Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Our latest meeting was on Thursday 29th September 2022, it was Finishing part 2, a follow on from a meeting we held in July with Finishing part 1. This meeting was managed by Nick Simpson where he showed and explained some of his alternative finishes, taking things away from what would be considered normal finishes.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 29th September 2022, this is the follow on from the meeting on Finishing we did in July of this year. The main part of this meeting will be managed by Nick Simpson and possibly a small part from me. However the thrust of Nick’s presentation will be on various other ways to create a finish.
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Our meeting this week was all about making wooden Goblets, it was organised by Errol Levings as a solo demonstration on how to make a Goblet. Wooden Goblets is a speciality for Errol and he has demonstrated how to make them in the past, with the number of new members being high it was felt it was time to repeat some of the demonstrations we had done in the past.
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Our latest training day was on the 8th September 2022 managed by Nick Simpson, there were 3 pairings involved, Errol Levings was tutoring Liam Comfort on his 2nd lesson, spindle work, Alec Mutch was tutoring Gareth Jones on his 3rd lesson also spindle work. Both were sent home with pieces to practice on and asked to return with these pieces worked at their next lesson. The final pairing was Nick Simpson showing Alan Ross how to sharpen his tools, in particular using the Pro Edge system.
Our next club meeting is on Thursday 15th September 2022, how to make a wooden goblet.
Start time 6.45pm.
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Our latest meeting was held on Thursday 1st September 2022, it was managed by David Hobson and David’s theme for the meeting was making wooden fruits. He had all 5 lathes working and all making some kind of wooden fruit, those demonstrating were David Hobson, David Ross, John Ruickbie, Dave Line and brought in at the last minute Liam Comfort who replaced his dad who was otherwise engaged.
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Just a short report on our latest training day on Thursday 25th August 2022, Nick Simpson our training manager had organised for only 2 trainees and 2 tutors being involved in this training day, all the rest of the tutors got an evening off. Those involved were Catrin Anderson (pupil) being mentored by John Ruickbie, and Ewan Gunn (pupil) being mentored by David Hobson. A report from John Ruickbie the next day told us the training session went very well, Catrin and John were making the base for a candlestick and Ewan and David were making a shallow bowl. This was Catrin’s last training session before John set her free to practice, it was Ewan’s 1st session with David and he would have 3 more sessions.
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Our meeting this week on Thursday 18th August 2022 was organized by Nick Simpson, Nick’s plan was to have 3 teams of 3 members working from a 2D plan into a 3D turned item, the specific brief from Nick was to make an Egg, an Egg Cup and a Shallow plate.
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Start time 6.45pm
Our meeting this week on Thursday 18th August 2022 is being organised by Nick Simpson and is a bit different to any meeting we have held before, Nick’s idea is to have 3 teams of 3 turners working on 3 lathes all making the same 3 items.
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Our latest training meeting happened on Thursday evening 11th August 2022.
There were 4 pupils with 4 tutors for this training session, most of the pupils were on their 2nd or 3rd training courses, we give them all 4 courses, 2 doing bowl work and 2 doing spindle work, they are then given time to practice and only after that time are any ongoing problems dealt with, this would be done by contacting our training manager Nick Simpson and getting a further training session to deal with specific problems the pupil may encounter, Nick would then arrange for a tutor who is best suited to deal with the problem and set up a further training session.
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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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