The topic is the installation of and demonstration using the large machine for surfacing and thicknessing huge live edge slabs at Black Forest Wood Products.

The October meeting topic “The Ins and Outs of Sharpening” was presented by James Reid from Lee Valley.

SAWS Fine Works in Wood 2025 Exhibition Roundup

September 2025 monthly meeting video at the Exhibition

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The Exhibition Dozen: Key things about the SAWS 2025 big show

Putting on the Exhibition requires the same elements as a woodworking project: vision, planning, well organized execution and a passion to present the best. Learn how we are approaching it this year.

2025 Shop Tour videos

SAWS member Dave Ross gave a talk and demonstration on all there is to know about sanding for the home workshop.

A discussion of the various aspects of vacuum bagging veneers to a solid substrate.

Meet Bill Maniotakis, a craftsman who is celebrated inside and outside the Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society (SAWS) organization. Take a look behind the scenes of one of SAWS most productive, versatile and engaged makers!

As an organization, SAWS has been quietly successful, undeniably resilient over more than four decades.

Exhibition Standards and Boat Building

If you listen carefully in Tom Gorman’s small basement workshop, you can hear the echoes of a distant generation of craftspeople.

What does the Standards Committee look for?

Show and Tell

For more than 40 years The Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society (SAWS) Fine Works in Wood Exhibition has been celebrating the best of skills in our woodworking community in Alberta and across Canada.

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December Meeting Video - Tam Godfrey

November Meeting Video - Mel the Sign Man