Woodturning Gatherings?

[Steve Mathews]

I recently came across mention of the Utah Woodturning Symposium and wondered about other such gatherings. Are there any other events like this across the country? Any favorites?

[Russell Stanton]

Look up regional woodturning symposiums on the AAW website. The National AAW symposium is in Kansas City in late June.

[John King]

SWAT, Waco, Tx, August 25-27, 2017. Great regional gathering. Lots of vendors. Superior demonstrations by national and regional woodturners. Check it out at https://www.swaturners.org/. - John

[Steve Mathews]

I take it the AAW National Symposium is the largest gathering. It seems some of these groups are not part of the AAW.

[Reed Gray]

There is an Arizona Woodturning event in spring next year. It runs every other year. We have ours up here in Oregon on the alternate years. Ours is next weekend.

robo hippy

[Alan Trout]

The national symposium is always fun. I go every year. The best value symposium IMHO is SWAT. Roughly 1K tuners present very reasonable price and a lot of fun. Utah is a great event. One of the best demonstrator lineups going and lots of fun. As a demonstrator its hard to beat Utah. Plenty of places to have fun all around the country.

Alan

[Steve Nix]

Ditto for the SWAT. Great event held in Waco, tx.