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Endless Mountain Turners, Troy PA
All day demo - Skew Fundamentals, Asthetics of Bowls, Lidded Boxes Tips and Tricks, Fundamentals of Piercing, 4/6/13
Dakota Woodturners Symposium, Bismarck ND
Demonstrations and hands on classes on ornaments, pens, and lidded boxes, 4/12/13 through 4/14/13
Capital Area Woodturners, Fairfax Station, VA
All day hands-on sessions, Advanced Pens, Ornaments, and Advanced Ornaments, 4/24/13 through 4/26/13
First State Woodturners, New Castle DE
Lidded Boxes - Tips and Tricks - 2 hr club demonstration, 4/3/13
Turn-On Chicago Symposium, Chicago IL
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 8/4/12, 8/3/12
Twenty Steps to Better Pens, 90 minute demonstration, 8/4/12, 8/3/12
Sharpening Made Easy, 90 minute demonstration, 8/5/12
Improving Your Photographs, 90 minute demonstration, 8/4/12
Utah Woodturning Symposium,
Provo UT
What's Your Signature?, 90 minute demonstration, 5/17/12
Turned By Design, 90 minute demonstration, 5/19/12
Improving Your Photographs, 90 minute demonstration, 5/19/11
Twenty Steps to Better Pens, 90 minute demonstration, 5/17/12, 5/18/12, 5/19/11
Sharpening Made Easy, 90 minute demonstration, 5/8/10
Finding Your Own Style, 90 minute presentation, 5/20/11, 5/7/10
Extreme Pens, 90 minute presentation, 5/6/10, 5/7/10
Tips, Tricks, and Hacks in Penmaking, 90 minute demonstration, 5/14/09 & 5/15/09
After Turning Decoration Techniques, 90 minute demonstration, 5/21/11, 5/14/09 & 5/15/09
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 5/22/08,
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 5/22/08 & 5/23/08
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 6/16/06
Craft Supplies USA - Super Wednesday Demonstration Day,
Provo UT
Pen Turning Shop Tips, 120 minute demonstration, 5/16/12
Pen Making Questions & Answers, 5/18/11
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 5/5/10, 5/13/09, 5/21/08, 6/20/07, 6/14/06
Making pens w/o kits and adapting pen kits, Hand-cut spiral techniques, Two - 75 minute demonstrations, 6/15/05
Using Alternate Materials, Finishing Techniques, Two - 75 minute demonstrations, 6/9/04
Totally Turning Symposium, Saratoga
Springs NY
Photographing your work - 3/24/13
Piercing, Painting, and Pyrography - 3/31/12
Unique Presentation - 4/1/12
Ornaments - Thought to hanging - 3/26/11
Penmaking Tips and Tricks - 3/23/13, 3/26/11
Sharpening Made Easy - 3/24/13, 3/23/13, 3/27/11, 3/28/10, 3/27/10, 3/29/09, 3/28/09
Extreme Pens - 3/28/10, 3/27/10
Workmounting Techniques - 3/29/09, 3/28/09
Florida Woodturning Symposium, Lake Yale, FL
All day hands on pen turning classes, 2/3/12
Mid-Hudson Woodworkers & Kaatskill Woodturners Guild, Mid-Hudson Valley, NY
Workholding, Mastering the Skew, & Sharpening Made Easy Demonstrations & hands-on classes, 9/15/12 & 9/16/12
Kawartha Woodturners,
Peterborough Canada
Workholding Tips and Tricks - 2 hour club demo - 3/6/12
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated - All day demo - 11/12/11
Artistic Wood and Tool Supply -
Toronto Canada
Ornaments - all day hands-on class - 3/7/12, 11/9/11
Penmaking Fundamentals - all day hands-on class - 3/4/12, 11/10/11
Advanced Penmaking - all day hands-on class - 3/3/12, 11/11/11
Bowl Turning Fundamentals - all day hands-on class - 3/9/12, 3/5/12, 11/14/11
Woodturning Skills Enhancement - all day hands-on class - 3/8/12, 3/6/12, 11/15/11
Toronto Woodturners Guild, Toronto Canada
Workholding Tips and Tricks - 2 hour club demo, 3/5/12
Sharpening Made Easy/Ornaments/Advanced Pen Making - All day demo - 11/13/11
Rochester Woodworkers Society, Rochester NY
Demystifying Sharpening and Tool Making, evening lecture, 2/24/12
Making Woodworking/Woodturning Tools, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/26/11
Fundamentals of Bowl Turning, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/11/10
Fundamentals of Spindle Turning, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/20/08
Basic Woodturning for Furniture Makers, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 3/26/05
Basic Penturning, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/9/02
Arrowmont School of
Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
Penmaking - A Master's Class, hands-on advanced penmaking class, 10/25/12-10/28/12
Turning Ornaments and After Turning Decoration - hands-on ornament class, 10/14/12-10/20/12
Total Immersion in Pens - hands-on advanced penmaking class, 11/3/11-11/6/11
Extreme Pens - Week long, hands-on advanced penmaking class, 8/15/10-8/21/10
Buffalo State University, Buffalo NY
Turning Fundamentals and Design for Furniture Makers - all day demos and hands on classes, 9/27/11, 9/26/11, 11/4/10, 11/3/10, 4/21/09
Lee Valley Store,
Burlington Canada
Enhanced Bowl Turning - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 6/4/11, 4/9/11
Fundamentals of Penturning - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 5/27/11, 5/26/11
Advanced Penmaking - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 5/28/11, 1/8/11
Turning Christmas Ornaments - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 10/16/10
Woodturning Tips and Tricks - hands on class, 7/31/10
Making Woodturning Tools - hands on class, 6/18/11, 6/26/10
Turning Peppermills - hands on class, 6/2/10
Turning Lidded Boxes - hands on class, 3/5/11, 6/5/10
Bowl Turning Fundamentals - hands on class, 6/17/11, 6/3/11, 6/2/11, 4/8/11, 4/7/11/ 4/6/11, 9/18/10, 4/23/10, 4/22/10
Workmounting Techniques - hands on class, 2/4/11, 2/3/11, 6/25/10, 6/24/10, 4/24/10, 2/20/10
Mastering the Skew Chisel - hands on class - 2/5/11, 4/16/10, 1/29/10, 1/28/10
Greenwood Bowl Turning - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 6/13/09
Sharpening Woodturning Tools - demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/15/10, 6/12/09
Woodturning Fundamentals - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 6/17/11, 6/16/11, 3/4/11, 3/3/11, 1/7/11, 1/6/11, 10/15/10, 10/14/10, 9/17/10, 9/16/10, 7/30/10, 7/29/10, 6/3/10, 6/4/10, 4/17/10,
2/19/10, 2/18/10, 1/30/10, 7/25/09, 5/30/09, 11/22/08
Ocean Reef Art League, Key Largo FL
Extreme Pens, All day hands on class, 1/22/11
Penturning, All day hands on class, 1/21/11
Bowls and Lidded Boxes, All day hands on class, 1/20/11
Fundamentals of Woodturning, All day hands on class, 1/19/11
2nd Segmented Woodturners Symposium,
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
Segmented Ornament and Segmented Pen Demonstrations, 11/11/10 - 11/14/10
Blue Ridge Woodturners,
Fincastle VA
Turning Custom Pen Components & Ornaments Tips and Tricks demonstrations, 11/10/10
Totally Turning Symposium,
Albany NY
Two rotations - 90 minutes each - Sharpening Made Easy, Workmounting Techniques, 10/13/07 & 10/14/07
Two rotations - 85 minutes each - Exotic Pens, Improving your Photographs, 10/14/06 & 10/15/06
Four rotations - 85 minutes each – 2 on Sharpening Woodturning Tools, 2 on Turning Exotic
Pens, 10/15/05 & 10/16/05
Ohio Valley Woodturners Guild Symposium - Turning 2009, West
Harrison IN
Sharpening Made Easy, 75 minute demonstration, 10/16/09
Making Your Pens Unique, 75 minute demonstration, 10/18/09
AAW Symposium 2012,
San Jose CA
Chair AAW Symposium - San Jose CA, 6/8-10/2012
AAW Symposium 2011,
St. Paul MN
AAW Symposium Trade Show operations, 6/23-26/2011
AAW Symposium 2010,
Hartford CT
AAW Symposium Trade Show operations, 6/17-20/2010
AAW Symposium 2008,
Richmond VA
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 6/20/08 & 6/21,08
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 6/20/08 & 6/22/08
Woodworkers Showcase, Saratoga
Springs NY
Two rotations - Tips and Tricks for the Woodturner, 4/5/08 & 4/6/08
Two rotations - Simple Woodturnings for the Woodworker, 4/5/08 & 4/6/08
Central Connecticut Woodturners,
Manchester CT
Penmaking Tips and Tricks, Making Your Pens Unique presentations - 5/26/09
Penturners Rendezvous, Provo UT
Tools for Penmaking, 30 minute demonstration, 5/5/10
DeMystifying the Skew Chisel, 45 minute demonstration, 5/13/09, 5/21/08
Sharpening Fundamentals for Turning Tools, 45 minute demonstration, 6/20/07, 6/15/05
Hand-cutting Spirals, 30 minute demonstration, 6/9/04
Woodturners Guild of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated - All day demo - 1/24/10
Turning Ornaments - all day hands on sessions - 1/25/10 & 1/26/10
