World Wide Wood Turners lines up May demos and club meetings

World Wide Wood Turners packed May with a rhythm that leaves very little dead air for turners looking for a live demo, a club night or a quick fix on a problem piece. The month’s calendar pairs recurring YouTube demonstrations from Kirk Kapp with weekly online meetings, a Saturday help session and a Detroit-area club gathering, giving members several ways to plug into the same craft community.

The most visible anchor is the Saturday demo series by Kirk Kapp, set for May 16, May 23 and May 30 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern on YouTube. That recurring slot gives the month a weekend learning lane built around demonstration-based viewing, with each session easy to mark off on the calendar and easy to revisit through the club’s video archive.

The weekly World Wide Wood Turners meeting continues every Wednesday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Central on Zoom, and the club says those gatherings are free of charge. The format is built for active participation: how-to demonstrations, tips and tricks, safety moments, a video gallery of turned projects and live participants showing their latest work. The club’s own calendar page lays the month out in grid form, making the repeated schedule plain at a glance rather than burying it in a list.

For turners who want a quicker, more problem-solving kind of session, Woodturning Interactive Saturday Surgery meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month in both the United Kingdom and Eastern time. World Wide Wood Turners frames that session as free help for anyone needing advice on woodturning-related problems, which makes it the most obvious stop for a rough rim, a stubborn finish or a setup question that does not wait for next week.

The club’s May calendar also included a Detroit Area Wood Turners meeting on May 17 at Rising Stars Academy in Center Line, Michigan. Detroit Area Woodturners says it is based in the Detroit area of Michigan, is focused on woodturning, usually meets on the third Sunday of each month from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., and is a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. Its annual dues are $40 for an individual and $50 for a family, and the club says it also offers scholarships and a lending library.

That broader network helps explain why World Wide Wood Turners can sustain this pace. The club says it began in 2019 after Capt. Eddie Castelin imagined an international woodturning club with no dues and no advertisements, and it now counts members from New Zealand, Europe, England, Asia and the Americas. Its YouTube channel holds videos of meetings, demos and tutorials, while a site disclaimer reminds viewers that woodturning involves inherently dangerous tools and requires proper PPE and safe procedures.

By month’s end, the pattern is clear: if you want a single place to watch, learn, troubleshoot and show work, May’s schedule makes World Wide Wood Turners feel less like a calendar and more like a standing room full of turners already at the lathe.