Tuesday, July 1st, 7:00pm
Mount Vernon Christian School
820 W Blackburn Rd, Mt Vernon, WA 98273

Doug Moore grew up in Yakima and is married with two grown daughters and three grandchildren. He worked as a carpenter’s helper in high school, and the best part of that job was using dynamite for 6 weeks. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Washington in Mechanical Engineering. In his senior year, he took classes in Northwest Native American art and culture. He fell in love with the artwork and has been drawing and collecting Northwest Native art ever since.

In 1978, Doug began his career as an intern at McKinstry, a Seattle-based construction services company. He rose up through the ranks to become president in 2005 and semi-retired in 2021. During his time at McKinstry, the company started twenty-five new offerings, which fueled his interest in entrepreneurship. This led him to work with the Entrepreneurship Center at Seattle University and join an angel investor club in Seattle.

When Doug started fly fishing in 2018, he immediately bought a bamboo fly rod. In 2020, Doug attended a bamboo fly rod gathering in Seattle, and this led to an introduction to Tom Fulk, a well-known maker of bamboo fly rods in Anacortes. Tom taught Doug how to build bamboo rods. To learn additional rod building techniques, Doug spent two weeks in Canada in one-on-one instruction.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 9:00am
Grizzly Industrial Showroom
1821 Valencia Avenue, Bellingham, WA

Coffee and donuts with a meet and greet will start at 9 a.m. and the facility tour and equipment demonstrations will begin at 9:30.

With 80 members registered for the tour, we would recommend carpooling if you can. Please be sure to wear your NCWA name tags and hats.

This is a golden opportunity to peek behind the scenes at the Grizzly Industrial headquarters in Bellingham. Grizzly is known for quality and affordable machinery and accessories for woodworking and metalworking. The tour will include:

• CNC demonstration (brand new area that will be completed in time for this visit).
• Tour of Grizzly, including warehouses, photo studio, videography studio, QA area, office.
• Metalworking demonstration on lathe and/or mill.
• Catered lunch and a gift for each attendee.

In addition, Grizzly will be holding its annual Dads and Grads Sale in their retail store so should you decide to make a purchase, this will be an opportunity to take advantage of sale prices.

Tuesday, May 6th, 7:00pm
Mount Vernon Christian School
820 W Blackburn Rd, Mt Vernon, WA 98273

The May NCWA meeting program is about Gadgets for Geeks. Have you wondered what value a CNC machine, a 3D printer, or a laser engraver could add to your wood working experience?

We have three speakers lined up to talk about these tools.

Their presentations will be introductory level talks discussing the value the tools can bring to your shop including the requirements in terms of space, power, and computers.

Tuesday, April 1st, 7:00pm
Mount Vernon Christian School
820 W Blackburn Rd, Mt Vernon, WA 98273

“Why buy it when you can build it yourself,” has been Bob Barnard’s motto for the last 50 years. From houses to guitars, he has found it much more interesting and fun to figure out how to make things than buy them off the shelf. When they were looking for an alternative to tent camping a few years ago and they went looking for travel trailers.

When you look closely at modern trailers, they’re cheap shlock and not pleasant to be in. Vintage trailers are also cheap schlock, but they have a charm and utility that are hard to resist. Since they don’t make them anymore, “why not build it yourself?“ Sadly, the corollary “why do it right when you can do it yourself” can also hold true, but we tend to have a poor memory for that kind of thing.

Bob Barnard will show and tell his custom, home built travel trailer. Unique, and truly custom. Built from the ground up, this trailer is a work of art. Beautifully built and customized, the trailer will be on site as well for all to tour, and to “kick the tires”. It should be a fun evening.