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Rudy Lopez has left the building

A big thank you to all who attended the demonstration Saturday, November 9th at the Library Center and the “hands-on” workshop at the Good Samaritan Boys Ranch Sunday and Monday, November 10th and 11th. Our guest turner was Rudy Lopez from Tampa, … Continue reading

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Picture This!

Our July 27th meeting we had a great turn out and we enjoyed a great presentation on documenting aka photographing your work. Nathan Falter, our guest speaker and co-owner of Springfield Pottery, spent the morning explaining how to setup and … Continue reading

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Woodturner’s are TOPS!!!

  In preparation for the upcoming Ozark Empire Fair, Karen Kathka asked me to teach her to turn tops.  Since we will be offering these tops at our booth in return for donations to the Breast Cancer Foundation of the … Continue reading

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Color Junes Demo Finished and Polished

Les Casteel did a fantastic job of demonstrating for us “Coloring, Finishing & Buffing.” His presentation with his PowerPoint slides gave us a LOT of great detailed information! The Les Casteel “7 Rules of Sanding” was a good discussion about … Continue reading

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June 2013 Meeting

Our regular monthly meeting will be June 22nd at the Library Center at 4653 S. Campbell. As we always do, we’ll start to gather at 9:30am and get the official meeting started at 10am. We will be discussing the Ozark Empire Fair scheduling … Continue reading

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Club Picnic 2013

The club meet on a B-E-A-Utiful Saturday in June this year for a great picnic at Springfield Lake.  We setup 6 lathes and got ready to turn! With 56 members in attendance we had great food with the club providing … Continue reading

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May 2013 Club Meeting

Our regular monthly meeting will be May 25th at the Library Center at 4653 S. Campbell. As we always do, we’ll start to gather at 9:30am and get the official meeting started at 10am. As always, we’ll have the raffle, library, coop and … Continue reading

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Shop Class in Nixa, MO

On Monday, April 15th, David Van Giesen and Ben Alexander were invited to Nixa High School to Demo “roughing out a bowl”, by instructor Mark Colburn.  Mark is a club member of WTOSWMO and a teacher at Nixa High School.  His woodworking class has had some lathe experience … Continue reading

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Helen’s got a whole NEW Lathe!

On Thursday, January 17th, Helen got her new 1.5 HP Jet 1642 lathe! So we had a lathe raising party! Larry Randolph, Larry Ludke, David Van Giesen, Ben Alexander, Helen and Dan worked together to set the lathe up in … Continue reading

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Susan’s Great Turnout!

April 8th was an exciting day for Susan Dollar, her new Jet 1642 was delivered! Larry Ludke, Ryan Ludke, David Van Giesen, Ben & Char Alexander all converged on Susan’s house to set up the lathe.  Susan is “building” a shop inside her … Continue reading

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