Woodturning, Making Art from Wood

Lake Superior Woodturners

Meeting Information

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Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Time: 6PM – 9 PM

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!

6:00PM CALL TO ORDER

HOST

TREATS: Jon Stephenson

PRESIDENT REPORT – Susan J Van Loon Runnoe

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

Open Treasurer Position

OLD BUSINESS:

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!
Kerry Sopoli: Bowling Pin Challenge
Tom Lohman Segmented Workshop
Wig Stands—always looking for more donations
Tool / Wood Swap coming in September!

NEW BUSINESS:

SHOW & TELL – This month’s theme is Texturing & embellishing.If you have a wood-turned piece that you’ve added texture, embellishing, color … we would love to see it! But, as always, we love to see anything you’ve been turning, so 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. (Doug Runnoe)

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
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This month we’ve asked Doug Runnoe to talk about Texturing.

We’ll talk about why and when to add texture, where to go for ideas, how and why to use story boards to try out your ideas, and then he’ll discuss some finishing tips. Doug will bring in a few rotary power tools and show the differences. He’ll have carbide, diamond, and stone bits and will talk about what each type is best used for. You’ll learn what destroys bits and how to prevent wasting money destroying your tools.

If you have used a rotary “power carving” tool please consider bringing it in to show, talk about what you like, and maybe what you dislike about your particular tool. Members will get a chance to try their hand at power carving, ands make a story board of your own after the meeting.

Below images are from various artists and are included for examples and discussion.

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Other Items:

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

Below images are from various artists and are included for examples and discussion.

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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.