Membership benefits

What do you get for your $40?

  • A membership roster: Contact other club members, share tips and tools, ask questions, etc.
  • Special interest groups. Get together with others to plan programs or outings, share tips, and collaborate on topics such as hand tools, making small tables, or wood turning.
  • Our electronic newsletter: It’s monthly, with occasional updates.
  • Discounts. First to offer them to our members: Edensaw in Port Townsend.
  • Quarterly meetings. Each has a program on a woodworking-related topic.
  • Classes. Offered through the Bainbridge parks department. Members can suggest topics or sign up to teach.
  • Community service. Receive notices about situations where people in our community need woodworking assistance. Volunteering lets you give back to your community—and learn more about woodworking in the process.
  • A community woodshop. By joining and volunteering in various ways, you can help make our dream of a community woodshop a reality. The more members we have, and the more active we all are, the greater our chances of getting the significant grants we need to pay for the shop and all of the site development work that goes along with it.

  • Not your typical bus shelter

    Bus shelter framing The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timberframed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled and finished the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development. Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood, and timberframers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery. See how the structure took shape.