The National Wood Carvers Association was founded in 1953 and has memebers in every state. It is for amateur and professional carvers. Their website is not quite as extensive as the AAW, but it does have a link to join and subscribe to their magazine Chip Chats.
National Wood Carvers Association
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Today's Cool Woodworking Link is the American Association of Woodturners. The AAW was founded in 1986 and now boasts more than 13,000 members in 268 local chapters around the country.
If you are a woodturner or are interested in woodturning, the AAW is a great place to start. The AAW website has a listing of all of their local chapters. (The Georgia Association of Woodturners meets here at Highland Woodworking on the third Thursday of each month.) If you are interested, you can also find info on the annual symposium.
In addition to club information, the AAW site features want ads, forums, galleries and woodturning news.
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Matt Vanderlist is an amateur woodworker. He podcasts regularly on a variety of woodworking topics, from safety to tuning handplanes. His blog includes descriptions of his podcast plus jig plans and links to cool sites. I've been listening to it regularly for a few months now and I think you'll find it interesting. You can download the podcast directly from his website or through your normal podcast aggregator.
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