12 October 2024 Club Meeting

The members and guest meet at the St Ignace High School Wood shop with Show & Tell items and Bring Back items for auction and for a discussion/presentation by Steve Promo on how to make a Steady Rest. Here are some of the Show & Tell items.

Archie made the three on the left.  Sheila made the Maple bowl on right.

All three of Archie's bowl, yellow hart left and two purple hart centered were finished by polishing.   Sheila's Curly Maple bowl was turned after one day of instructions and also polished.  

Two bowls brought bought in.  Left is segmented wood turned.  Right item has high light rings on the outer edge.  

A dark wood bowl with an unique lid.  

Jim Rutledge made the bowl on the upper left with a copper bottom which is sewn on.  Top right has leaves carved into it and the dark area is hand burned to add color and texture.   The small center item has artificial sinew sewn on the top to make the bowl distinctive along with side directions.  The large platter was turned and had large sections of pulpy wood and then taken and hardened with resin under vacuum.  Steve Promo's bowl lower left is thing and he gave it a dark upper edge for a stunning contrast.

There were several items brought in for the auction.  

In addition to the auction items Steve Promo brought in two boxes of wood blanks to be given away.  Thanks Steve.

Two boxes of wood like this for free.  Nice.

After the drawing and Show & Tell discussions Steve gave a talk on how to make a steady rest.

One of Steve's steady rest shown at the September meeting.

First is the video of Steve's presentation which will be followed by pictures showing the steps taken.  

Here are the pictures showing the step Steve explained.

After the presentation Steve talked about our 9 November 2024 meeting where he will demo making a laser mount for the boring bar.  Here is a short discussion on the subject.