May Meeting

For our May 1st meeting, we will have a N.A.M.E.S. Slideshow and anything else you’d like to talk about.

Same time and place; 7:00-8:30 at Imagine This Church in Grand Ledge.

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April Meeting

April 3rd will be our Project Show and Tool Sale.

Bring anything you’ve been working on, finished or not; and bring any tools that could use a new home.

7:00pm  – 8:30pm in the basement of Imagine This Church in Grand Ledge.

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March Meeting: Ann Arbor Tours

The Portland Machinist Guild will be traveling to Ann Arbor this Saturday, March 10th for a tour of several makerspaces.

http://g.co/maps/rb52z

9:00 Leave from the Okemos Park-n-Ride.  Located behind Cracker Barrel at I-96 exit 110. http://g.co/maps/7qugw
10:30 MakerWorks
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Current Motors
1:30 Alro Metals Plus
2:30 All Hands Active
3:30 A2MechShop
4:30 Smithy

Hope to see you there.

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February Meeting: Gun-smithing

The topic of our February meeting will be gun-smithing. James Baker will have a presentation on the history of the gun. Bring any work, stories, or pictures you would like to share.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

We are meeting in the basement of Imagine This Church, the former bank on the East corner. 227 S. Bridge St. Grand Ledge MI, 48837. Parking is in the rear.

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Welcome to the Portland Machinist Guild

Welcome to the Portland Machinist Guild. We’ve been meeting for about thirteen years now and some of us think it’s high time we had a web site, though not all agree. In any case, please remember that we’re machinists, not programmers or poets so the site could be a bit rough. The idea at moment is simply a place to let you know who we are and what we’re up to.  And, since a good number of us don’t have computers, it isn’t likely to get more sophisticated than that.

The Portland Machinist Guild is a group of folks interested in metalworking who get together once a month with like-minded members from the mid-Michigan area. We have been featured in The Home Shop Machinist (July/Aug 2003) and at the Michigan Historical Museum (May 13 – June 25, 2006. From the Mind of the Machinist: Gadgets from the Portland Machinist Guild).

You’re welcome to stop by our next meeting. Bring along a project if you can, we’d love to see what you’ve been working on.

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