Woodturning, Making Art from Wood

Lake Superior Woodturners

Meeting Notice

Meeting Date: Saturday, January 11, 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

New Business – Membership Committee, Bonnie to chair

Show & Tell – The holiday season can be a crazy time of year. Have you been able to spend some time in your shop? We would love to see what you have been doing! 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

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 –

Our December topic is: The January topic is: “Design; steps to create a Beautiful Design” led by Tom Lohman

We will focus on design in this demonstration. We will first look at various sources to find inspiration. Next, we will learn how to create patterns and choose the best form and wood for the selected pattern. We will then investigate form and its constructability, along with tips to build challenging forms. Project size selection based on form, pattern, and constructability will be covered in addition to various styles of segmented wood turning and the design and build of selected feature rings. Finally, we will cover the use of computer-based design tools.

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

————————————————————————–

Click here to see all meeting detail.

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

Click here to see directions

End of Meeting Details for June 8th.

———————————————————————————————–

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