Penmaking - Simple to Sophisticated - All day demo - 10/18/08
Penmaking Workshops - All day hands on workshops - 10/19/08 & 10/20/08
Sharpening Made Easy - 2 hour club demo, 9/20/07
Workholding Techniques - 2 hour club demo, 11/9/06
Atlantic Shore Woodturners,
Lakewood NJ
Sharpening Made Easy, Mastering the Skew, Workholding, and Making Your Pens Unique - All day demo, 6/12/10
Long Island Woodturners, Dix Hills NY
Sharpening Made Easy & Making Your Pens Unique - All day demo - 12/19/09
Bytown Woodturners, Ottawa Canada
Ornaments, Tips & Tricks, Improving Your Photography - All day demo - 10/16/11
Adirondack Woodturners Association, Albany NY
Advanced Pen Making - All day demo, 5/26/07
Turning Peppermills and Ornaments - all day demo, 11/4/06
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/5/05
DelVal Turners, Haddenfield NJ
Sharpening Made Easy; Workholding Techniques, Tips and Tricks; and Design Demos - all day workshop, 10/25/09
Central New York Woodturners,
Syracuse NY
Lidded boxes, Advanced Penmaking - All day demo, 9/19/09
Lidded boxes, Advanced Penmaking - All day hands-on workshop, 9/20/09
Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild,
Burlington Canada
Extreme Pens, 2 hour demo, 10/21/10
Style and Design - 2 hour demo, 4/16/09
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated, 2 hour demo, 3/20/08
Sharpening Made Easy, 2 hour demo, 2/15/07
Workholding Techniques, 2 hour demo, 9/21/06
New Jersery Woodturners, Roseland NJ
Workholding Techniques, Tips and Tricks Demo - 2 hour club demo, 10/26/09
Presque Isle Woodturners, Erie PA
Workholding Techniques/Skew Chisel Fundamentals - 3 hour club demo, 4/4/07
Sharpening Fundamentals, Shell Piercing Demo - All day demo, 8/5/07
Mid Hudson Woodworking Chapter, Kingston NY
After Turning Ornamentation Techniques - All day demo/hands on class, 4/26/08
Quad State Bodgers - Midland MD
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated - Hands on sessions and all day demo,
8/14/08, 8/15/08, & 8/16/08
Northeastern Woodworkers Association, Albany NY
Sharpening Everything in the Shop, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 9/24/11
Making Woodworking/Woodturning Tools, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/3/11, 4/2/11
Pen Turning and Enhancements, 4 day hands on class, 9/7/10-9/10/10
Furniture Enhancement Though Inlay, Piercing, Painting, and Pyrography, club demo, 1 hour club demo, 9/9/10
Woodturning Fundamentals for Woodworkers, 1 hour club demo, 4/21/05
Western NY Woodturners 1, Buffalo NY
Sharpening Made Easy, 1 hour club demo, 9/4/08
Piercing and carving on your woodturnings, 1 hour club demo, 2/2/06
Workmounting techniques, 1 hour club demo, 2/3/05
Using the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 10/7/04
Sharpening Fundamentals, 1 hour demo, 6/3/04
Lidded Boxes, 1 hour club demo, 6/5/03
Tools & Techniques for Piercing Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 9/6/01
Western NY Woodturners 2, Hamburg NY
Sharpening Fundamentals, 1 hour club demo, 3/13/08
Art and Science of Sanding Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 9/14/06
Sharpening and using the Ellsworth Bowl Gouge, 1 hour club demo, 6/8/06
Simple Techniques to Improve the Photographs of your Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 2/8/06
Using the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 5/12/05
Hand Chasing Threads, 1 hour club demo, 3/10/05
Making Lidded Boxes, 1 hour club demo, 10/10/02
Pembroke Woodturners Guild, Corfu NY
Mastering the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 10/11/11, 5/9/06
Lidded Boxes, Design & Execution, 2 hour club demo, 4/14/09
Sharpening for the Woodturner, 1 hour club demo, 4/8/08, 9/12/06
Advanced Pen Making , 1 hour club demo, 10/11/05
Turning Fundamentals, 1 hour club demo, 4/12/05
Improving the photographs of your turnings, 1 hour club demo, 11/9/04
Using the Bedan and Parting tool to their fullest, 1 hour club demo, 8/14/04
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/24/04
Making your own turning tools, 1 hour club demo, 4/12/04
Lockport Woodworkers, Lockport NY
Making Your Pens Unique/Penmaking Tips and Tricks, 3 hour club demo, 10/10/09
