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The American Association of Woodturners
 

AAW Forum and Online Photo Gallery

 

Moderators

Steve Worcestor, Kurt Bird and Ken Grunke will continue to provide their expert advice and moderation.

Forum Contests (Updated 4/15/08)

Approximately every quarter, the AAW Forum conducts a turning contest, each with a different theme that follows a recently published article in the AW Journal. Click on the links below to view our contest history.

Spring 2008

Winter 2007

Fall 2007

Summer 2007

Spring 2007

Winter 2006

Fall 2006

Summer 2006

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Winter 2005

Fall 2005

Summer 2005

Spring 2005

Link to Forum and Online Gallery

Dial in here to view forum photos and messages posted by AAW members and visitors.

About the Forum features

A) New registration is required to use these features. You can use your existing ID and password, but you will manually have to register yourself into the forum.

B) You will only have to register once. The two features (forum and gallery) share the same registration system.

C) For the photo gallery, both registered and non-registered folks may view the pictures and comments. But only registered folks may post pictures and comments.

D) The new text forum essentially replaces the existing forum.

Features of the text forum (listed in #1 above) include:
  • ability to "subscribe" to threads via email notification when a discussion thread receives new messages
  • avatar support...avatars are pictures which you can use to represent your online persona and profile
  • personal profiles which would help everyone get to know one another

    • the profiles allow you to list various personal items such as your website, your bio, etc
  • private messaging
  • for the moderators stickies (announcements) can be placed at the top of the board for important "should see" items
  • more formatting and message font options
  • a members list for registered users
  • ability for you to reset forgotten passwords yourself


    • Features of the online photo gallery are extensive. The online gallery allows the woodturning community to post pictures and share discussions about the pictures. Features include:
  • ability to post and discuss pictures
  • formats supported are jpg, png, and gif
  • mpegs and animations not supported
  • you can have your own online woodturning gallery

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