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My name is Kim Dailey and I live in a small town in the western
foothills of Maine. I grew up in this area and now live here
with my wife and two young daughters in a house we helped
build. I have been building things since 1990 when we moved back here. I've made bookcases,
entertainment centers, rocking horses and anything else that
has struck my fancy. I started turning in the spring of 2000 and I've been hooked ever since.
In the spring of 2004, after attending a meeting of the Maine Woodturners in S. China, Maine, I got the idea of starting a woodturning club at our local high school. It would be a lot closer (the drive to S. China is 1 1/2 hours one way) and I knew of a few woodturners that wouldn't travel that distance. So in May of 2004 we had our first meeting with 11 hardy woodturning souls attending and the Western Mountain Woodturners was born. In the three years since starting the club we have grown to 24 members and have been able to purchase a new lathe and some more miscellanous turning equipment for the school's woodshop. Up until that point the kids were using equipment that was not new when I graduated from the school in the early 80's.
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