Lake Superior Woodturners
Meeting Notice
Meeting Date: SATURDAY, April 12, 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)
New Business –
● 2025 AAW Symposium this June 12-15, 2025!
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!
● Election of 3 Board Members whose terms will run from July 2025 through July 2027.
NOTE: For those that cannot make it to the April 12th meeting, we are accepting member’s votes by email. We still encourage those who cannot attend the meeting in person, to hear any additional nominations or discussion on the candidates.
Show & Tell – It’s now April and we prepare for summer, are you turning handles for tools? Vases for spring flowers? What are your turnings for this season? 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 –
Ray Hyde will do a presentation describing Canarywood.
April Program – Work Holding
John Skarja will be demonstrating various methods of work holding. Most turners are familiar with the spur drive and scroll chucks. John will demonstrate a variety of other ways to safely mount and hold your wood blanks. This will include collets, friction drives, jam chucks, variations of faceplates, vacuum chucks and more. Some of these are commercially available and some shop made.
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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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
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End of Meeting Details for June 8th.
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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.
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October 2023 Craft School Fall Festival


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Cornucopia Art Festival
Ray, Greg, Susan & Doug did demos at the Cornucopia Art Festival.



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Dibber Sales: Greg & Sally Whitaker sold 17 in 2 hours @ the Duluth plant sale.

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March 2023 Platter Workshop



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Club project, 2023 Curling Stone Trophies


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The Lake Superior Woodturners are an affiliate of the AAW (American Association of Woodturners) http://woodturner.org and are committed to the cause of providing education, information and community to those interested in woodturning.
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