Pursue Your woodworking
Passion
For adults aged 50+ to pursue their passion for woodworking
The Cambridge 50+ Woodworking Club is a not for profit organization that provides the opportunity for 50+ Adults to practice woodworking in a safe and friendly place. In partnership with the City of Cambridge 50+ Recreation Centres, we have our well equipped shops located at the David Durward and the Allen Reuter 50+ Recreation Centres.
The Club provides members the opportunity to socialize, learn from one another, and participate in Club Projects.
Anyone 50 years or older with an interest in woodworking as a hobby is welcome to join our Club. In partnership with the City of Cambridge 50+ Recreation Centres, we strive to provide a safe and friendly environment which allows our members to pursue their interests in woodworking, to share their skills, and to learn from other members.
For those relatively new to woodworking, they can call on more experienced members for guidance when attempting a new technique or wish to use a piece of machinery they are unfamiliar with.
More than just woodworking, our Club provides the opportunity for members to socialize and connect with others who have similar interests.
Our shops are open Monday to Friday, and sometimes on Saturday, 9:00am to 4:30pm
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of our shops
Club Members have access to both our shops, one at the Allan Reuter Centre in Preston, and the other at the David Durward Centre in Galt. Both shops are equipped with professional quality machines.
The Allan Reuter Centre Shop
The shop is located east of the main entrance to the Allan Reuter Centre (ARC) main door. The shop entrance is at 513 King St. East, Cambridge on the east side of the building by the parking lot off King St. You can’t miss our garage door announcing our presence. The door into the shop is on the left of the garage door.
When you come in, you get a great view of of the entire well equipped shop.
The first thing you will notice is our table saw. The saw has flesh sensing technology that will instantly retract the blade should it sense someone touching the blade while the saw is running.
As you walk in to the left of the Saw you will see our Router table and our large band saw
This band saw is great for resawing boards
Next is our drum sander used to sand large surfaces such as charcuterie boards evenly.
The shop has six work benches and three work surfaces that are available each day on a first come first serve basis.
Two lathes are available with accessories to allow member to turn a wide variety of projects.
A down draft table is used to help contain sawdust when sanding. Random Orbital Sanders, finishing sanders, and hand sanding blocks, as well as all of the related sanding disks and papers are available.
We also have a large disk sander and an oscillating drum sander.
Our helical head thickness planer is used to dimension and smooth boards . It can accommodate boards up to 20 ” wide and 12″ high.
Our Long bed 8″ jointer ensure we are able to twists out of boards and our 12″ miter saw is great for cutting stock to length and doing miters cuts.
Our small lathe is used for smaller work and our 14″ bandsaw is used mostly for cutting tight curves.
That concludes our tour of the Allan Reuter shop.
Ready to make sawdust?
If you think you would like to join the Club, ask for a Personal Tour and one of our coordinators will show you around, answer all of your questions, and give you all the membership details you need to decides. if you like what you see, you can join right there.
The David Durward Centre Shop
The shop is located at 62 Dickson Street behind City Hall. The best access is off of Cambridge Street where there is a parking lot. From the lot walk to the back of the building an proceed through the underpass. Look for the Cambridge Centre of the Arts Centre entrance and enter there. You’ll find the entrance to the shop just left of reception.
When you come into the Shop, you’ll first enter a small office space. Walking through the door to the shop, you will get a good view of most of the shop.
The David Durward Centre (DDC) shop is much larger that than the ARC shop and will have multiples of much of the same machinery we have ARC.
To the left you see one of the three miter saws in the shop
The shop has two table saws. both will prevent injury if they sense flesh
as you move to the right of the table saw and turn the corner you see a large edge sander, and more equipment as you look to the back of the shop.
The shop has two router tables and a large selection of bits allowing for a wide variety of shaping operations.
Next is a large bandsaw often used for resawing stock.
As you come to the back of the shop, you see three lathes, two of which are quite large allowing for turning very substantial items.
A little further down are two more bandsaws. These are 14″ saws allowing them to be used for very fine work cutting tight curves as well as resawing up to 12″ wide boards.
Walking further and turning left, on the right side you another space that holds our 20″ and 12″ planers and two 8″ jointers.
Our down draft table used to capture dust from sanding is also in the space.
The door to our finishing room can also be found here. The room allows projects to be finished without concerns of airborne dust.
Retracing our steps, you get another good overview of our shop. There are 14 workbenches and a number of work surfaces available for use.
Just bit further brings us just a few steps away from where we started our tour.
That concludes our tour of the David Durward shop.
Ready to make sawdust?
If you think you would like to join the Club, ask for a Personal Tour and one of our coordinators will show you around, answer all of your questions, and give you all the membership details you need to decides. if you like what you see, you can join right there!