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Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild's  2025 Spring Competition.

We are pleased and thankful to have held the 2025 Spring Competition at Exotic Woods in Burlington on Thursday June 19, 2025.   

Special thanks to this year's judges John Hordyk Sr. and Mel Hordyk (owners of Exotic Woods).

Congratulations to not only this year's winners, but to ALL those who made entries into the competition.  The value of our competition, is enhanced by everyone's contribution.


The 2025 Most Promising Novice award

presented to  ...

The 2025 Best In Show award, as selected by a panel of judges

(John Hordyk Sr & Mel Hordyk), was presented to ...  




Novice - Small submissions

1st  Wayne Heil

2nd  Wayne Heil

3rd Ernie Hall  

Novice - Large submissions  

1st Ladan Khodrang

2nd      Albert Heemskerk

3rd Dale Giesbrecht and Eric Carroll

Intermediate - Small submissions 

1st   Suzanne Wood

2nd    Andy Weerdenberg

2nd   Martin Renters 

Intermediate - Large submissions   

1st     Rick Veenstra

2nd     Andy Weerdenberg

3rd     Iain Douglas

Open - Small submissions  

1st     Chris Sisson

2nd     Charles Jordan and Scott Millard

3rd     Charles Jordan

Open - Large submissions   

1st   David Senecal

2nd   Keith Robinson

3rd   Malcolm Cumming

Segmented submissions    (pictures will be added post-competition)

1st   Maurice Solar

2nd   Ed Erl


Welcome to the Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild 2025 Spring Competition.

We are pleased to be holding the 2025 Spring Competition during our final meeting before summer break at Exotic Woods in Burlington.  This will be held at our usual 3rd Thursday meeting, on Thursday June 19, 2025

We are hoping that year's judges will once again be John Hordyk Sr. and Mel Hordyk (owners of Exotic Woods) who will announce "Best in Show" at 9pm.


Click here for the  Competition Entry Form .  Fill out this form and bring it with your entries on June 19th.

  HINT:  you may need to click the "Enable Editing" button once the Entry form opens in Word

Click here for the  Spring Competition Rules and Guidelines


The following chart illustrates the 7 submission categories.  Please remember to fit into a 5"x5"x10" box the submission must be fully assembled.  Note: This size threshold is a little larger than in previous years (formerly 4x4x8).






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