Badger Wood Turners

On June 2nd we had our last meeting before the summer break. We had some very interesting items that members brought in for the Show and Tell. They range from Humming Bird to wood fishing wire sculpture to little people and finally an Ant.
Enjoy and get inspired.

Thanks to the people who follow us on FaceBook. I thought you might like to know the breakdown of who you are. FaceBook does a little data collection and I attached a breakdown from there.
We hope that by sharing our club activities you can get ideas and inspiration to do woodturning that you enjoy.
If there is something that you would like us to include, just let us know.
We also have a web page that is broken down into outside people just visiting and members. Our dues are only $30.00 per year and all of our meeting are streamed on Zoom to members and they have access to all of our past demos.
The web site is badgerwoodturners.org.
Happy Turning

The Challenge last month was make a top from the demonstration by Rodney Bethel. He showed and critiqued all of the tops that members brought in. There were all types including some with pewter rims to add weight, all colored different colors and one full of hole and when spun you could see the area underneath.
Thanks for all that brought them in. This is what the demos are for. To have members follow the demo and learn a new skill to do what was done in the demo and produce your own.

This is part 2 of the program from last months meeting. This mentoring program has been around from 2012. Last year West High school remodeled parts of the school and decided that the Woodturning program was successful enough that it needed its own area. Some of the slides will show the area and 4 of the students presented some of their creations with the help of a dedicated group of Badger Woodturners mentors that teach 5 classes a day, 5 days a week. Learn more.

This last meeting we had featured the mentoring programs that are run by members of the club. I will highlight the Jefferson program first. They meet in the evenings to Home schooled and public school kids away from the school. One home school student, Josheph and his mother, Becky showed us some of the projects accomplished at the Jefferson mentoring program.

We had a full house at the meeting May 5th with over 50 people attending in person and another bunch on Zoom.
It was our annual recognition of the talent from the mentoring program at West High School (they teach 5 classes a day, 5 days a week.). The other program is in Jefferson which and teaches couple of evenings to at home students and others that are interested. More on them in the next posting.
This is the items that the members brought in for Show and Tell.
Enjoy.

Last month, April 7th for the challenge members brought in their bowls. Alex chose a number to critique for the group on the quality, design, shape and areas that made them stand out from the others. There were some great bowls displayed.

Badger Woodturners' estate sale:

Loren Hatleburg's wood shop and high quality fishing equipment sale.

The club is hosting a 2 day sale of Loren's shop.

This includes shop tools, hand tools, work benches, file cabinets and art supplies. A complete functional work shop sale. Plus fishing equipment.

Friday May 8th 8:00 to 3:00

Saturday May 9th 8:00 to 3:00

Half price Sat. after 1:00 half price

5117 Caton Lane

Waunakee, WI

TOOLS FOR ALL