12 September 2026 Club Meeting

 The met at the St Ignace High School wood shop for the first time this year.   The shops have been remodeled.  The metal shop was transformed into an area where students can build large out buildings and thereby learning construction skills.   We set up in the woodshop with many show and tell items as well as some bring backs for the raffle.  

 Here are some pictures of the show and tell items members made.  

There were quite a few show and tell items of many different types.  

 

This vase was made from a burl and has many natural openings created by the tree.

Two platters were made with an interesting design cut into the inside lip of the platter,  Behind the platters are two cell phone horns to direct and improve the sound from you cell phone.  When placed on their sides the horns have a slot for you cell phone to set in so the sound from the phones bottom speakers are directed out.  This was tested during the meeting and greatly improved the music sound from the phone.

Gary Weirmiller brought in some items he made many years ago.   Four bells and a box with a hole in the top.   Gary said he made it in two pieces and glued them together.   

Archie Patterson made three hollow balls.  The light one, back left, made from oak, did not come out as spherical as he wanted so he made two more from aromatic cedar and developing a method to get them more spherical in shape.

Here are two beautiful platters.  Not the one on the right was made from a crotch and has some of the feathering grain of the crotch wood.   Well done.

There was a variety of bring back items.

This is a round section of maple.

 

This is a round section of Hemlock.

Here are two sections of Apple wood.

These are two section of burl wood.  

This is an old pressure cooker that can be turned into a pressure pot to cure resin.
 

 Jim Rutledge was kind enough to share some of his knowledge on wood burning that he uses in much of his carving.   Here is his presentation.

 Steve Promo also presented how to turn spindles.  He has a current project to turn several hundred spindles for a hotel on Mackinac Island.    Here is his presentation.  

 

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