Our June meeting was held Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 at 7:00 PM at the Peters Valley Wood Studio on Thunder Mountain Road. This meeting had been posponed from the previous week due to the closing of Peters Valley caused by the extremely poor air quality arising from the forest fires in Quebec.
Attendees: Steve Ackmann, Rick Wortman, Carl Beaulieu, Joe Kopec, Dave Robinson, Jim Cerra, Scott Hendricks and Ed Nikles
Presidents Report: We decided on an outline for topics for the Beth Ireland demonstration from a list suggested by Beth herself. Topic will lean toward offset turning with Rick discussing the specifics with Beth. Additionally, Rick will talk with Matt Monaco to decide on a topic for his demo.
We also spoke about the Art in the Park event at Peters Valley on Sunday from 11Am to 4 PM on May 28th, 2023 . We will have a table and a lathe to do turning demonstrations. We will coordinate our participants and demonstrators prior to the event, the goal is to have several members to show our items and to do demonstrations at the lathe.
Treasurer’s Report: Rick Wortman reported that our bank balance is the same as last month’s.
Show and Tell:
Ed Nikles showed a Walnut Bowl, a live edge Walnut Bowl, a cherry bowl with a decorated rim, and round boxes
Joe Kopec showed a Butternut Platter, a Butternut Bowl, and a pagoda box.
Dave Robinson showed Pens, a razor and a bottle opener
Scott Hendricks showed a deep cherry bowl
Carl Beaulieu showed an Ash live edge bowl
Rick Wortman showed a (maple) walking stick he discovered on a walk through the woods and a Butternut bowl.
Steve Ackmann showed a Pepper Mill, a Hickory live edge bowl, a Black Locust bud vase, and a cherry bowl.
After show and tell, Rick Wortman demonstrated turning a Platter from a 12″ cherry blank
In light of Rick’s demonstration, next month’s turning challenge will be to turn a platter
After the platter turning demonstration, the meeting adjourned at around 9:30PM
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