Lake Superior Woodturners
Meeting Notice
Meeting Date: Saturday March 9, 2024
Time: 9AM – Noon
Location: Jon’s Shop, 9 Kilner Bay Drive, Superior WI
Agenda
Coffee & chatter
9:00 Call to Order
Presidents Report – Susan Van Loon Runnoe: Introduction of new members and visitors
Treasure’s Report – Paul Howard: Current balance, Income and Expenses
Old Business
- Curling Rock Trophies
- Superior Craft School update
- Club Insurance
- Club needs
- New Business
- Shop Vac for Sale
- 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 it or what to turn it into.
- For this month we are collecting wooden eggs to put into a basket. Please bring a wooden egg you have turned!
Safety Minute: AAW Safety Recommendations
Osha: Rotating Parts, Flying Chips, and Kickbacks.
15 Safety Tips for Woodturners
Raffle: We have a great membership, and once again we are looking for help with raffle prizes. If you have something you could donate whether it’s a piece of wood, a tool you don’t use, or a turning you have done we would appreciate the donation. Depending upon the quantity received your donation may be saved for a future month’s raffle.
Program
Greg Whitaker will demonstrate using a sphere jig to:
- Turn a perfect sphere to a specific diameter
- Hollow a sphere to a uniform wall thickness
- Turn a small diameter sphere like a marble
Along the way, we will identify the Pros & Cons of using a sphere jig, identify important sphere jig specifications and what they mean then contrast this process with other common sphere turning techniques including freehand, octagon method, compression chuck, as well as using homemade sphere jig.
There are many ways to turn a sphere and all work. Your project’s specifications, available tools, and your skill level all play into the technique you will use to turn a sphere. This discussion is intended to increase your understanding of the sphere jig (not to sell you a sphere jig).
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MASKS ARE NOW OPTIONAL. HOWEVER, WE ASK THAT IF YOU ARE NO FEELING WELL TO NOT ATTEND.
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March 9th, 2024 club meeting pictures
The class of 2024 Curling trophies
Bill Penning, Jon Stephenson, Caleb Shadis, Bonnie McDermid, Ray Hyde, Greg Whitaker, Doug Runnoe, and Susan Van Loon Runnoe. Missing from the picture is Ray Hyde and Doug Runnoe.
February 2024 club meeting picture
Wig Stand Project
Sharon Rasmussen, from Ruth’s Free Wigs in Grand Rapids and Ray Hyde, from the Lake Superior Woodturners, exchange wig stands turned and donated by members of the wood turning club.
January 2024 club meeting picture
December 2023 club meeting picture
November 2023 club meeting picture
October 2023 Craft School Fall Festival
October 2023 club meeting pictures
Cornucopia Art Festival
Ray, Greg, Susan & Doug did demos at the Cornucopia Art Festival.
September 2023 Club Meeting Pictures
August 2023 Club Meeting Pictures
July 2023 Club Meeting Pictures
Dibber Sales: Greg & Sally Whitaker sold 17 in 2 hours @ the Duluth plant sale.
May 2023 club meeting pictures
April 2023 club meeting
March 2023 Platter Workshop
March 2023 meeting pictures
Club project, 2023 Curling Stone Trophies
February 2023 meeting pictures
January 2023 Meeting Pictures
December 2022 Meeting Pictures
September 2022 Meeting Pictures
June 2022 Meeting Pictures
May 2022 Club Meeting Pictures
April 2022 Meeting Pictures
Pictures from the March 2022 Meeting
Pictures from the February 2022 Meeting
Pictures from the November 2021 Meeting
Pictures from the October 2021 Meeting
Pictures from the March 2020 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.
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