Lake Superior Woodturning July 8, 2026 Meeting Notice

Lake Superior Woodturners

MEETING DETAILS

Summer Schedule:

Date Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Time 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

SHOP LOCATION: THE DORFMAN CO. BUILDING

1314 OGDEN AVE, SUPERIOR, WI 54880

AGENDA

When you get to the meeting, please sign in so we know who is attending, and wear a name badge to help those who are not familiar with who we are put names to our faces.

Half-hour before the meeting: Meeting set-up (Chairs & Lathe) plus coffee & chatter!

6:00 CALL TO ORDER

HOST

TREATS: Jon Stephenson

PRESIDENT REPORT – Susan J Van Loon Runnoe

TREASURE REPORT – Current balance, Income and Expenses (Susan)

Open Treasurer Position

OLD BUSINESS:

Mentoring: Whether you are interested in finding a mentor to help you with a particular woodturning skill, or if you are experienced and wouldn’t mind sharing your skills with others, we want to know. We are trying to match individuals to expand our talents!
Kerry Sopoli: Bowling Pin Challenge
Tom Lohman Segmented Workshop
Wig Stands—always looking for more donations
Tool / Wood Swap coming in September!

NEW BUSINESS:

SHOW & TELL – This month’s theme is Texturing & embellishing.If you have a wood-turned piece that you’ve added texture, embellishing, color … we would love to see it! But, as always, we love to see anything you’ve been turning, so bring in your turnings and show what you have been up to. When you show your pieces 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 – Best practices, what to do and what not to do. (Doug Runnoe)

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
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This month we’ve asked Doug Runnoe to talk about Texturing.

We’ll talk about why and when to add texture, where to go for ideas, how and why to use story boards to try out your ideas, and then he’ll discuss some finishing tips. Doug will bring in a few rotary power tools and show the differences. He’ll have carbide, diamond, and stone bits and will talk about what each type is best used for. You’ll learn what destroys bits and how to prevent wasting money destroying your tools.

If you have used a rotary “power carving” tool please consider bringing it in to show, talk about what you like, and maybe what you dislike about your particular tool. Members will get a chance to try their hand at power carving, ands make a story board of your own after the meeting.

Below images are from various artists and are included for examples and discussion.