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The Trail to the SAWS 2025 Exhibition
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.
April 2025 Meeting Video
SAWS member Dave Ross gave a talk and demonstration on all there is to know about sanding as it pertains to the home workshop.
March 2025 Meeting Video
A discussion of the various aspects of vacuum bagging veneers to a solid substrate.
Maker Man: Bill Maniotakis
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!
Proudly Canadian: SAWS can celebrate its home-grown success
As an organization, SAWS has been quietly successful, undeniably resilient over more than four decades.
Building skill: Thoughts from a woodworking master
If you listen carefully in Tom Gorman’s small basement workshop, you can hear the echoes of a distant generation of craftspeople.
Tips to successfully enter the 2025 Exhibition
What does the Standards Committee look for?
Exhibition year: Why it’s a great time to join SAWS
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.
September 2024 Meeting Video
September Meeting Video - A presentation by SAWS members, Maria Teleptean and Raul Nemes, on their woodworking business, Remnant Woodworks.
