Woodturning, Making Art from Wood

Lake Superior Woodturners

Meeting Information

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Date: October 10, 2026

Time: 9AM – Noon

Location: 1314 Ogden Avenue, Superior, WI

AGENDA

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.

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

Host

9:00AM CALL TO ORDER

PRESIDENT REPORT – Susan J Van Loon Runnoe

Summer and Winter meeting times/days discussion (when should we move to our ‘regular’/winter schedule? When to have fall kick-off.
Open turning opportunities. What is being offered, member experiences, discussion.
Email issues –There seems to have been a bug we are working to resolve, and hopefully we have it corrected, but please let us know if you or someone you know haven’t been getting our emails.

TREASURE REPORT – Current balance, Income and Expenses (Kerry)

OLD BUSINESS:

Bonnie McDermid thank you.
Pen Turning workshop (Bill P), moving workshop to November if enough interest.
Wood and Tool Swap – Reminder– Thoughts… What did you like? Opportunities to improve? Do we do it again? Please send you thoughts and comments to Doug.
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!
Name Badges. We think we are up-to-date with the new nametags for all members. If you have paid your dues and yet you don’t have a nametag please let us know so we can make one up for you!

NEW BUSINESS

2026-2027 Membership forms & dues!
Looking Ahead . . . Christmas is Coming! Susan has a couple ideas on how we can make this season special
- 1.Tree Decoration! We are asking all LSW members to turn your favorite ornament(s) and contribute them to help decorate a tree to go in the front window of the shop. Please bring them in at the November meeting so we can get them displayed in December.
- 2. Ornament Exchange. For the December LSW Member Meeting we would like to have an Ornament exchange. We are asking those who would like to participate to bring an ornament they have lovingly created (turned, colored, decorated, or otherwise embellished and finished) for a Holiday Ornament Swap. Think of it being kind of like a ‘secret santa’exchange with other LSW members. Ornaments will be placed in a plain brown paper bag if you have one, great, if not we will have plain paper bags you can use at the shop) and all who contributed will get to pick out one of the ornament bags. What a cool way to get a new ornament to bring home!

SHOW & TELL – Last October a group from LSW drove down to Somerset, WI because we heard a grove of Black
Walnut trees were toppled by a storm and the property owner was offering the walnut to anyone who
would come help clear these trees from his property. Excited about the prospect of getting a trailer-full
of black walnut for free we drove down – we brought 4 (5?) trailer loads of walnut back, and offered it
to club members. The owner of the property is our guest presenter this month and we thought it
would be a cool idea to bring in some items made out of the walnut for our show and tell. Whether
you have something made out of the Somerset Walnut or another beautiful walnut piece you’ve made
bring it in to show off!

We would also love to see other pieces you’ve made, so if anyone else has a turning they’ve done
and would like to brag, ask the experts, or just prove to us you’ve been turning, we would love to see
it! As always, 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

The current Board of Directors:

President Susan Van Loon Runnoe
Vice President Bill Penning
Secretary Doug Runnoe
Program Director – John Skarja
Bonnie McDermid
Greg Whitaker
Skott Nielsen

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Pictures of the July 2026 meeting

Pictures of the June Club Meeting

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Pictures from the June 2026 Elizabeth Weber Workshop

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.