Author Archives: Rolf Buwert

Woodturner, toy maker, storyteller (author of Beatrix the Bad Fairy and Haggis Hunting, a short history) and maker of Haggis Hunting Horns. I own a very small woodland where I grow my own timber and talk to the birds. I trade under the name of Created Woodcrafts. AWGB Accredited Woodturning Tutor.

July ‘Light’ themed competition

Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry.

After the vote this evening we have one winner in each section

Senior – Colin Marshall

Novice – Andrew Hall

Well done everyone.

Senior 1- Arthur Young

 

 

Senior 2 – WINNER – Senior section – Colin Marshall. Well done!

 

Senior 3 Mick Schofield

 

 

Senior 4 David Simpson

  Video on Facebook

Senior 5 Bill McCoskry

Senior 6 Rolf Buwert

Senior 7 Steven Young

 

Novice 11 Steven Eccles

 

Novice 12 WINNER -Novice section – Andrew Hall. Well done!

 

 

 

Not open just yet …

I know that some members are keen to get back and others are nowhere near ready to return to the workshop, and that is fine, so, as other places open up, we have to start thinking about when and how to get things going again. I was at the workshop yesterday, and everything is exactly as we left it. Our neighbour Frank was working away on one of his motorhomes and it was good to see him. 

Although we are not announcing reopening just yet I expect that there will be a graduated return of individuals, then groups of two or three, before we open fully in compliance with government guidelines (whatever they may be).

I will keep you informed as things progress, but I get the feeling that things are opening up rapidly, and people are getting excited about this, however we need to exercise restraint and have a little more patience, there is light at the end of the tunnel, this is not some joker walking backwards with a lamp in his hand, this is genuine progress which we do not want to jeopardize, locally or nationally.

Every one of you is valuable and important, and much as I want us to see each other again in 3D I care for you all too much to risk your health, or that of others in your household to open too soon.

Until then stay safe and stay up to your knees in shaving in your own workshops, boy are we going to be good woodturners when we get back with all the practice we have had during lockdown !!

Rolf

Club Competition 16th June

Thanks to 

Mick Schofield
Steve Eccles
Rolf Buwert
Kenneth Coates
Christine Carson
John ‘Jake’ Twiname
Andrew Hall

who have already submitted their entries for this month’s competition, and very impressive some of them are! If your name is not listed here and you have an entry please send your images to me, or upload yourself to the Media file. If you have not made an entry yet then there is still time, up to 8pm on Tuesday evening. You don’t want any of the people listed above to win do you? so get turning, for fame and fortune may follow the winner.

Rolf

Club Competition 16th June 2020

Hello folks ! 

I hope you are all well and keeping busy, especially in the workshop. 

The club competition this month is a “Mushroom Group” and I have finished my entry, and look forward to seeing yours. Please upload the images to the web site and I will sort them out, or email the images to me at rolf@buwert.com. Sorry but I don’t have a mobile phone at the moment so if you sent anything to me via Whatsapp etc then I will not have received it, so please resent to my email.

My demo of Swanee Whistle making should have been tomorrow night too but as I can’t get my head round how to video it and upload the video to the web site then we are going to have to keep that one for another date.

So, if you have not yet made your mushroom group yet then you still have time. Turn, photograph and send the images to me by 8pm on Tuesday 16th, thanks. 

Competition Winners May 2020

What a magnificent set of entries we had again this month, well done everybody. The subject of Something Blue could have been a challenge but everyone met the brief.

The winners were as follows

Novice – Steve Eccles

Entry 10 - Novice
Entry 10 – Novice Steve Eccles

The winners of the Senior class was a three way tie

Steven Young
Reg Thirwall

Colin Marshall

Next month’s competition (16th June) is a mushrooms group. I look forward to seeing the entries. So, off to the workshop folks.