Our May demonstrator was Paul Bellamy who made us a Lighthouse bedside lamp. Paul normally makes this item out of oak but for demonstration purposes he used a softwood. The lighthouse consisted of a base, a main body, a top, a light bulb with fitting, a plastic tube, a length of cable with an electric […]
Category: Demos
Demonstrations
Club Night – April 2024
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 […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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. […]
Club Nights – April 2023
The demonstrator for our April meeting was Robert Till who gave us an informative and entertaining demonstration using wet wood. He told us what to look out for when drying the wood and methods to try and prevent the item from cracking. After rough turning the initial shape of the […]