Schedule for Current Season

NOTICE:

The following regulations are in place for in-person attendance:
- all attendees must be fully vaccinated by at least 2 weeks prior to the meeting.
- all attendees must wear masks at all times while in the meeting facility.
- maintain the 2 meter (6 feet) physical distance from other people.
- for the Instant Gallery, do not handle others' work, only your own. When called upon, bring your work to the camera to discuss it.

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Please check back here as we develop our schedule.

We have started in-person meetings again. Substantial restrictions by both the Province of Manitoba and Howden Community Centre are in place. (See above.)
The demo schedule is tentative depending on Covid factors.

The schedule of meeting dates for the 2022 - 2023 season is:
Date	Early Bird Special	Demo
September 8, 2022	Member registration	Turning a snap lid box
October 13	Sanding basics	Making your won tools
November 10 - postponed to November 17	Stabilizing wood with epoxy and alcohol	Methods of holding wood on the lathe
December 8	Making whistles and duck calls	Finishing with water based urethane
January 12, 2023	Prepping inserts for shaftless pepper mills	Making shaftless pepper mills
February 9	Handling grain direction	Working with epoxy resins
March 9	Turning a perfect ogee shape	Sharpening your tools
April 13	Set up balanced natural edge bowl	Fixing errors
May 11	Lathe care and maintenance	Turning a 2 piece hollow form
June 8	How to avoid and fix grain tear-out	Seeing the piece in the wood before you cut it