10 May 2025 Club Meeting

 The club met at the St Ignace High School with a large number of bring backs for the auction and many show and tell items.  

Here are the Bring Backs that were given away during the meeting to the lucky wining ticket.  Each ticket cost one dollar ($1.00).

Two slabs of bloodwood and three cuts of aromatic red cedar and even some finished items were part of the bring backs.

 

 

The finished bowl on the left and the hunk of wood were also part of the bring backs that some lucky members took home.  The other items were part of the show and tell session of the meeting.

The large hollow form was purchased by Steve from his mentor and both the inside and the outside are very smooth without sanding.  A testament to his mentors skill.  The green bowl is an example of Steve's double dyeing and is beautiful. 

Here are some example of a member's spalted wood work along with a beautiful box with a walnut lid. 

 

This is another example of wood dyeing to bring out the end grain of the wood.  A black dye is applied tot he wood and soaks into the end grain and a light sanding will remove some of the side grain color but the end grain color is deep into the end grain.

More member wonderful work.  A natural edge bowl with a natural edge lid with a critter on it.  Very striking eye catching.

Steve wrote on the board information about the next four meetings.  In September the remodeled shop at the high school should be available for us to meet in again.

Out in the shop Archie Patterson demonstrated the process of creating a buffed finish on hard wood using several buffing wheels to obtain different degrees of finish.  This process can be applied to wood with a hard finish applied to b

 

During the meeting Steve talked about the double dye process of curly maple to  bring out the end grain of the wood.  Here is his talk followed by his demo. 

Thanks to Steve Promo for another great and informative demonstration.