Lake Superior Woodturners
Meeting Information
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Meeting Date: Wednesday, June 10th 2026
Location: 1314 Ogden Avenue, Superior, WI
Time: 6PM – 9 PM
Half-hour before the meeting: Meeting set-up (Chairs & Lathe) plus coffee & chatter!
TREATS:
Filling in for J Dorfman who will be out of town is Doug and Susan
AGENDA
6PM Call To Order –
When you get to the meeting, please sign in so we know who is attending, and wear a name badge to help those who are not familiar with who we are put names to our faces.
President Report -Susan J Van Loon Runnoe
Treasure Report -Current balance, Income and Expenses
Old Business –
Elizabeth Weber Demonstration and Workshops this past weekend. Recap.
New Business –
Tom Lohman’s Segmented Workshop – second session. Rescheduling to July? (an email is being sent to those who had been interested to check on availability)
Kerry Sopoli: Bowling Pin Challenge
Wig Stands—always looking for more donations
Mentoring: Whether you are interested in finding a mentor to help you with a particular woodturning skill, or if you are experienced and wouldn’t mind sharing your skills with others, we want to know. We are trying to match individuals to expand our talents!
SHOW & TELL –
As always, we love to see what you’ve been turning. Do you have summer turning projects? Have you turned replacement handles for your tools? Are you being inspired by anything at the AAW symposium? Bring in your turnings and show what you have been up to. When you show your pieces 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, if time permits additional items can be shown.
Safety Minute –
Open Discussion – Best practices, what to do and what not to do.
Raffle –
If you have an item 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 – Jerry Maly will be demonstrating the McNaughton bowl coring system.
Big blanks are challenging to come by and can be very expensive. Shoveling shavings into the trash that would have made a few more bowls is a shame. By using a coring system, you can produce 3-4 additional bowls from a single large wood blank.
Jerry will demonstrate coring to produce several natural edge bowl blanks.
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Click here to download 2025 – 2026 membership form
Current Board of Directors:
- President Susan Van Loon Runnoe
- Vice President Bill Penning
- Secretary Doug Runnoe
- Treasurer Paul Howard
- Program Director – John Skarja
- Bonnie McDermid
- Greg Whitaker
Elizabeth Weber Demonstration and Workshops
Join us for a special LSW Demonstration with Elizabeth Weber on Saturday, June 6th from 9am-11am at our shop. The demo costs $15 per person to cover the demonstrator’s fee, and attendees will have a chance to win a special door prize. This is a rare opportunity to see a professional woodturner from out of state showcase their techniques. Please come out to support our club and this talented artist.
Elizabeth Weber’s Workshops will be held Friday, June 5th, Saturday June 6th, and Sunday June 7th. Topics covered will be Spoon Carving, Carving a Wave/Leaf Motif, and Turning and Embellishing Boxes. The cost for each individual workshop is $110.
We do have a have few open spots in the Spoon Carving class, if you would like to join the great group that is already enrolled let us know so we can get your name in!
We also have a wait list for our other workshops in case someone needs to drop out, if you would like to put your name on one of the wait-lists for either the Wave/Leaf Motif or the Turning and Embellishing Boxes workshop, let us know you are interested.
Pictures from the June 2026 Elizabeth Weber Demonstration
Pictures from the May 2026 meeting
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Pictures Below Are From The 2026 Segmented Woodturning Workshop
Pictures from the March 2026 Meeting
This is our 5th year of turning 4 trophies for the Superior Curling club’s 92nd Annual Northwest Bonspiel. This year’s trophies were made of Cherry which produced some of the most attractive trophies yet
February 2026 meeting pictures
January 2026 meeting pictures
December 2025 meeting pictures
November 2025 meeting pictures
October 2025 pictures of move and club meeting pictures
Pictures from the August 2025 meeting
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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