Graydon O'Blenes 4/24/25 Graydon O'Blenes 4/24/25

March 2025 Meeting Video

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

Terry Hockaday 4/23/25 Terry Hockaday 4/23/25

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!

Terry Hockaday 3/30/25 Terry Hockaday 3/30/25

Proudly Canadian: SAWS can celebrate its home-grown success

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

Graydon O'Blenes 3/16/25 Graydon O'Blenes 3/16/25

February 2025 Meeting Video

Exhibition Standards and Boat Building

Terry Hockaday 3/4/25 Terry Hockaday 3/4/25

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.

Herm Stolte 2/22/25 Herm Stolte 2/22/25

Tips to successfully enter the 2025 Exhibition

What does the Standards Committee look for?

Graydon O'Blenes 2/3/25 Graydon O'Blenes 2/3/25

January 2025 Meeting Video

Show and Tell

Darrell Aunger 1/26/25 Darrell Aunger 1/26/25

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.