Lake Superior Woodturners
MEETING DETAILS
Date SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2024 NOTICE DATE CHANGE DUE TO A SCHEDULING CONFLICT
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: Statement Document and negotiations with SCS
SHOW & TELL – As we enter the fall season we would love to see some seasonal turnings. What do you turn this time of year? Do you make anything special for the holiday season? Bring in what you’ve been turning. 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
• Bill Penning will demonstrate how to make a classic Yo-Yo. Learn to make this popular toy! Once you learn you’ll see it works superbly and is easy to make. You may need to learn tricks on your own…
• John Skarjas will be doing a skew demo. Of the many tools in a woodturner/s kit, the skew chisel usually falls into the love-it-or hate-it category, with few woodturners remaining neutral. The classically trained tradesmen learn the power and versatility of the skew and it is often their ‘go-to-‘ tool for nearly all of their spindle work. If you haven’t mastered the skew this demonstration is for you!
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