Welcome everyone to the first Club meeting of 2014 and a belated Happy New Year to you all.
David Wright
Those of you on the email circulation will already be aware of this, but it is with great sadness that I have to announce that fellow member David Wright died recently after a brave fight with cancer – only a little while ago he ordered some candlestick cups, he kept on turning to the end.
As David has left his body to science there will not be a funeral service but there will be a remembrance service sometime during the next few weeks at St.Ninian’s, Castle Douglas, where David was a member.
I will let you know when the service will take place, in the meantime please keep his wife Marjory in your thoughts.
Club Champion
At the December meeting we didn’t have time to work out the final placings on the night. They were posted on our web site later and confirmed that the results, based on your scoring throughout the year were:-
First Chick Hampton
Second Reg Thirlwall
Third Phil Howard
This means that Chick retains the Club Champion trophy. Congratulations to him, and well done to everyone who entered. Our competition really IS about taking part and not just about WINNING.
February
You’ve had two months to make your tazzas for the competition so we’ll expect a good entry.
The demo tonight is by Roger who is going to make a natural edge bowl and explain some of the challenges and opportunities you may encounter !!!
Wood of the Month. Rather than spend a whole evening looking at different woods, which could get a bit repetitive, we are going to try looking at one a month for just a couple of minutes each. We’ll pass around some samples of each wood and talk about how to identify them and what they are like for turning. For no particular reason, we are starting with Ash this month.
Turning Tuesdays are really buzzing. It would be a good idea for you to bring your tools, chucks and even bench top lathes with you. Club lathes spindle sizes are one with ¾ “ x 16 tpi, No. 1 Morse Tapers and two with 1” x 8 tpi, No. 2 MT. The lathe that we have on loan is ¾ “ x 16 tpi, No. 1 Morse Tapers and Phil J’s lathe which he often brings is 1” x 8 tpi, No. 2 MT.
If you didn’t get your copy of the 2014 Programme previously, they are available tonight. I mentioned in December that there is already a change; Robert Sorby will now visit us in May and the Mallets demo will be in June. The Competition items for June and August also swap places. Please amend your copy of the Programme.
The next ‘Introduction to Woodturning’ course starts on Friday 21 February and is fully booked with someone interested in the next course after that !! The course is only open to Club members and the course fee is £50 which includes everything you need i.e. use of a lathe, tools, wood etc.
There is a Committee Meeting scheduled for February 25th, so if you have anything you want to raise, please have a word with any Committee member – namely Phil H, Phil J, Roger, Rolf, Judith and David.
March
Saturday 1 March is a full day professional demo by Andrew Hall, The Hat Man. Not to be missed, get your ticket TONIGHT.
The topic for the Club meeting next month is a demo by Bill Johnstone and Ian Dawson from Craftsman’s Supplies, and the competition item is a natural edge bowl.
You also need to bring a piece of wood to go into a draw, then you will get another piece of wood back from which to make your April competition entry. If you can’t be at the March meeting for some reason, please arrange for someone else to bring your contribution and pick up your drawn blank, otherwise you’ll not be able to make your April entry. Clear ???