2025 May Meeting Challenge Info

Taking inspiration from Dale Dennison’s resin and koa demonstration at our March meeting, your challenge for May’s meeting is “resin and wood”. You must use BOTH resin and wood in your turning. As an alternative to resin, you may use acrylic paint instead, meaning your wood piece qualifies if it is painted with acrylic as well.

Put on your thinking caps!

Mahalo!

January Meeting Challenge

“At our last meeting, Luther Bjornsen shared information on how to make wood translucent, in particular for lampshades. Fittingly, the challenge for the next meeting is to make an item with the word “light” in mind. Let your imagination rule in determining how you will apply the term “light”. It could be the weight of your piece, the translucency of it or however you decide the word applies. Just be sure it fits within a 10” cube. “

November Meeting Challenge

Honolulu Woodturners was treated to a wonderful demonstration by Aaron Hammer at our September meeting. The gifted turner captured our attention! Rob Hale mused that when he thinks of Aaron, he thinks of his signature massive calabash bowls. The next meeting’s challenge is very appropriately, a calabash! Give it a try gang! Just be sure it’s not massive. It must fit within a 10” cube.

July Meeting Challenge

Meeting Challenge For July’s meeting we challenge you to turn an urn. Minimum size requirement: It must at least fit a hummingbird (it’s remains – not a live one!). There is no maximum size limit as we trust that our members will exercise good judgment and restraint (we hope!).

March Meeting Challenge Info

March meeting’s challenge rings hollow! At the January meeting, Jon Ogata and Kevin Lui demonstrated two hollowing systems. The March challenge is to create a hollow form. Don’t worry about getting any special equipment to accomplish this! As long as the depth of your hole exceeds the diameter of the opening you qualify. That means items like bud vases are fine. Just be sure it fits in a 10” cube. See you in March!