rwarnold80
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Are there any pen or wood turning shows in the Boston Area or New England? My 11 year old son turns and wants to go to Boston really bad. I'm trying to find a reason to go for a nice weekend there.
Are there any pen or wood turning shows in the Boston Area or New England? My 11 year old son turns and wants to go to Boston really bad. I'm trying to find a reason to go for a nice weekend there.
We are in the Chicago area, and have MPG and there is a pen show the next weekend. He just wants to visit Boston, so looking for an excuse. Might just have to be a Sox game. I haven't been to one of them in Boston since 99.In the pre-Covid era, the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers held a turning symposium at Pinkerton Academy, in Derry, NH every third year. I think the last one was in 2018 - https://www.gnhw.org/symposium/ninth-new-england-turning-symposium-2018 - but don't know if there are plans for another. Derry is about 40 miles north of Boston.
I don't know of any specifically pen-turning shows, but as Louie says there are classes at stores like Woodcraft in Cambridge and Rockler in Salem, NH. I spoke with Ron Blais, who used to teach a pen-turning class at the Woodcraft store in Woburn, MA, and he told me the classroom has been fully occupied by furniture builders for a few months and he hasn't taught pen-turning classes there for a while.
If he likes fountain pens (new and vintage), as opposed to pen making, there's the Commonwealth Pen Show, next one is scheduled for September 18, 2022, at the Holiday Inn "Boston/Bunker Hill" in Somerville, MA.