New Mexico Woodturners

Fellow turners,

The board of directors is now back up to full strength, and the work towards offering additional educational services is back to full swing.

The membership survey continues. We currently have 48 responses to the membership survey as of this writing (4/20/2025). This means we only collected 9 additional responses since last month’s report. With 154 active members, we are at 31% responding. Of our active members, 75 to 80% typically open emails from the club. So, if everyone who knows of the survey responds, we should get between 120 and 130 responses. We have a long way to go!

PLEASE take a few minutes to complete the survey. You can use the link at the beginning of the previous paragraph and invest 5 to 10 minutes to help direct your club. Your voice matters. We have already implemented one suggestion submitted in a survey response and have set the topic for this year’s training class based on survey responses. Details are being worked out; a curriculum will be announced soon (as well as the cost).

More volunteers are needed to help with the library educational exhibits. We need people who can coordinate with personnel from the various library branches, (potentially) a person to build a display case that is agreeable to each involved branch, and people to design and construct the various educational displays. When thinking about these displays, think less like a collection of pieces turned by members of the club, and more like a formal museum display that communicates how a piece is completed.

Please plan on joining us at the May meeting at which Scott Kershaw will be back to present part two of his Tree-2-Bowl demonstration. In part 1 he produced a rough bowl to facilitate drying, whereas part 2 will produce a completed bowl. And this will be completed without the need for Hy’s karate chops.

See you there,

Mark

President NMWT