year (2021) Jefferson Land Trust conducted it's first timber harvest at Valley View Forest in Chimacum. The harvest was carefully planned to start the transition from forest that had been clear cut then grown back untended to a forest that is both a more natural and more diverse habitat. The Splinter Group is the grateful recipient of two trees from the harvest process
In December 2021 we had a Big Leaf Western Maple and a Red Alder dropped by a professional faller. The logs from these trees have been milled into boards. Some of those boards were in a dehumidification kiln, drying gently and were made available to makers in the summer. The rest of the boards will be air dried and available for the 2023 and 2024 shows.
Some of the limbs and other pieces from those trees, that would go to waste in a commercial felling operation, were given to local carvers, the Strait Turners Woodturning Club and the Seattle Spoon Club.