December 2024 meeting pictures
MEETING DETAILS
Date SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2024
Time 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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!
9:00 a.m. CALL TO ORDER
PRESIDENT REPORT – Susan Van Loon Runnoe
TREASURE REPORT – Paul Howard: Current balance, Income and Expenses
OLD BUSINESS: Superior Craft School (SCS) update.
NEW BUSINESS: Membership Committee, Bonnie to chair
SHOW & TELL – Have you done any special turnings for the holidays? Gifts? Ornaments? Decorations? We would love to see what you have done! 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
******
The December topic is: “Things I wish I had known when I started turning”
Possible topics include:
- Tools: What was a good purchase, what wasn’t. How many is enough.
- Safety: PPE, speed, mounting
- Wood: Shrinkage, species, grain orientation
- Sanding and finishing
- Design
Please let John Skarja (jfskarja@yahoo.com) know what you would like to discuss or demo for scheduling so we don’t have a lot of duplication.
Last month, John Skarja’s program was a skew demo. Basic cuts were discussed. We did not have the opportunity for members to try their hand at the skew. At the end of our December meeting, you will have the opportunity to try the skew. So, if you’ve been avoiding your skew, bring it along and hopefully reduce your skew anxiety a bit.
******
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