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Milwaukee Area Woodturners list Rob Nelson demo at Woodcraft of Milwaukee

Rob Nelson's Saturday demo lands on MAWT's July 25 calendar at Woodcraft of Milwaukee, with the club still marking the time and cost as tentative.

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Milwaukee Area Woodturners list Rob Nelson demo at Woodcraft of Milwaukee
Source: mawturners.com

Milwaukee Area Woodturners has put Rob Nelson on its Special Saturday Event calendar, and that is the one date worth clearing on a shop schedule for members and guests. The demo is listed for Saturday, July 25 at Woodcraft of Milwaukee, 14115 W Greenfield Ave, New Berlin, Wisconsin, with MAWT still saying the start and stop times, and the cost, are tentative on its Upcoming Events page.

The club’s detailed event page says Rob will be with the group on Saturday, July 25 and will demo woodturning from 9:30 AM until around 4:00 PM. Another MAWT event listing gives the same session as July 25 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and marks it free. With those details still split across pages, the safest move is to check MAWT’s calendar before heading out. The club is also pointing to a Matt Monaco event scheduled for September 26-28, which shows the calendar is being used as a rolling plan rather than a static notice.

This is the kind of demo that pays off fast for turners who want to see a technique under load. A live woodturning session lets you watch tool control, see how a demonstrator handles grain direction and support, and ask questions that do not always fit into a recorded clip. Beginners get a front-row look at basic cut control. Bowl turners can watch how an experienced demonstrator manages shaping, wall thickness, and the transition from roughing to finishing cuts.

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Milwaukee Area Woodturners says its special demonstrator series began in May 2020 with a four-hour Saturday demo by Mike Mahoney, so Rob Nelson’s appearance fits a longer pattern of weekend instruction. The club describes itself as a woodturning club in southeastern Wisconsin, and its public-facing meeting information shows the same kind of active schedule, with website listings for the first Monday of most months at the Milwaukee Woodcraft store from 6:30 to about 8:30 PM and Facebook listings for the first Friday of the month from September to May, 7:00 to 8:30 PM, with demonstrations and show-and-tell.

With the timing still marked tentative, MAWT’s event calendar is the page to watch before you head to Woodcraft of Milwaukee in New Berlin.

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