Tidewater Woodworkers Guild

05/27/2026

Members brought in many different jigs they built to help their lives easier in their workshops. It is always wonderful to see what people come up.This is one of the many assets of being a member of the Tidewater Woodworkers Guild. Our dues we pay yearly pays for itself in so many ways.

04/12/2026

Bench Talk, Monday, April 13th, 6:30 pm, Norfolk Woodcraft

We will have a guest making a short presentation this Monday at our meeting.

Mike Baldwin — Norfolk local, hobbyist woodworker, and software engineer.

He has developed a desktop app that allows users to design furniture and cabinetry projects in 3D and automatically generate clean cut lists—fully offline, with no subscriptions.

He's looking for feedback from experienced builders and will be giving a short informal demo at the meeting. Complimentary lifetime licenses may be available for those who’d like to evaluate it and provide input.

I think that's it for now, see you Monday,

03/29/2026

Fellow member Jim Frances opened his shop recently to show fellow members of the Tidewater Woodworker's Guild where he practices his craft.

03/29/2026

Member Sean Kery and Juan Perez recently volunteered their time to build a platform for Sarge the Bobcat at Virginia Livving Museum in Newport News. These guys are awesome! I wonder if the got to play with Sarge while there? Many thanks to these men for volunteering their time to build this wonderful platform for Sarge.

03/02/2026

WOW what a cool presentation Austin Looney provided the woodworkers of Tidewater on milk paints! Great job sir!

02/13/2026

The next meeting of the Tidewater Woodworkers Guild is February 23, 2026 at 6:30PM. All meetings are held at Woodcraft Norfolk-Virginia Beach, 5802 E Virginia Beach Blvd Suite #152, Norfolk, VA 23502. We have an excellent speaker coning in to talk with us about how mil paints are made. It is promised to be a very interesting meeting. We hope to see you there!

02/06/2026

02/06/2026

Members helped the Cub Scouts again last night with their Pinewood Derby cars. What a wonderful time all had. Personally speaking from experience I think the members have more fun helping these Scouts than the Scouts. What do you think?

02/02/2026

The Tidewater Woodworkers Guild held their January meeting at Woodcraft in the Janaf Shopping Center on January 26, 2026. A huge thanks to all who came out and participated in upholding our tradition of focusing on workshop safety. Many thanks goes to our new Vice President and Program Chair, Eric Stockinger. We were honored to have Dr. Lexie Shaw, MD FACS trauma surgeon for the Level 1 Trauma Center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Dr Shaw gave a wonderful talk about shop safety. While we always strive to reinforce safe woodworking practices, accidents still happen every year, even to the most experienced crafter. Dr. Shaw provides insight into commonly seen shop injuries, when to identify the types of injuries to seek immediate help for, and provides stark awareness that some injuries are best handled at facilities with higher preparedness, known as Level 1 Trauma Centers.