I am sorry you had this experience. I have been a member of the woodshop for 10 years. This is not the norm, sometimes the person at the desk does not know what projects we can do at this time. If that person told you something I am sure they believed it to be true.
When you returned a more experienced person was at the desk and told you that it could not be done.
Our bylaws say that if you can hire someone to do the work we cannot do it. WE would be taking work away from a local carpenter.
We have hundreds of members please don't judge a club by one or two people
sitting out front.
Your best bet is to have a friend who is a member do this for you. Or hire a contractor who will do it.
WE are a volunteer organization and have many responsibilities related to that club. Each one of us who are members all contribute time and money. Like any place there are a few bad apples, but my experience is that those working at the front office are very pleasant.
I hope you move down and join, because I won't live anywhere else because I will not give up my membership to the woodshop. There are more tools in there than you can dream about and folks with woodworking skills that are off the charts. Alway eager to help if you just ask. We offer classes and someone with no skills can learn to be a decent carpenter. I can make just about anything I need and I started with zero skills. If I can do it , anyone can.
Nancy Jordan Blackmore
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Originally Posted by A-2-56
I am in the process of hanging sliding barn doors in my home.
I need 1/2” cut from the top of each door and then a 1/4” wide by 13/16” deep router cut or groove cut in the bottom of each door for a floor guide.
On Friday I visited the Villages Woodworkers Club off Rolling Acres Drive. The fellow at the counter told me to bring them in Monday between 10 & 2 and they will take care of it.
So I load the two doors in my car, drive down there and I was rather rudely told that they don’t help people this way. I explained that I was told on Friday. “No, we don’t do that!” I tried to explain that this was very simple and I would pay someone, but the two men there wanted to hear nothing of what I was saying.
I had thought about joining the club once I get moved down here full time, but if the people out front represent the rest of the members, I don’t think that I am interested. They cannot even converse.
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