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Auction News

The total taken at the auction was £1965 which gives the club £393 from commission.

The Treasurer has made up envelopes containing the cash for each Seller. These can be collected from the Club Shop at any  Turning Tuesday.

Lots 57 and 76 were left behind by John Halliday by mistake so they will be put aside for him to collect at some point.

A total of 145 lots were offered for sale, of which only 19 were unsold.

The unsold lots are numbers 8, 14, 30, 63, 66, 67, 68, 78, 81, 93, 94, 98, 105, 113, 127, 130, 134, 141, 144. If any of these items are yours, please pick them up soon, if you didn’t do this immediately after the sale.

All in all the day went very well with a lot of positive feedback received – all down to a lot of effort and preparation from the Committee.

Notices April 2015

March

The Chainsaw Workshop that we ran last month was excellent. It was supposed to finish about 4pm but we basically had to throw people out sometime after 6.15pm !! There was an informal competition for the dirtiest air filter, after which the saws got some much needed care and attention.

Urr Church was full to overflowing for the funeral service of Life Member, Robert Irving. The Club was represented by most of the Committee and was mentioned during the address. Robert has bequeathed his lathe, tools and equipment to the Club, some of which we will keep and some which we will include in the Auction. The lathe and chuck have already been in use at Turning Tuesday.

April

The topic this month is ‘Chucks, jaws and their uses’. The competition item is something turned AND carved; the Wood of the Month is Walnut.

The Auction of woodturning and woodworking tools and equipment is this Saturday, 18 April, with viewing from 11am and the sale starting at 2pm. Tonight is your very last chance to put anything in the sale as we have to prepare the final catalogue. We can NOT accept items into the sale on the day of sale. If you need a hand shifting large items we may be able to help; speak to Rolf. The Terms and Conditions of sale, and the Catalogue of items entered so far, over 120 lots !!, are on our website in the Calendar entry for the Auction. There are three paper copies of the current catalogue, and the T&C’s, on the Notice Board for those that don’t have computers.

The Auction will work like this :-

If you intend to bid, on Saturday you MUST get a bidding number card. At the same time you will also get a copy of the final catalogue.

The ONLY way to bid is by showing your bidding number.

When an item is sold, we will write the lot number and successful bid amount on your bidding card in the space provided.

Take this to the Treasurer and pay, cash or cheque only. Treasurer will countersign your card PAID.

Show this to the Doorman and they will hand over your goods.

At the end of the sale there will be a delay for sellers while we work out how much is due to each seller, then we will pay the sellers, less the Club’s 20% commission of course.

May

Chris Pouncy from Robert Sorby will be with us once again next month to demonstrate their latest gizmos and give you the opportunity to buy stuff. If you want to order anything specific, let Roger know ASAP and Chris should be able to bring it.

The Competition item is easy – a group of three mushrooms; and the Wood of the Month is Chestnut.

Saturday 23 May is our Watch Try and Buy Open Day, for which we will need demonstrators, work to sell and general helpers. Sunday 24 May is a demo day by professional turner Sue Harker; and we usually include a light lunch as part of the package. Judith and David Simpson, who have prepared previous lunches, are providing B&B for Sue therefore will not be able to do the lunch this time. So, we need someone to make sandwiches etc. and generally look after lunch – if you’ve been to any of the demo days you’ll know what’s required, any volunteers ? The obvious possibility is – no volunteers, no lunch.

Both these events are advertised in the Spring Fling brochure; copies of which are on the table under the Notice Board.

And finally . . .

As listed on the back of your Programme, the Club is attending three events this year at which we will be demonstrating and selling YOUR work. Therefore we will need LOTS of items especially for the Kirkcudbright Tollbooth in August which we have for over two weeks.

Our website is able to send you an email when something new is added to the site. If you don’t receive emails from us and would like to be kept informed, to register for this service, send an email to Phil Jones, his email address is on your Programme card and on the web site. If we open the site so that you can register yourself on-line we very quickly get hundreds of spam registrations, so we had to stop that.

Extra item for the on-line version

The Notices writer forgot to mention that we will be starting another ‘Introduction to Woodturning’ course on Thursday 23 April with, I think, 4 students.

Auction catalogue

The first version of the auction catalogue is available on the site in the Calendar entry for the sale.

If you have items you want to sell please send full details ASAP. Think what YOU would want to know if you were going to bid for an item – make, model, size, power, capacity, age, condition. The clearer the catalogue entry the more likely we are to sell the item AND get a good price for it.

Chainsaw Workshop/Auction lots

The chainsaw workshop is tomorrow, Saturday 21 March, 1pm – 4pm at the Workshop. Bring your saw etc, petrol or electric, and learn or revise how to look after it well. Maybe you are think of buying a chainsaw and don’t know where to start – there’s sure to be wide variety of other members’ saws on display. The usual tea/coffee and bickies will be on tap.

If you are coming AND you have items to sell in the Auction next month then please bring full details with you i.e. make and model, capacities etc. and tell Phil H. He will bring a laptop and enter the details directly into the Auction catalogue, which will be put on our website as soon as there is something in it !!! The Terms and Conditions of Sale are on the website already as part of the Calendar entry for the Auction.