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 […]
Category: Club evenings
Non demo club evenings. hands on etc.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Club Nights – July 2023
Our July demonstrator was Martin Saban-Smith who in his own words is a more artistic than practical tuner and who’s emphasis is on form over figure. One of the current influences on Martin’s work is the Japanese turner Eiko Tanaka and the demonstration he gave us was a Japanese style lidded box. The box was […]
Club Nights – June 2023
June 29th was our second ‘Hands On’ night of the year and saw the introduction of our new Twister FU180 lathe. A demonstration of the lathe was given by David Haines, the larger lathe will offer more capacity for our future demonstrators as well as our own members and will be […]
Club Nights – May 2023
In May we hosted Richard Finley as our guest demonstrator, he brought with him samples of his work. He used a selection of woods of different colours and gave us a very instructive demonstration of tools and tool use when turning a lidded bowl with finial. This included cross grain turning and spindle turning. […]