Report on our meeting 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.

Our meeting on Thursday 3rd October 2024 was the last of our Shield Competitions for this year, it was organized by Nick Simpson and Rocking Bowls was the theme for this Competition. The Novice and Intermediate groups were required to make just one Rocking Bowl, the Open group had to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls.

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Our next meeting, 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 3rd October 2024 and it’s our last of our shield Competitions for this year. This competition is all about Rocking Bowls in all 3 categories, the Novice and the Intermediate categories have to make a single Rocking Bowl, the Open category have to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls, they can be any size as long as they have a rounded base.

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Report on our latest training day.

Our latest training day was on Thursday evening 12-09-2024.

All our training days are organized by Nick Simpson our training co-ordinator.

There were 5 trainees along with 5 tutors on all our lathes, 4 of them were on their 2nd training session with 1 person on their 1st session. The training is usually split into 4 sessions, 2 with faceplate or bowl work sessions and 2 spindle or between centres turning, with the pupil doing lots of practice between sessions, it’s normal to set them free from the tuition after they have had 4 sessions. Some of them may go on to receive advanced tuition at a later date, our training also deals with very specialised turning as well as what’s considered normal.

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Report on our meeting 22-08-2024 organized by Alec Mutch.

Our meeting on Thursday evening 22nd August 2024 was organized by Alec Mutch, this was a solo demonstration by myself on the theme of Off Centre or Multi Centre turning. As some of the equipment required to do this type of turning was not something that all turners would have as part of their kit I decided to do this demonstration on my own.

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