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Report of the meeting . 20th August 2026

We welcomed a number of new and budding members this evening. There were two events tonight. Pen making demonstrations and the Shield Competition.

The shield competition had entries from standardised pieces of oak given at a previous meeting.

Results : This was an incredibly close competition with all of the entries of the highest quality.

Novice: 1st: Lynn Holmes

Intermediate: 1st Barry Cumming 2nd Neil Farnham 2nd Sue Drew 4th Alan Smith 5th Marco Baglioni

Open: 1st Keith Hodgson 2nd John Ruickbie 3rd David Hobson

Novice Class
Intermediate Class
Open Class
All together now !

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Report on Meeting 2nd October 2025

Two things happened tonight.

1: Judging of the last round of the Shield Competition.

Judges hard at work.

There were a disappointing numbers of entries. ( I guess people preferred to look at real fruit) Some of which are shown below.

2 : Keith and Nick arranged some woodturners to make some decorations.

John Ruickbie making a hanging thing
Keith Brown making a person
Chris Lycett making forest elements
Mytilda Macdonald making another thing
Hands in pockets needed for watching
Tree number two
Don’ t put your hands in your pockets John.
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Report on Meeting 7th August 2025

This evenings theme was ” Plates” . The meeting coincided with the Black Isle show, which didnt make it easy to get to Munlochy. We managed to occupy 4 lathes with turners of differing skills, from Novice to Experienced. This meant that there was something for everyone, to both learn from and offer advice to.

Chris shows us how thin he could make a plate
Mytilda tackles a sizeable piece
Neil working on the base of his plate
Graeme steps in to fill a space
Something for everyone
Chris and Neil’s plates

Tonight’s meeting was also a round in the Shield competition, and judges allocated points to earring stands in the 3 categories: Novice, Intermediate and Open.

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Report on our meeting 03-04-2025 the first of our shield competitions for 2025.

In charge of competitions for the club is David Hobson, the subject matter for this competition was to make a money box, all 3 categories of members were tasked with the same remit. This was not as easy as it first appears the making of a money box using a lathe requires some considerable consideration, and there were precious few examples on line for you to copy, this was going to be very interesting to see exactly what the members would come up with.

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