Woodturners of Southwest Missouri Shares Ilkiw's Danish Oil Recipe, Feb. 28 Meeting

The Woodturners of Southwest Missouri (WTSWMO) announced a Saturday, Feb. 28 meeting at the Darr Agricultural Center, 2401 S Kansas Expressway in Springfield, with social time at 9:00 a.m. and the meeting starting at 10:00 a.m. The club’s website also published practical material from January’s session, including a finish recipe and instructions tied to demonstrator Mike Ilkiw’s techniques.

WTSWMO’s recap of the January session is explicit: "January’s meeting was moved back one week, but it was definitely worth the wait. Mike Ilkiw demonstrated reshaping out of round dried bowls. During that process, questions came up about his superb finish, and Mike revealed that it is a finish you can make yourself. So, here is the recipe and instructions for use." That passage appears on the club site under a headline praising Ilkiw’s work and signals the club’s intent to share shop-tested finishing methods with members.

The club’s events calendar lists meeting dates through November, giving members a full spring and summer schedule: Feb 28, Mar 21, Apr 25, May 23, Jun 27, Jul 25, Aug 15, Sep 26, Oct 24, and Nov 28. The WTSWMO site also provides navigation for member services - it instructs visitors to "Click the 'Find a Mentor' link in the menu ribbon above" for mentoring connections and maintains headers for Turning Resources, Members Websites, and Woodturning Clubs.

Volunteer coordination and workshop care are front of mind in the club posting. WTSWMO asks the community to support meeting operations with an explicit plea: "Join us in thanking our volunteers who provide set-up, take-down, and clean-up assistance at meetings and the clubhouse. If this is not you, please consider helping as many hands make light work. #GetInvolved" That call appears alongside a practical materials note about blank preservation; the site reproduces Anchorseal guidance: "Sealing your logs and blanks with Anchorseal helps to preserve your precious wood turning blanks by slowing moisture loss, providing time for internal stresses to be released more slowly thus limiting cracking and checking."

A separate club listing in the source material makes clear that multiple chapters meet on the same calendar day. Channel Islands Woodturners in Ventura, California, lists its Feb. 28 meeting at Cabrillo Middle School Woodshop, 1426 E Santa Clara Street, with a 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific business session and a 10:00–12:00 noon Pacific demo by Michael Horwitz titled "How to Carve a Feather." Channel Islands’ page also challenges members to "Bring something turned from a small scrap of wood – beads, podlets, animals, mushrooms, hat, figures, etc."

WTSWMO’s posting ties a practical finishing recipe to a hands-on demo and a full season of meetings; the club’s calendar and published shop content offer members both technique follow-up and routine meeting logistics for the year ahead.