Discover What You Can Create

The Port Townsend Rock Club is a place where individuals and families come together to share their interest in rocks and rockhounding and to develop, refine and practice their skills cutting rocks, polishing stones, making custom jewelry and creating works of art using stone and metal. Whether you are a beginner, experienced, young or old come join the club for classes, workshops, fun events, learning from each other and more.

Key Offerings:

  • Classes on creating your own custom jewelry

  • How to cut and shape cabochons

  • Monthly open workshops for members to cut and polish their own stones

  • Beading and wire wrapping

  • Access to metal smithing tools and equipment

  • Opportunities to volunteer

  • Booth space to sell your own goods during the annual Port Townsend Fair

  • Monthly club meetings

General Meeting: 

5:00pm the last Monday of most months

Workshops: 

2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month   10:00am - 4:00pm

Workshop before the general meeting  1:00pm - 5:00pm

The Rock Club is closed during the month of August, for the Jefferson County Fair, and during December for the holidays.

Workshops, Classes, Meetings and Events

Tailings

Thoughts about the Port Townsend Rock Club. It’s the first day of the new website and I’m excited and grateful. We, as a group, have been working very hard and with intention to make this club a place that people with an interest in rocks, stones, minerals and associated activities can gather and create objects of beauty, usefulness, and value to keep and share. I’m proud of the projects that have been completed in the past year and two months that I have been President. I have ideas, some have been taken up and completed, some have politely rejected, some have been ignored and I’m so thankful for the lessons I’ve learned.

While not my idea, we have installed new lights in the shop, I acknowledge our members and friends for making this happen. We have sorted, upgraded and improved the display cases for our Fair Event, more volunteers doing more than asked or expected. We are maintaining and upgrading our Lapidary equipment and working to have an organized and safe working environment. I see our future being challenging and full of adventure as we include more members as stewards to ensure everyone is accommodated and able to create in an inviting environment as more people join us.

Like the title says, Tailings, the left overs from the mining of a single prize, like gold, that left a whole lot of other, unrecognized good stuff behind, to be later mined again for more treasure. I’m looking for a better future for our club.

- John Miller, President