hi folks, DENISE MCCLURG (one of our wednesday ladies) is having a table sale at castle douglas high school,and has a table to fill and wonders if people would donate any turned items for the sale, or if you like she would sell your turnings for you and take a small commission if any one would like to take part(please)bring your turnings on tuesday/wednesday 28/29th(sorry its short notice) night and give them to her or me thanks very much she will put club singes up and notice board for advert for club thanks            jake

hi folks ,we have been working hard in workshop with the new roof steel brackets are made and up ,steel beams are drilled and up and all bolted together, timber beams are up and wedged,we have stoped work on plaster board just now till  the next week demo is by. so we have started to remove the side with the wood on it and getting it ready for the windows. we should be starting them on monday.but hugh parker and i cant lift the doors down from store so can you chaps that are going in on sunday with phil howard. lift them down for me please when you are finished turning.thank you ,and we can get on with them on monday we need all windows and all doors down please.

phil howard , you may be need to arrive a we bit earlyer than you had planed,as you will have to plug the big lathe back in and the lights near it need pluged in. sorry about this but their is only so much i can do. but as you will see progress is going on at pace ,.       hope you all understand this.      jake

rodger asked for comments , ithought the master class went very well i personally got alot from it whither i remember it remains to be seen ,but it was very good, the plate i made looked very good (and yes nick my wife linda was like me and said it was all right but would have looked better without the paint) sorry about that but your old enough to take the truth now,.only down side iwould see to this sort of demo is its rather dear for working folk, the night time demo was also very good iam shure alot of us enjoyed it, thanks to committie for bringing another top scalp to ower owen area thanks jake

great show last night good presentar and he gaveout some usefull tips that we all could understand,and we could all see what he was doing, dont know if that was down to the new camera opperator or because i was at the front blocking every ones veiw ,he he   well done committee