MEETING DETAILS
Date SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025
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:
SHOW & TELL – The holiday season can be a crazy time of year. Have you been able to spend some time in your shop? We would love to see what you have been doing! 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 January topic is: “Design; steps to create a Beautiful Design” led by Tom Lohman
We will focus on design in this demonstration. We will first look at various sources to find inspiration. Next, we will learn how to create patterns and choose the best form and wood for the selected pattern. We will then investigate form and its constructability, along with tips to build challenging forms. Project size selection based on form, pattern, and constructability will be covered in addition to various styles of segmented wood turning and the design and build of selected feature rings. Finally, we will cover the use of computer-based design tools.
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
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