Our April demonstrator was Ian Ethell, Ian is the Vice Chairman of Trent Valley Woodturners and his demonstration was a 9 axis honey dipper. The wood used was Ash with a 6mm offset at each end as described in his handout. The handout indicates the ten steps needed to produce the dipper […]
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Club Nights – February 2024
February saw us welcome Danielle Flowers as our guest demonstrator. Danielle is based in Ludlow and specialises in contemporary crafts using British hardwoods and her demonstration for us was a baby rattle using Ash and Oak. Danni started with a spindle gouge turning the handle out of Ash, she used a damp cloth to raise […]
Club Nights – January 2024
January saw our first club night of 2024 with Jeff Belcher demonstrating a Nutcracker. Jeff made a homemade jig to bore the body of the nutcracker, holding it in place with cable ties and hot melt glue. The body was 60mm diameter with a 41mm hole drilled with a forstner bit to […]
Leominster Victorian Market – December 2023
Saturday December 9th was our last show this year, the Leominster Victorian Market, this has always been a good show for us however this year due to the proposed road works it was changed from Corn Square to a number of various locations, we were on the first floor of Grange Court, a beautiful Grade […]
Club Nights – November 2023
November saw our last meeting of 2023, our AGM and social, with mince pies and apple pies as an extra treat. It was also the last of this years competitions which was an item with colour or texturing for the novices and a recently completed item of their choice from our more experienced turners. […]
Club Nights – October 2023
Our October demonstrator was Paul Hannaby, Paul started the demonstration by turning a bowl. He mounted a black poplar bowl blank onto a 8mm screw chuck and used a 1/2″ spindle gouge to turn the bowl shape, showing the difference in cutting with a pull or push cut. He showed how to turn […]
All Day Event – October 2023
Sunday 1st October saw a visit from professional woodturner Les Thorne. The first project from Les was a pointed finialed box in apple with the finial in walnut. With this project Les was able to demonstrate spindle turning, hollowing, jam chucking and texturing. He showed the tool in its ‘Happy Place’ on the […]
Club Nights – September 2023
Our September Club night was a ‘Hand On’ event and following requests from the membership we had the following; Brian Ford demonstrating the skew chisel; Brian demonstrated the use of the skew and various other tools that have a long cutting edge that can be used in the same way as the skew. The skew […]
Kington Show – September 2023
Be Careful What You Wish For !!! Following the disappointment of not being able to attend the Tenbury Wells Show in August due to the torrential rain and gale force winds we were all hoping for a dry a sunny day for the Kington Show, well as they say be careful what you wish for […]
Club Nights – August 2023
Our August demonstrator was Chris Parker who gave us a textured platter and box. Using a yew blank he made a shallow bowl which he textured using a hand held angle grinder with a texturing disc. This was finished using a wire brush to smooth off the texturing which he then scorched […]