Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Our meeting on Thursday 4th August 2022 was all about Segmented Turning, the meeting was managed by Dave Line as a solo presentation. Dave brought along a big selection of items all made using this method, he also brought along some of the equipment he needed to do Segmented Turning, most of which he made himself.
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Start time 6.45pm
Our next meeting is on Thursday 4th August 2022, it’s being managed by Dave Line, this will be a solo affair Dave will be the only presenter, he is going to take you through some of the methods used in Segmented Turning , he will be bringing some of the equipment required to do Segmented Turning. The main thing Dave will be stressing is accuracy, working out your pattern then cutting the pieces required, how it’s assembled and how it’s then turned.
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Our latest training evening was on Thursday 28th July 2022, there were due to be 4 tutors along with 4 pupils, however one of the pupils failed to turn up leaving one of the tutors with nothing to do, there was some doubt about one of the pupils before the session started because he had indicated he might be late, we did give him the benefit of some time to turn up if he indeed was only going to be late, but he was a no show!
Continue reading “Report on our training evening 28-07-2022.”I took an impromptu video of this presentation by Alec and Errol about the options for woodturning finishes. They cover quite a lot of very useful information.
Unfortunately, the sound for the first 10 minutes or so has an annoying pinging noise (my phone) before I sorted it out for the rest of the video. All audio is captured by the phone, so please make some allowances to the quality as it varies quite a a lot with background noise, and various lathe and extractors running.
This is the associated post for the video
Part 2 is scheduled for the 29th September and a recording may or may not be added depending on the feedback this one gets…
Minutes from the meeting on 21st July 2022 are now available on the Club Minutes page
Our meeting on Thursday 21st July 2022 was organised by Geoff Potter, Geoff’s theme for the evening was making shallow bowls and platters, there were 5 turners involved using all 5 of the club lathes.
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Start time 6.45pm
Our next meeting is on Thursday 21st July 2022, it’s being organised by Geoff Potter, there should be all 5 lathes in operation and the subject matter for this meeting is making shallow bowls and platters.
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Our latest training evening was on Thursday 14th July 2022, there were to be 4 pupils and 4 tutors, however one of the pupils had to cancel and one of the tutors came down with Covid, this still left 3 and 3 and it was too late to organise any replacement pupils or tutors. We decided to go with what we have, the 3 tutors arrived as arranged but only 2 of the pupils turned up, John Ruickbie’s pupil failed to turn up, that left us with Errol Levings tutoring Liam Comfort, and me (Alec Mutch) tutoring Gareth Jones.
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Our meeting this week on Thursday 7th July 2022 was all about finishing materials and their use, the meeting was organised by Errol Levings and was to have 4 people doing presentations on different aspects of finishing. However the situation with Covid reduced this to only 2 people doing the presentations, Errol and myself. This meant that some of the presentation would now be carried forward to a meeting later in the year.
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Start time of 6.45pm.
Our meeting this week on Thursday 7th July 2022 is all about finishing methods and materials. This meeting has been arranged by Errol Levings and there will be 3 members taking part, it was originally intended to have 4 members doing the presentations but John Ruickbie had to call off, I will be taking on John’s contribution about the use of Oils as a finish in addition to my own contribution.
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