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George Pagliarulo

George Pagliarulo

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This forum seemed to be the best place for this.
I am sure there are a lot of new turners who, like me, started reading and participating in these forums to have access to the knowledge and help of more experienced turners, and it is free.
I recently became a full member of AAW and immediately got access to the extensive wealth of information on techniques, tools, set-up, and every other aspect of turning.
The reason I’m posting this is because I want to let others know how valuable this resource is. If you are a new turner, even if you have some experience under your belt, I highly recommend becoming a member of AAW to gain access to all this information. It is pretty inexpensive and the benefits far outweigh the cost.
Best $68 I’ve ever spent?

Member Benefits and Services

www.woodturner.org www.woodturner.org
 
I had the first 15 years of “Fine Woodworking”….until there was a leak and they all got soaked. Glad they are all online.
The second thing I turned was was the segmented bowl shown on the cover of the Winter 1975 issue.
 
George Pagliarulo said:
This forum seemed to be the best place for this.
I am sure there are a lot of new turners who, like me, started reading and participating in these forums to have access to the knowledge and help of more experienced turners, and it is free.
I recently became a full member of AAW and immediately got access to the extensive wealth of information on techniques, tools, set-up, and every other aspect of turning.
The reason I’m posting this is because I want to let others know how valuable this resource is. If you are a new turner, even if you have some experience under your belt, I highly recommend becoming a member of AAW to gain access to all this information. It is pretty inexpensive and the benefits far outweigh the cost.
Best $68 I’ve ever spent?

Member Benefits and Services

www.woodturner.org www.woodturner.org
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Hello
I am also new to the group. and sadly not very computer savey , How do you access all of those links you show on the member services link?

C.A.G.
 
Go to the top of the page and click on Membership. You need to join AAW to access all those benefits. Well worth it. There are some free learning items you can access by clicking Learning at the top of the page but it is miniscule compared to what you get for the reasonable fee of $68 a year. Works out to $0.19 a day. That's not even chump change!
 
Hello there George.

I have the membership, but have no idea how to access the page. None of the links work for me.
I know that I am doing something wrong, but have no idea how to work the machine.
C.A.G.
 
Curt George said:
I have the membership, but have no idea how to access the page. None of the links work for me.
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Well that particular page (the one in George's original post) is pretty odd. It is basically a printable brochure, and none of the blue text that look like links are actually links. Sneaky or just plain bad design. Either way it is confusing.

One option is to just type those links into your browser's address bar.

But all the stuff mentioned in that "brochure" (page) is available on the website somewhere, although the navigation (in my opinion) can be a bit awkward, so it may take a bit of exploring to find.

At the top of every page of woodturner.org is a menu:

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You can hover your mouse over the words (like "Resources") and another menu will come up - and you can either click those words (like "Publications") or sometimes hovering there will bring up more choices.

That assumes you're on a computer. If you're on your phone, the menus are still there, but accessible via the little box with 3 lines (computer people call that a "hamburger menu" because apparently it looks like a burger to someone whose been staring at a computer all day long with nothing to eat but Doritos and Mountain Dew... but I digress):

AAW Main Homepage.jpeg


Hope that helps some!
 
It is confusing. If you have already become a member then what you need to do is go to the AAW main site. On the Forum page, under the AAW banner is a list of options - "Forums, Photo Gallery, What's New etc. If you click the right arrow you will see another option to go to the AAW main site. Click that option and the main site will have the option that Dave's image shows. Click on the "Learn" option and then "Learn about woodturning". That brings up a latheload of training information and resources.
Not the best site navigation design.
 
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