Author: Alec Mutch

Start time 6.45pm

Our next meeting is on Thursday 20th July 2023, it has been organized by Geoff Potter and Geoff’s theme for the meeting is working with Natural Edges. Natural Edges covers a whole host of different options, it could be leaving the bark on in certain places on a Bowl or on a spindle turned item such as a Candlestick or a Mushroom, it could be using a Burr and leaving some of the spikey profile uppermost, you could use a “Y” piece of wood to create an interesting shape or even turn a piece of wood in end grain, again creating a very different shape. Geoff will have all 5 lathes in use.

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Our meeting on Thursday 6th July 2023 was organized by Alan Smith, Alan had arranged for 3 turners plus himself to do a demonstration on making Shallow Bowls or Plates.

However we had a couple of last minute cancellations from the turners scheduled to do the demonstrations, this left us very short of demonstrators with Alan and only one other turner Susan Drew, who arrived prepared to do their demonstrations.

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Start time 6-45pm

Our next meeting is on Thursday 6th July 2023, it’s being organized by Alan Smith, and Alan’s theme for the meeting is to make Shallow Wooden Plates or Bowls, he has arranged for all 5 of the club lathes to be in use, manned by himself and 4 other club members.

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Our meeting on Thursday 22nd June 2023 was a solo demonstration by John Ruickbie, John’s subject for the demonstration was to show the members an example of Open Segmented Turning and to go on to demonstrate how it was made. Due to the complexity of this type of turning John had to do a lot of the preparatory work at home and explain the procedure and the equipment required to make this type of turning.

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Our next meeting is on Thursday 22nd June 2024 it has an earlier start time of 6.30pm, this is to allow us to put forward some Health & Safety advice on the safe use of Fire Extinguishers, Joe Webster will do a short summary on using a Fire Extinguisher, which and when to use etc. this short presentation should last no more than 15 minutes but will give you some vital information on the use of a Fire Extinguisher.

Normal meeting will start at approximately 6.50pm.

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Our meeting on Thursday 8th June 2023 was another of our Showtime meetings, this meeting was organized by Susan Drew with myself being compere for the evening. It was well supported as usual although the turnout of our members was a little light, possibly down to the very nice weather we are having at the time.

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Our meeting on Thursday 8th June 2023 is another of our Showtime meetings, this meeting has been organized by Susan Drew with myself being the compere for the evening.

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Our meeting on the 11th May 2023 was organized by David Hobson he had arranged for Australian woodturner Jim Cameron to give the members a presentation on woodturning in Australia and also to do a slide show of some of his work along with some other work by Australian woodturners. Jim’s presentation was to last about an hour but such was the interest from our members that Jim’s presentation lasted for more than the time allocated which was fine with everyone. He gave a very comprehensive report on how woodturning got going in Western Australia and the amount of interest that it now receives, culminating in there now being 12 individual clubs with a membership in total of some 550 members, in the area of Western Australia.

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