Month: January 2023

The evenings entertainment was a demonstration by Adrian Finch. The subject was a little out of the ordinary in that it was a replica of a cordless drill complete with drill bit.

This was turned as 3 pieces of spindle turning with the most of the shaping done on the body section. The drill bit required some additional marking out shaping and the final result was very convincing.  

           

The evening ended with Roger Giibert making a couple of announcements, the first being that the AGM date has been set  at 3rd May 2023. The second was that Woodworks show is coming up in May (see the Non Club Events page) and we will be requiring pieces of work for the exhibition stand, about 4 pieces from each person would more than suffice. We would also like people to volunteer for the competition tasks over the 2 days, so if anyone is interested let Roger know.

The first club evening of 2023 saw Geoff Warr providing the entertainment. His project was an ornamental cat assembled from several turned pieces. The body and head were created as spindle turned items providing the sinuous body shape and the oval head.

The ears were then created and sanded to achieve the final shape. The nose was turned and a cross hole drilled so that the whiskers could be threaded through and trapped when the nose was assembled on the head. The tail was made on a scroll saw and then sanded to a round cross section before fitting to the body with 2 bamboo pins to hold it.

The result was very cute and the demonstration showed that your imagination can produce some very interesting work.

To fill in the last half hour Geoff turned the makings of a femisphere which entailed using a 2 part blank joined by a paper joint. It was then turned to a 2 ended cone and the paper joint split. The 2 halves were to be rotated by 90 degrees to create the interesting shape. If you understood that then I didn’t explain it right. You needed to be there to see it.

The competition table seemed to be dominated by bowls of various shapes and sizes.

3rd Place went to Peter Stanton with his bowl.

2nd place went to Ken Garratt with his oak bowl with a simple pyrography embellishment. 

1st place was Roger Gilbert with his Lignum Vitae salt and pepper pots (the only non bowl items on show).