The weekend of 20th & 21st July saw our second show of the year, the Much Marcle Steam Rally. The weather was much better than last year, with only a few short showers on the Saturday with Sunday being warm and sunny. We had our small lathe at the […]
Club Night – June 2024
June saw the first of our ‘Hands On’ evenings of 2024. Unfortunately our pole lathe demonstrator had to cancel at the last minute due to twisting his ankle in the garden, but we will hopefully see him in September. We did however have four different demonstrations and talks, they were; Tim Wright demonstrated a barley […]
Golden Valley Vintage & Country Fair – 8th June 2024
Saturday 8th June saw us attend our first show of 2024, the Golden Valley Vintage & Country Fair. The weather was dry which was a good start, if a little chilly for June and once we found our pitch we soon set about putting up the gazebo and setting out our wares. This […]
Club Night – May 2024
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]