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The Great Lakes Chapter will hold their Spring meeting on April 13, 2024 at Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, MI.

Great Lakes Chapter Meeting, April 13, 2024 Meeting Agenda Great Lakes Chapter meeting has been set for a single day, Saturday, April 13, 2024 at the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, Michigan. This SAPFM meeting is open to all SAPFM dues paying members and their guests. There...

The Great Lakes Chapter will be holding their Spring 2024 meeting on April 13th at Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, MI.

The Fall Great Lakes Chapter meeting has been set for a single day, Saturday, October 28, 2023 at the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, Michigan. This SAPFM meeting is open to all SAPFM dues paying members and their guests. There will be a request of $45 per person to cover Mary...

Yesterday, we held the Spring meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter of SAPFM. In my opinion, we had a successful meeting. My thanks go out to all who attended, especially Dale Ausherman, Rich Herbert, Doug Moulder, David Boeff and Andrew Messimer for their presentations. I would also like to...

The Great Lakes chapter will hold its Spring meeting on April 22, 2023. It will be held at the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, MI. If there are any topics of interest that members would like to see a presentation about or a presenter from outside the chapter that you would like...

The Great Lakes chapter held its Fall meeting on November 12th, 2023. We had a great meeting with a turnout of about 30 people including a number of students from Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute. At the meeting, we discussed topics for future meeting and how those present would like the...

The Great Lakes Chapter Fall meeting has been set for a single day, Saturday, November 12, 2022 at the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute in Adrian, Michigan. This SAPFM meeting is open to all SAPFM dues paying members and their guests. There will be a request of $15 per person to cover...

This upcoming Saturday, July 18th, the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association is having their annual summer meeting and tool swap at Tillers in Kalamazoo, Mi.  This year, Fine Tool Journal will be holding an auction in the afternoon featuring approximately 400 lots of tools, toolboxes and...

As discussed at the last Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley chapters of SAPFM, Eric Matson of the Rio Grande furniture program has arranged a Windsor chair class to be taught by Peter Galbert.  Peter is a well known chairmaker, educator and author of "The Chairmaker's Notebook" published by Lost...

For a number of years, I have hosted a tool meet at Tillers International in Kalamazoo, Mi.  This is held in conjunction with Mid-West Tool Collector's Association.  The meet will take place on July 12.  It is basically a swap meet focused mainly on woodworking hand tools.  Usually there are...

I've been wondering if there are any plans in the works for a Fall Meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter?  If there is anything I can do to help out, let me know. Jim

All Interested, As announced at the Fall ORV meeting, there will be a 2 day spokeshave and travisher making extravaganza at Dude's(Brian Neely) shop near Lancaster on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14, 2010.  There is a $25.00 material fee.  I will need a firm commitment from all...

Hi Guys, I received the monthly flyer from Canton Woodcraft yesterday and saw an ad for an offsite class that Woodcraft is having at the Henry Ford Museum on November 22.  Mark Gervasi, the furniture conservator at the Henry Ford will be giving a presentation about furniture conservation in the...

WINTERTHUR EXHIBITION AT THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, AUGUST 23, 2008 Plans for the tour of the Winterthur Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art have been finalized.  We will meet on the lower level of the Museum in the Herrick Lobby at 10 AM.  From there we will begin the tour.  We will split...

WINTERTHUR EXHIBITION AT THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART AUGUST 23, 2008 Plans for the tour of the Winterthur Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art have been finalized.  We will meet on the lower level of the Museum in the Herrick Lobby at 10 AM.  From there we will begin the tour.  We will split...

WINTERTHUR EXHIBITION AT THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, AUGUST 23, 2008 Plans for the tour of the Winterthur Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art have been finalized.  We will meet on the lower level of the Museum in the Herrick Lobby at 10 AM.  From there we will begin the tour.  We will split...

The subject of a SAPFM group tour of the "Collecting At Winterthur" exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art has been discussed at both the Ohio River Valley Chapter and the Great Lakes Chapter meetings and it was felt that this would be a good opportunity for a joint meeting between those...