Blue Ridge Woodturners to showcase epoxy-enhanced bowl at June meeting
Louise Butler gave Blue Ridge Woodturners a stained-glass-style bowl demo at the club’s new Webster Road home on June 27.
Louise Butler gave Blue Ridge Woodturners an epoxy-enhanced bowl demo Saturday, June 27, at the club’s new meeting site on 2941 Webster Road in Blue Ridge. The afternoon session ran from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and centered on a bowl with epoxy in the bottom, a design the club described as having a stained-glass look.
That made the program especially useful for turners who want more than a decorative flourish. An epoxy bottom can stabilize a void, cover a defect, or create a strong visual center, and Butler’s piece promised to show how resin can change both the look and the function of a bowl without taking over the form. Blue Ridge Woodturners, a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners serving the Greater Roanoke and New River Valley regions of southwestern Virginia, has built its program around exactly that kind of practical instruction.
The move to the new location added another layer to the meeting. Blue Ridge Woodturners said its new home is Veritas Collective School, entrance #3, the former Colonial Elementary School at 2941 Webster Road, Blue Ridge, Virginia 24064. The club normally meets on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7 p.m., so the Saturday afternoon format marked a break from its regular schedule.
Butler brought the kind of background that fits a hands-on club crowd. Guilford Technical Community College described H. Louise Butler as a woodworker, woodturner, stained-glass artist and educator who has been woodworking for more than 45 years. Our State identified her as a fourth-generation woodworker from Reidsville, North Carolina, and said she was 65 when that profile was published. The same profile noted that she planned to open her Reidsville shop early in 2026, underscoring how central teaching and craft preservation have been to her work.
Blue Ridge Woodturners has leaned on that same practical streak before, with a February 2023 inlay bowls demo, a 2019 salt-and-pepper grinders presentation and a 2018 sharpening workshop. The Butler bowl demo fit right into that pattern, giving members a chance to see where epoxy belongs in the process and where it can ruin a form if the balance is off.
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