Author Archives: Phil Jones

I am the former treasurer and website manager of the Galloway Woodturners club. I also enjoy bodging occasionally. In my spare time I work as an analyst programmer for Dumfries and Galloway Council.

Competition Results – September 2014

The results below are as the items were voted for and do not include the four disqualifications arising from the fact that the items were not made from beech, despite that being the one and only rule set for this month’s competition!

1. Chic Hampton 8.0

2. Phil Howard 7.7

3= Reg Thirlwall 6.9

3= Ian Robertson 6.9

3= John Twiname 6.9

6. Judith Simpson 6.6

7. David Simpson 6.4

8= Phil Jones 6.2

8= Roland Blackburn 6.2

8= Steve Young 6.2

11. Bryan Jardine 6.1

12. Bobby Carson 5.5

13. John Brown 4.9

Sanding Sealer with Food Safe Oil?

The following question was posed by Jake as a comment on another thread but I’ve moved it here because I think it deserves a post of its own:

hi, can some one refresh my memory do you put sanding sealer on before food related oil or just oil(food safe) for food related items you have turned and does the oil make it shine or is it dull thank you.  they say its an age thing but icant remember whatits about thanks  jake

The Toolpost website gives a good overview of Chestnut products but the bits relevant to this question are:

  1. Oil finishes are specially designed to penetrate the wood to give a natural water-resistant finish with a soft sheen
  2. Don’t use sealers if you plan to use finishing oil as the sealer will inhibit the oil’s penetration of the timber

In other words, oils are designed to soak into the timber whereas sealers are designed to prevent things from soaking into timber.

With regards to getting a shine finish, you could add wax or burnishing cream on top of an oil finish after it has completely set (maybe 24-48 hours) but doing this with food safe oil would immediately negate its food safeness so there really is no point. I don’t know if adding extra coats of food safe oil would increase the shine but I suspect a soft sheen is the best you can expect.

All ready for Margaret

So a few of us spent a highly productive the day rearranging the workshop, tidying up the woodstore and getting everything ready for Margaret Garrard’s demonstration tomorrow. We’ve got both cameras and the sound system working, brushed up, dusted the new lathe and laid out a fine assortment of timber for you to buy at exceptionally reasonable prices.

Margaret arrived at about 4pm and has set herself up. Some of her display pieces are brilliant and I think we’re in for a real treat tomorrow. See you there!

Wood Prep this Friday

I am planning to be at the workshop on Friday 23 May to spend some time tidying up the wood stores outside. This will involve chainsaw and bandsaw work to plank logs and prepare bowl and spindle blanks.

Depending on time and progress I might also spend some time getting signs and things ready for our big events at the weekend.

I’ll be there from 10am until I’ve had enough. Feel free to join me if you fancy it.

 

Registering on this website

Apologies to anyone subjected to a phishing scam from our website today. I turned on the option to allow people to register on the site and within a couple of hours we got three dodgy registrations, one or all of which appear to have been malicious.

I have now turned the option to register off and deleted the offending accounts.

Registration for this website will now have to be done manually. I will register all current members shortly and any member of the committee will be able to register new members in the future.

Apologies again for any inconvenience.