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Purcellville Facility | Dave Painter | Purcellville | - Next workday is Saturday, April 6th starting at 9am
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Leesburg Facility | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg | - Next workday is Saturday, April 13th 9am-2pm (or later!)
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3D Printing | Scott Silvers | Leesburg & Purcellville | - We will be building new tables in the Leesburg 3D printing room during the next workday and could use a lot of help moving things around and cutting things on the CNC. If you are interested in helping out with this, please contact Jessee! Scott is out for recovery from surgery until the end of the month
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Arts, Crafts & Stained Class Area in Purcellville | Ken Fuentecilla & Dawn Martin | Purcellville Lower Building |
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Arts, Crafts & Sewing Area in Leesburg | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg | The Leesburg Arts, Craft & Sewing area is looking for a co-steward or main steward!- Sewing classes taught by Amy Copley coming super soon!
- Amy has started holding sewing socials in Purcellville on different Wednesdays! Check the calendar for more info.
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Big Red CNC | Brass Hess & Jonathan White | Leesburg | |
Big Blue | Jonathan White | Purcellville |
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Blacksmithing | Adam "Squirrl" McClintock & Jim Waldron | Purcellville Lower Building | - The weather is getting slightly warmer, so keep an eye out for classes soon
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Blast/Paint/ Powder Coating | Evin Grano | Purcellville | - Evin will be teaching regularly scheduled classes this month and next! If you ever wanted to learn about Sandblasting, powder Coating and more, now is the time.
- Leesburg classes will be coming soon
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Ceramics | Bo Wernick | Purcellville Lower Building | - The kiln has run 3 times in March so all pots that were in the que are ready for pickup or glaze
- We have an extruder that works great. Feel free to give it a go next time you're in, but be advised its a lot of cleanup.
- I am planning a beginner wheel class and a balloon/coil pot class for late April. I would like a list of interested people. Please contact scheduling if interested!
- @Kate Amstutz has offered to teach an intermediate/advanced wheel class. Bo would like a list of interested people for that as well.
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Cosplay Area | Maggie & Jason Gilligan | Leesburg | - Have you seen the new room?? It's looking amazing! We will need help during the next workday patching up some holes in the walls, painting over the patches and hanging a tv.
- We are also in need of instructors for cosplay! Are you interested?
- Cosplay Night is every Thursday in Leesburg 6:30-8:30pm
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Electronics | Mark Millsap | Leesburg | - Electronics has been meeting during Electronics night (every other Thursday, the next one is tomorrow night at 7pm) to plan out the new Electronics Room downstairs! Are you interested? Do you have ideas? If so, just show up and participate
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Gardening | Mary Waldron & Jennifer Chu | Leesburg & Purcellville | - Contact the stewards if you are interested in assisting at either site!
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HP Plotter | Randy Holland (pending board approval) | Purcellville | - Randy Holland was appointed as Steward at the Feb. board meeting
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HVAC Filters | Dean Williamson | Leesburg | - Dean is always on top of this!
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Laser Cutters | John Dubelko & Jessee Maloney & John Carter | Leesburg & Purcellville | - We are in talks with a buyer for the Universal Laser cutter and it's going well, so if you haven't been trained on the Nova lasers, please do so soon!
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Metal Shop in Leesburg & Tormach | Brad Hess | Leesburg | - Do you know how to make jewelry? Do you like to do stamped jewelry? Would you like to teach?? If so, please let scheduling know!
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Metal Shop in Purcellville | Dave Painter & | Purcellville | |
Plasma Cutter | Jim Waldron | Purcellville |
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Printmaking | John Carter | Leesburg |
- Printmaking classes to commence in late April or early May at MSL
- New Makersmiths Printmaking Studio to start being built out once the rest of the rooms have successfully switcheroo'd.
- New equipment is being purchased as part of a proposal put forth to the board in March. We are very excited!
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Purcellville Green Room | OPEN | Purcellville | |
Purcellville Woodshop | Dave Painter | Purcellville |
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Snack Area | J Wang | Leesburg | |
Sublimation Printer | New Steward: Diane Bollinger | Leesburg | - Diane Bollinger was appointed as the new Sublimation Steward in Leesburg!
- Classes will begin soon!
- A new Hat Heat Press was purchased and can be used for sublimating, heat transfer vinyl and just attaching patches to hats! It's also great for anything curved.
- We need help building a shelf under the heat press for the mug press and the hat press to live.
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UV Printer | Jessee Maloney & John Carter | Leesburg | - The UV printer was moved to it's new home on the back wall in Leesburg! Come take a look!
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Vacuum Formers | Jessee Maloney | Leesburg |
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Vinyl Cutter & Cricuts | OPEN | Leesburg & Purcellville | |
Welding | Jim Waldron & John Johnson | Purcellville |
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Woodshop in Leesburg | Mike Dewan | Leesburg | - Message from Mike Dewan: Please clean up the woodshop when you finish!!! Recent members have left with dust, wood chips, and tools over all surfaces. If the trash can is 2/3 or more full please empty it and place a new trash bag in the can. The woodshop steward does not have cleaning up after you as one of his responsibilities.
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Woodturning` | Ken Fuentecilla & Bryan Boston | Leesburg | |
