Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
I have been approached by one of our members who is looking to add to his equipment, his name is Paul Hibberd, a recent member to our club. Paul is after a decent sized bandsaw and a better sharpening system, he is also interested in getting a spare chuck for his Nova Comet Lathe, and a couple more bowl gouges.
If you happen to have any suitable kit that you are looking to sell, please contact Paul direct, his email address is, pauljhibberd@gmail.com
Our meeting on Thursday 8th December 2022 was to be the last meeting in 2022, it was also our Christmas competition and Grand Prize Raffle Draw.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on the 8th December 2022, it’s the start of our competitions again after a long period of having no competitions due to the pandemic. Our last competition held at our club was at the Christmas meeting of 2019.
Continue reading “Our next meeting 8-12-2022 Christmas Competition and grand raffle draw.”The minutes from the committee meeting on the 10th November 2022 are now available in the club minutes and documents page
Our meeting on Thursday 24th November was a tribute to our late treasurer Cliff Sim who died on the 5th September 2022. Cliff had been our treasurer for many years and was very well respected for everything that he did for the club. He was also very much involved with other clubs and organizations and treasurer to more than just our club. His death was very unexpected and he will be sadly missed not only by our club but also from the wider community.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 24-11-2022 A tribute to Cliff Sim.”Start time 6.45pm.
Our meeting this week is a memorial to our late treasurer Cliff Sim who died on the 5th September 2022.
Cliff was our treasurer for many years and was held in the highest regard by everyone in our club, his book keeping was second to none keeping a close track of all revenue and expenses, he updated our club committee on the financial situation at every committee meeting and gave a full audited account at our AGM meetings.
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Our meeting on Thursday 10th November 2022 was organised and managed by Peter Lawrence, Peter had arranged for Roddy Ross a local professional chainsaw operator to give us a talk and demonstration on all aspects of chainsaw use, including the use of safety gear.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 10th November 2022, it’s going to be a talk and demonstration on the safe use of a chain saw. Peter has organised for Roddy Ross a professional chain saw user to give our club some guidance on the use and maintenance of a chain saw, this will also include the safety protection gear recommended when using a chain saw.
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Our meeting this week on Thursday 27th October was managed by John Ruickbie, John did this presentation as a solo event, his theme for the presentation was how to make Staved Construction items, in lay mans terms how to make use of Barrel making techniques in woodturning. There wouldn’t be a lot of turning in this presentation as most of what John put forward was more to do with how to construct an item for turning that used Staved Construction methods.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 27-10-2022. Managed by John Ruickbie.”
Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is being managed and presented by John Ruickbie, John is going to be working with Staved Construction, this method involves using strips of wood machined to given angles along their length in order to create a cylinder when assembled.
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