Woodturners of St. Louis

05/31/2026

Check out our newest video of Moe Milstead turning a clock. Moe goes through all of the steps and shows how to turn the base and chassis for the clock.

Join the Woodturners of St Louis and watch the presentations from great woodturners. Our meeting is the 4th Tuesday of every month, meeting starts at 6:30pm. We meet at the St. Louis Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Program center, located at 8300 Valcour Ave, St Louis.

We welcome new turners and anyone interested in turning. We also have a turning day for new and intermediate turners to come and join us and learn new or brush up on different techniques. This is held the 2nd Tuesday of the month, same location as our meetings.

Always check our schedule at our webpage: https://www.wtstl.com

05/02/2026

Want to see a Gnome turned from start to finish? Ray Hinkle does a great job of demonstrating the process. He demonstrated this for the St Louis Woodturners on April 28. Come join the St Louis Woodturners at our meeting to see demonstrators create real works of art!! We meet at the Carpenters Joint Apprentice Program at 8300 Valcour Ave St Louis MO on the 4th Tuesday of each month with pre-meeting starting at 5:30pm and meeting at 6:30pm.

01/09/2026

Did you ever wonder where Gnomes came from???? Ray Hinkle show you how they came into existence. Watch him turn a gnome on the lathe in under an hour. He describes the different ways to dress them and add accessories to show off their distinct characteristics. Great job!! Ray did this at the Show Me Woodturners in Festus Missouri.

01/07/2026

Membership cost and link to join can be found on our website at: https://wtstl.com/about-us/join-us/
Here is that information:

Individual membership ($35 per year)
Family membership (up to 3 individuals in same household) ($45 per year)

New Member – First time joining WTSTL:
Between – January 1 thru July 31 ($ 35 individual; $45 family)
Between – August 1 thru September 30 ( $17.50 individual; $22.50 family)
Between – October 1 thru December 31 ($35 individual; $45 family) ; credited to dues for the following year and member in good standing for the remainder of the current year.

Join Us Join the Woodturners of St. Louis Chapter dues are based on the calendar year and are due every January.  Individual and Family plans are available.  We use Zoom streaming platform to make our live meetings available to anyone, anywhere. Pay your dues by cash or check at our meeting, by ch...

12/09/2025

Great video with a lot of good information on how to take a log and turn it into a natural edge bowl. Keith Baizer does a great job explaining and demonstrating the creation of the bowl.

Keith goes into taking a log, cutting it up, deciding on the part you are going to use for your bowl and then show turning the bowl. He has a world of infor...

11/25/2025

I have finished 70 more pens for the Pens for the Troops sponsored by Woodcraft of St. Louis. I am currently at 258 pens this year. These are all SlimLine pens that are donated by Woodcraft of St. Louis so all I have to furnish is provide and cut the wood into pen blanks (I try and use found wood, meaning either free/donated/small cost for multiple pen blanks), sanding paper, finish and some time. It is a good cause and shows that we all support our Armed Forces and their support of us and our freedom.
I am not done for the year, still have a few more to turn, have a goal of 300 this year. I challenge all of the Pen turners our there to make a few.
Lets overload Woodcraft with a TON of Pens!!

11/21/2025

Want to know how to cut Green Wood to get a good bowl? Keith Baizer demonstrates how the log should be cut up and then takes some of those pieces and turns an Off Center Bowl. This is a great presentation for new folks and experienced turners to watch and learn.

Keith does a fantastic job of explaining how to cut wood from logs and use it to turn bowls and platters. He then demonstrates how to take pieces of those l...

09/05/2025

Great video on turning Segmented Feature Ring presented by Steve Nagy. He demonstrates the process and explains the process of adding a Featured Ring to your Segmented Vessel.

Check out this video and all of the clubs videos at : https://www.youtube.com/

Join us at one of our meetings, we meet the 4th Tuesday of the month at the Carpenters Apprenticeship Training Facility, 8300 Valcour Ave; Affton, MO at 6:30pm.

Check web site, WTSTL.com for latest schedule and programs

https://youtu.be/3LsHJlty9j4

Great video on turning Segmented Feature Ring presented by Steve Nagy. He demonstrates the process and explains the process of adding a Featured Ring to you...

07/20/2025

Ever wonder what you should do to enhance your turning project? Got a piece of wood with a crack or hole and and not sure what to do? John Ferreria demonstrates different techniques on how to enhance your woodturning or woodworking projects with the use of fillers, colors using dyes and flakes. Make your projects have pizazz!!

Presentation by John Ferreria. Ever wonder about how to salvage a p***y piece of wood or how to deal with a crack in a turned bow before finishing? John co...

07/17/2025

Finished drilling