Lake Superior Woodturners Meeting Details
Date WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024
Time 6 p.m. – 9 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!
6:00 Call to Order
President Report – Susan Van Loon Runnoe
Treasure Report – Paul Howard: Current balance, Income and Expenses
Old Business: Reminder – This is the last ‘summer-schedule 6 pm meeting’! September 14 we will return to our regular Saturday 9 a.m. meetings.
New Business (?)
Show & Tell – As always, we love to see what you’ve been turning. 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
Raffle: An ongoing item in our agenda is the 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 – Wood Finishes! We will see some different wood finishes and then discuss what we like, and what we don’t like about some of them. If you have finished projects with examples of your favorite finish, please bring in an example to share. Our format will be similar to our Show and Tell. Multiple finishes are welcome! Each person will be able to share an example, and if time permits, share a second.
Finish examples could be, but are not limited to the following:
· CA (Cyanoacrylate) Glues
· Ebonize
· Gloss Or Satin Spray Laquer
· Penetrating Danish Oil
· Friction Finishes Such As Hut Crystal Coat
· Carnauba Wax & Beal Buff
· Wipe-On Polyurethane
· Spray Or Brush On Polyurethane
· Milk Paint
· Bees Wax
· Sou Sugi Ban, Or Yakisugi (Burning)
· Walnut Oil,
· Mineral Oil
· Shellac
· Tung Oil
· Spar Varnish
What we hope to show is
· how the material looks before the application (liquid, paste, rattle can, bar, etc.)
· finished examples
· When to use and when to avoid (i.e. food contact, textured finishes)
· What is the shelf life, how should it be stored
· Pros and Cons
The 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 Whitake