Woodturning, Making Art from Wood

Lake Superior Woodturners

Meeting Notice

Meeting Date: SATURDAY, March 8, 2025

Time: 9AM – 12PM

Location: Jon Stephenson’s Shop, 9 Kilner Bay Drive, Superior, WI

Agenda

Half-hour before the meeting: Meeting set-up (Chairs & Lathe) plus coffee & chatter!

9:00AM Call to Order

Presidents Report – Susan Van Loon Runnoe

Treasure’s Report – Paul Howard: Current balance, Income and Expenses

Old Business:
● Superior Craft School (SCS) update. (Jon)
● Superior Curling Club Northwest Bonspiel this weekend. Last game approx 1pm Sunday with the presentation of the wooden curling rock trophies immediately afterwards.

New Business –

● 2025 AAW Symposium this July!

Volunteering opportunities: Volunteers are needed to help with the following activities: Instant Gallery, Special Exhibitions, AAW Merchandise Sales, Registration, Pen Turning Instruction, Tool Room, Vendor Assistants, Videography, Volunteer Booth, and Youth Turning.

Show your work in the gallery!

● Note: This April we will hold elections for 3 Board of Director positions. If you are at all interested in running please let us know by emailing dorun920@yahoo.com and/or sjeval@pcinter.net. We will get information regarding those that are running out to all members before the April meeting.

Show & Tell – In March our thoughts turn to … spring?!? Are you doing any special turnings for the season? Easter Eggs?!? Bring in what you’ve been turning, and as usual, you can ask for critiques of your work, or you can simply show your turnings. We can discuss turning ‘challenges’, talk about best practices, and chat about perplexing pieces of wood you would like suggestions on how to turn or what to turn it into. We would like to have members show one of their turnings and once everyone has a chance, additional items can be shown if time permits.

Safety Minute: Open Discussion – Best practices, what to do and what not to do in the shop.
(i.e. Jon Stephenson – sparks in the workshop!)

Raffle – An ongoing item on our agenda is our Raffle. If you have any items to donate for the raffle, whether it’s a woodturning book, a piece of wood, a pen or bowl blank, a tool you don’t use, or maybe a turning you have done, we would sincerely appreciate the donation. Depending upon the quantity of donations received your item may be saved for a future month’s raffle.

Program – March Demo “Scoop/Ladle/Drinking Cup” by Jon Stephenson

This scoop/ladle/drinking cup is a knuckle buster (if not careful!).

I will start with a screw chuck to shape the bottom of the bowl and part of the handle. I’ll leave a tenon on the bottom allowing the piece to be flipped over and the bowl can now be hollowed out.
The handle (knuckle buster) prohibits shaping the rim of the piece which is in the same plane as the handle. Shaping the rim requires rasps and other handheld dust/chip makers. Chip carving on the handle can provide additional artistic expression opportunities.

The current Board of Directors:

President Susan Van Loon Runnoe
Vice President Bill Penning
Secretary Doug Runnoe
Treasurer Paul Howard
Program Manager – John Skarja
Bonnie McDermid
Greg Whitaker

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“Thank you to Ray Hyde and the Lake Superior Wood Turners for their donations of Wig Stands! We have been blessed by this amazing contribution on more than one occasion.”

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Pictures from the March 2025 meeting

Pictures from the February 2025 meeting

Pictures from the January 2025 meeting

Ray Hyde, from the Lake Superior Woodturners presents wig stands to Christine See from the Northwest Wisconsin Cancer Center to be distributed to cancer patients.

To date the Lake Superior Woodturners have been able to distribute:

18 stands to Ruth’s Free Wig Closet in Grand Rapids and
7 stands to Northwest Wisconsin Cancer Center

Pictures from the December 2024 meeting

Pictures from the October 2024 meeting

Pictures for the September 2024 meeting

Pictures for the July 2024 meeting

Pictures for the June 2024 Meeting

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End of Meeting Details for June 8th.

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May 2024 Club Meeting Pictures

April 2024 Club Meeting Pictures

March 9th, 2024 club meeting pictures

The class of 2024 Curling trophies

Bill Penning, Jon Stephenson, Caleb Shadis, Bonnie McDermid, Ray Hyde, Greg Whitaker, Doug Runnoe, and Susan Van Loon Runnoe. Missing from the picture is Ray Hyde and Doug Runnoe.

February 2024 club meeting picture

Wig Stand Project

Sharon Rasmussen, from Ruth’s Free Wigs in Grand Rapids and Ray Hyde, from the Lake Superior Woodturners, exchange wig stands turned and donated by members of the wood turning club.

January 2024 club meeting picture