Woodcraft Store, West Seneca NY
Sharpening Everything in the Shop - all day hands on class, 5/30/10, 4/10/10, 12/6/09
Bowl Turning Fundamentals - all day hands on class, 2/20/11, 9/25/10, 5/29/10, 2/27/10, 9/27/09
Greenwood Bowl Turning/Mastering the Ellsworth Gouge - all day hands on class, 3/19/11, 1/28/11, 10/23/10, 2/28/10, 2/13/09, 6/6/09
Woodturning Demos - ongoing woodturning demos, 3/5/09
Woodturning Fundamentals - all day hands on class, 3/20/11, 6/27/10, 1/9/10, 12/12/09, 9/13/09, 4/19/09, 2/14/09
Advanced Penmaking - all day hands on class, 2/15/09
Woodturning Demos - Woodcraft Store Grand Opening - all day woodturning demos, 1/9/09
Fundamentals of Woodturning/Sharpening - all day hands on class, 1/19/09
Woodcraft Store, Rochester NY
Basic Spindle Turning (WC101), all day demo, lecture, & hands on class:
1/12/08, 12/8/07, 10/20/07, 3/11/07, 1/13/07, 12/9/06, 11/19/06, 4/22/06, 2/5/06, 11/26/05, 10/22/05, 5/7/05, 4/2/05,
1/23/05, 12/4/04, 10/2/04, 9/4/04, 7/31/04, 5/15/04, 3/27/04
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 10/29/06, 4/29/06, 11/27/05, 4/3/05,
10/9/04, 7/10/04, 3/14/04
Advanced Spindle Turning (WC201), all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 2/15/04
Turning Peppermills, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 5/8/04
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Tormek Demonstration, store demo on using the Tormek sharpening system, 2/13/10
Turning for Furniture Makers, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 3/7/09
Getting Started Woodturning, demo, lecture, and hands on class for new woodturners,
3/22/09, 1/10/09
Sharpening Workshop Tools A to Z, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/7/08, 11/2/08, 9/14/08, 3/9/08, 2/16/08, 12/15/07, 2/25/06
Mastering the Ellsworth Gouge - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/26/09, 10/25/08, 1/19/08
Fundamentals of Woodturning, all day demo, lecture, & hands on class: 2/7/09, 12/6/08, 9/13/08, 2/3/08, 1/6/08, 11/11/07, 6/2/07, 5/5/07, 4/7/07, 3/3/07, 9/17/06,
5/20/06, 4/1/06, 1/14/06
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/2/08, 1/5/08, 11/10/07, 5/19/07, 4/28/07, 10/8/06, 5/13/06, 12/10/05
Workholding Techniques for Woodturners - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/15/07
Sharpening Tools using the Tormek/Jet Sharpening System, 4 hour store demo,
8/25/07,
4/14/07, 3/17/07, 2/3/07, 11/11/06, 10/29/05, 6/11/05
Workholding Techniques for Woodturners, 4 hour store demo, 2/24/07
Turning Wooden Peppermills, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/18/06,
4/8/06
Turning Pens and Bottle Stoppers - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 10/22/06
Turning Pens and Bowls, 4 hour store demo, 6/9/07, 2/5/05
Pens and Ornaments, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/18/06
Turning hollow ornaments, 4 hour store demo, 11/30/05, 11/19/05, 11/6/04
Basic Penturning, 4 hour store demo, 1/7/06, 1/4/06, 10/16/04
Using the Wolverine Sharpening system, 4 hour store demo, 5/21/05
Rockler Freedom Pen Day, all day demo and instructions on pens for customers, 6/26/04
Woodturning Demos, all day turning demos for customers, 6/5/04 & 6/6/04, 11/29/03
Barb’s Barn, demo & hands on workshops for 4 local AAW chapters, Elma NY
Sharpening for the Woodturner, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/21/04
Woodturning Fundamentals, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/12/06, 3/20/04
Sharpening Fundamentals, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/8/03, 8/2/03
Mastering the Skew Chisel, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/9/03, 8/3/03
Making Lidded Boxes, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/7/02
Park Avenue Arts Festival,
annual 2 day juried craft show, Rochester NY
Judge for Woodcraft category, Judge for Toys category, 8/7/10, 8/4/07, 8/5/06, 8/6/05, 8/7/04
Juror for festival applicants, 4/2/06
The Woodworking Shows, Buffalo NY
Demonstrator for Jet Tools Sharpening System, 3 days of demos on the Jet Sharpening System, 9/29/06 through 10/1/06
Additional school, festival/fair, craft show, and woodturning judging experience available on request.