Highland Woodturners Club (Scottish Charity SC053651)
Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
On a beautiful summers evening in early spring(!), members cam to show some of their work, offer guidance and ask for advice on this ” Show and Tell ” evening.
Advice was offered as to tools that could be adapted and used for particular things such as remounting, and carving close concentric rings. In the sprit of lessons learned with Stewart Furini, Alec showed us another colour/texture medium set. Here are a small number of photographs of some of the things we had a look at.
Saturday April 25th saw us hosting Stewart to demonstrate some of the secrets he uses to colour and texture pieces of woodturning. We also enjoyed a lunch laid on by Richard Comfort. The day passed very quickly with fascinating demonstrations and Stewart’s easy going approach and sharp humour. We have no intention of explaining techniques here, but trust that the following images provide reminders for those who attended, and inspiration for those who did not. Also have a look at Stewarts website. Stewart Furini Woodturning – Home
Alec led us through some of the tools and skills needed to make a lamp.
In this session he did little turning , and more demonstration and hints and tips on things such as thread cutting.
Once the parts have been created the centre needs hollowing. Alec demonstrated this with a specialist hollow centring bit and an auger.
Neil led us in some “hands on” techniques of colouring.
I think many of us were surprised that a fairly boring looking coloured lump of wood ended up looking so good when Alec turned the centres out.
It was also the first Shield competition of the year. Results as follows.
Novice: 1st: Lyn Holmes, 2nd : Mytilda Rattray, 3rd: Bob Bull
Intermediate : 1st: Susan Drew, 2nd: Barry Cumming, 3rd: Mario Baglioni
Open: 1st: Keith Hodgson, 2nd: Nick Simpson, 3rd: David Hobson
Mark Sutton led an evening on various finishing techniques he uses. This included the use of texturing tools, paints of various colours that can be blended for different effects, and other media such as beads. It was a full evening, with many tips and ideas, and we are grateful to Mark for sharing with us.
A well attended evening organised by our Chair, Nick Simpson, on the topic of platters. Nick told us about the techniques needed for making platters, including sacrificial chucking, multiple centre chucking, etc.
The club members took lathes to demonstrate aspects of platter making
Tonight saw a gathering of people to see what our turners for the evening chose to make. We had a live edge bowl from Marco, some rings from Barry, a platter from Alan and a bowl form Mytilda. As usual Bob forgot to take Photographs for most of the meeting.
In our first meeting since Christmas ( the last meeting cancelled due to the weather) David Ross took us through ways of hollowing different types of vessel.
David showed us a variety of tools he has used over the years and included a long reach tool he had fabricated himself. He particularly likes the Hope Easy hollowing system though that obviously involves a significant investment.
David had prepared for us a a number of diagrams showing why particular directions of hollowing left better finishes than others, and also showed us various carbide tips which worked well for him.
In a change to the original programme due to ill health of our original presenter, and also that of a replacement presenter, our Chair set a challenge. Participants were given two 2″x2″x10″ pieces of wood, and asked to make one thing at home, and then to make another of the same thing during the evening. We ended up with some small vases, some Christmas decorations and a scoop. As usual the turners had different amounts of experience.
The theme this evening was chosen by Alan Smith, who also chose the turners. The Theme was Goblets, and the turners varied from complete beginners to the most experienced. Different techniques were shown and lessons learned
Neil is in control !
Alec demonstrated making very thin pieces using freshly cut Alder and a light bulb inside the piece.
