Author: divingdiynut

A very entertaining and informative demo by Phil Sheldon one of our club demonstrators.

Phil produced a bowl explaining how the item was held, what tools he used & how they where presented to the work piece.

Phil at the beginning

Roughing the O/D

Starting the form

View of tool presentation on screen

nearly complete form

Then he proceeded to demonstrate different technique’s to enhance the quite bland blank that he had turned.

Highlighting carving both by hand and with a mini carver, removing the burrs with a mini blow lamp before spraying it all black then sanding to just leave the carvings black before spraying some spirit colours. he used mini scent spray bottles for each colour as his preferred method rather than an air brush or a mouth blown air brush as both the later require regular cleaning between colours.

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He then finished off by spraying the piece with a gloss lacquer to bring out the colours.

A great demo with a good questions & answers session much appreciated and applauded by the members present

This was a bring and buy night.
A well attended evening allowing members to sell unwanted items, tools, wood, turning accessories at advantageous prices to the purchaser.
Also an evening when members could talk to the more knowledgeable club members about any tool,equipment or project problems they might be having.
So a good night.

This was a hands on night where the 4 club lathes manned by the clubs lathe leaders mentored newer members in the safe and correct presentation of the tools to the workpiece, what tools to use for a particular cut or operation etc.

The nights project “fruit” where used as a simple item that could be completed by all.

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A night where our newer members some who have not yet even used a lathe got to get onto our lathes, watched over by the our lathe leaders.

All said they had learned something from the evenings activity, a number of Apples & Pears being completed or partly finished to be taken away for completion at home.

Unfortunately the booked demonstrator GUY RAVINE had been taken ill and at the last minute we managed to get Wolfgang Schulze Zathau who did a good demo for us in September so we are grateful for his help in filling the day at such short notice.
Wolfgang made three items during the day a platter/bowl coloured black with a carved design,
A natural edged goblet from plum wood (lovely grain).
finally a lidded box with a supari nut Finial

Although only a total of 17 member’s attended the demo all thought it was well worth the day spent watching another good demo by Wolfgang, something of interest to all, tool presentation sanding and finishes where discussed and some new ideas to contemplate incorporating into new projects

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Turning the Supari (Betel) nut.

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The members gave Wolgang a good round of applause for a great demo as well as thanking him for standing in with less than a weeks notice.

Another well attended interesting and as usual entertaining evening where members shared their gained experience discussing the timbers used, methods of production, sources of materials and finishes applied.

So much on display to inspire everyone with possible new projects. questions where asked answered and discussed and all contributors where applauded on completion of their presentation

The project task (Clocks, lamps & Mice) brought out a great selection of very innovative designs using LED lights, classic turnings for Tiffany style lamps, a ships wheel clock, small watch’s set into some beautiful timber as well as a duck carrying a timepiece. Mice where there also either lording it in a Windsor chair, eating their way through a wedge of cheese or poking their whiskers into who know’s what.

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The Gallery table was another good display of items, some made by our newer members showing pieces of which they should be justly proud.

Some beautiful dishes, Oval turnings, a charred bowl from an old oak stump, a steam engine from left over off cuts, a musical box with a sleigh on top, items turned in Corion & other alternatives to wood,simple xmas trees and walking sticks made using  a segmented construction.