12 November 2022 Meeting and Demo

 The Hiawatha Woodturner's Club meet at the Saint Ignace High School wood shop on 12 November 2022 with Show & Tell, Bring Backs and a Demonstration by Steve Promo.  

 The following were Show & Tell items.

 

A bow that looks like a basket with a brass top with a fly on it.  

 

Left a box of box elder with maple lid.   Right a box of zebra wood with a maple lid.

 

Top: A box turned on a cedar post with lid on.  Below with lid off.

 

A large waste basket.  

 

 To cut disks from leather or cardboard you take a hole cutter and grind the teeth off and sharpen the edges.   Remove the center drill and you can cut disks.

Bring Back items are shown below.     

A lot of raffle tickets were sold to increase chances of getting the bowl in the center.   In back is a slab of hard wood, four sections of 4x4 ash,  behind the bowl is a half cut tree fork with feathering grain.   Front is section of a tree with a small section of burl, then a small bowl.  

Tom Stawiarski had the winning ticket that allowed him to claim the bowl as his prize.  Good choice Tom. 

Shop Demonstration.

Steve promo was contracted to turn 150 spindles for a hotel on Mackinac Island.  In the video he talks about his approach to turning the spindles and then demonstrates how to turn a wood splitter handle.  

Video link:  https://youtu.be/vUSHbiaT2U0 

Thanks Steve for putting this together for the club.