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The evening comprised of 2 turners doing a joint demonstration. The first part of the evening was done by Ian George who turned a birdbox with lid and finial. This involved some deep hollowing and showed many skills to achieve the final result.

                   

The second part of the evening was Gerald Hubbard who created one of his signature makes, a clock based on a wooden sphere. Making spheres is always considered a difficult skill but Gerald explained the technique and made it look achievable. Maybe this will inspire us to have a go.

                   

The evening started with the Annual General Meeting where Mick Denton explained what has happened with the club over the lockdowns and brought the members up to date with our current status and aspirations. This information will be summarised and issued on the Club Notices page in due course.

There was a quick break for tea and biscuits which is something that was not allowed during COVID 19 restrictions, so this was a really nice step back to some sort of normality.

The remainder of the evening was taken up by a small demonstration by Richard Coleman and then Mick Denton which rounded the evening off really well.

The monthly competition could almost have been themed as there were a number of plates and platters on the table. All very nice to see.

The yearly prize of woodturner of the year was announced. Third place went to Bob Green, second place was Roger Gilbert and first place went to Dave Simms.

The evenings demonstration was done by Mick Denton making a long stemmed goblet. Unfortunately during the demonstration Mick felt unwell so closed down early.

The demonstration for the evening was by Adrian Finch who made three items. However, he played about with coloured wax and achieved some interesting finishes which proved to be aim so overall a very interesting and entertaining demonstration.

Richard Coleman provided the demonstration for the night with 2 bowls, one in elm and the other in spalted beech. 

Even though the elm blank blank was quite dry and caused Richard a few headaches the final result was a nice bowl with lovely grain pattern.

The competition table was well represented and there was a draw for 1st prize which was taken by Dave Simms with his birds on a limb and Roger Gilbert with a bowl.

Second place was a thin wall bowl by Bob Green.

Third place went to Geoff Warr for his purple heart box.

This evening was a hands on and was well represented. There were 2 lathes set up along with the bandsaw so there was plenty going on to keep us all amused. The 2 lathes were used continuously with the novices among us gaining experience and instruction, which is primarily what the evening was set up to do. This also allowed other members to start the process of sorting out our equipment and inventory, so overall the evening was a success.

The demonstrator for this evening was Geoff Warr who is a club member and he has done many events for us. His introduction confirmed that he would be doing a couple of off centre turning projects, the first being a tea light holder and the second a small ornamental styalised bird.

For the tea light holder the workpiece was held between centres and the offsets were 5mm and each was taken in turn so that he produced a column that resembled a crankshaft. he then turned the holder itself and then joined the 2 together.

The second project was held in the chuck and the offset created by moving the work piece at a slight angle. The head and neck were then turned and finished before doing the opposite offset. The body and base were then turned to a finish and the bird parted off. The beak was made from a bobbin blank by turning to a point. The 2 would then be glued together.

The February competition was also held at this meeting. Although the number of entries was less that normal the overall quality was high.

First place went to Richard Coleman with his spalted beech bowl.

Second place was a pair of styalised birds.

Third was another bowl and again this was by Richard Coleman

 

The evening demonstration was undertaken by one of our members who made a gavel and anvil. 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This demonstration showed many techniques for both spindle and faceplate orientation turning as well as an inlay which went into the strike part of the anvil. Overall this was an interesting and informative demonstration.

The start of another year and the demonstrator for the evening was Roger Gilbert. The evening was filled with 3 projects, two of which were intertwined with each other. Roger’s first offering was to make a circular picture frame from the section of a bowl blank that usually ends up as shavings. In this case he mounted the bowl blank as usual but instead of shaping the outside of the bowl he parted off a ring that could be rechucked to make the frame.

Roger then remounted the bowl and followed the usual processes for making a bowl. However, this one was a little different as it was a “boat bowl”. This is different from a standard bowl as the finished bowl is made by cutting the bowl in half then gluing it back together using the small flange on the top of the bowl. (Not that easy to explain, it was much easier to understand when you watch it being done.  

                                                         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The third project was a 2 part vase that included a glass tube that Roger won as part of the recent raffle.

The January competition was also run and the results were as follows

1st        Mick Denton with a multi lidded box   

 

 

 

 

 

2nd       Dave Simms with a Bertie Bassett Liquorice Alsort model 

 

 

 

 

 

Joint 3rd was Bob Green with a bottle light and Colin Humphries with a Laburnum goblet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The evening was intended as a social event with Christmas nibbles plus a bit of turning. The food table was well stocked with all of the usual low calorie items all of which were well received.

Mick Denton did the demonstration showing how 2 bowls can be created from one piece of Yew log. He showed the making of a standard bowl and then a natural edge bowl. The evenin g progressed really well and Mick even managed to make 2 bowls without going through the bottom of either of them. Amazing!!