So that’s it for this year and it’s been a really good close competition with just 0.2 separating the top four, but it’s Chic who’s topped the table once again – well done Chic!
| Position | Member | Average Best 8 of 10 |
| 1 | Chick Hampton | 7.7 |
| 2 | Bryan Jardine | 7.6 |
| 3 | Phil Howard | 7.5 |
| 3 | Reg Thirlwall | 7.5 |
| 5 | Phil Jones | 6.9 |
| 6 | David Simpson | 6.8 |
| 7 | Judith Simpson | 6.7 |
| 7 | Jake Twiname | 6.7 |
| 9 | Iain Robertson | 6.6 |
| 10 | Eric McCowan | 6.3 |
| 11 | John Brown | 5.6 |
At the AGM we asked you to help out with the running of the Club and take a bit of the load off the Committee.
We STILL need :-
One or two people to take charge of Refreshments on Club nights and Turning Tuesdays, bringing the milk, buying coffee/tea/biscuits as required, keeping the kitchen, mugs etc. clean and tidy.
One or two people to take charge of our audio/visual kit, setting up the cameras and screens, microphone and speakers, and acting as camera persons.
Potential volunteers, please speak to any Committee member. If these roles remain empty we face the real possibility of no video and/or refreshments at a future meeting – it’s up to you.
December
The topic this month is ‘Scoops and spoons’ with Phil J and the final competition item for 2014 is a set of at least 4 (four) drinks coasters. The Wood of the Month is Laburnum.
January
Note that there is NO CLUB MEETING IN JANUARY. Turning Tuesdays will continue, apart from 30 December.
And finally . . .
After the talk on chainsaws last month, we wondered if members would be interested in a hands-on Chainsaw Workshop session with the same tutor. Bring your own saws along, check them over, sharpen the chain, cut some wood. Tell any Committee member tonight if you want the Club to arrange this.
Programme cards for 2015 are available tonight. Several members commented during the year ‘Oh, I don’t read the Programme’. If you were one of those then don’t take a copy, otherwise please do. Two dates in May need to be corrected, should be Saturday 23 and Sunday 24. The version on our web site is correct.
Subscriptions are now overdue, if you’ve not paid yours please pay Phil J tonight. It is the same as last year, just £25. We don’t want to have to ask you to pay the Visitor’s fee of £3.
The Committee is meeting tomorrow evening – if you want to raise any matter, speak to any Committee member tonight.
Assuming Roland brings the big burr that he is working on, and we can complete the preparations, we may be able to have a go with the Kel McNaughton centre saver system next Tuesday, the 25 November. So if you want to see it in action – come to Turning Tuesday !
OK, so it’s the same website except that it has now been moved to a new hosting company called Go Daddy after our existing hosts announced they were shutting up shop. In the process I seem to have lost the last three comments made (sorry!) but everything should be the same as it was.
The change has resulted in us having a lot more storage available for pictures so I’m hoping we can start building up a gallery of work by members and maybe even have a gallery dedicated to the club competition entries.
If you have any other ideas for what we might put on the site just leave a reply or let me know in person.
Cheers, Phil J
The results are in – congratulations to Les and Brian who share the honours of first place:
At the AGM we asked you to help out with the running of the Club and take a bit of the load off the Committee. Some roles have been filled :-
Elwin Campbell will act as Minutes Secretary to take Committee Meeting Minutes when Roger is absent. Peter Fitzgerald and Andrew Rattnam will run the Club Shop. John (Jake) Twiname will join the Committee.
Many thanks to them. Other roles are still needed :-
A Membership person to help Phil J maintain the membership records.
One or two people to take charge of Refreshments on Club nights and Turning Tuesdays, bringing the milk, buying coffee/tea/biscuits as required, keeping the kitchen, mugs etc. clean and tidy.
One or two people to take charge of our audio/visual kit, setting up the cameras and screens, microphone and speakers, and acting as camera persons.
Potential volunteers, please speak to any Committee member.
It was excellent to see Galloway well represented at the Border Woodturners Open Day and Inter Club Competition at Brampton recently. A wide range of work exhibited and For Sale, some good , some not so good.
November
The topic this month is ‘Timber conversion for woodturners’ at which we have a talk and demo on chainsaws; and Bryan Jardine hopefully has brought along a range of chainsaws and accessories.
The competition item is a lidded box – extra marks if it has a threaded lid !!! The Wood of the Month is Birch.
The North of England Woodworking Show, usually known as the Harrogate Show is on 21 – 23 November. Reg Thirlwall posted that he had some free tickets available . . . . . . . .
December
The topic next months is ‘Scoops and spoons’ with Phil J and the final competition item for 2014 is a set of at least 4 (four) drinks coasters. The Wood of the Month is Laburnum .
And finally . . .
As I’ve had no comments whatsoever on next year’s draft Programme, I’m assuming that you all think it’s FABULOUS !!!! However we still need 3 or 4 ideas for Competition items – suggestions to any Committee member please. Programme cards should be available next month – we are waiting for Chris from Robert Sorby to let us know when he is available.
Subscriptions are now due, if you’ve not paid yours please pay Phil J tonight. It is the same as last year, just £25.
We have been contacted by new woodturning supplier ‘Olivers Woodturning’ who is offering members a 5% discount. There is a link to their web site from our Club site ‘Links and Resources’ page , then if you want to take advantage of the discount, the necessary discount code is on the Notice board at The Workshop
I’ve just updated our Links and Resources page with a new entry for Olivers Woodturning. It looks interesting but I haven’t tried it myself yet so have a look so if you decide to use it please let us know here how you got on.
Cheers, Phil J
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
At the AGM last night (Tuesday 14 Oct) the Committee asked for help in a number of roles.
A Minutes Secretary to take Committee Meeting Minutes when Roger is absent.
A Membership person to help Phil J maintain the membership records.
A regular Committee member to represent members views and interests.
One or two people to run the Club Shop, opening/closing, selling items to members, keeping an eye on stock levels then telling Roger what to order.
One or two people to take charge of Refreshments on Club nights and Turning Tuesdays, bringing the milk, buying coffee/tea/biscuits as required, keeping the kitchen, mugs etc. clean and tidy.
One or two people to take charge of our audio/visual kit, setting up the cameras and screens, microphone and speakers, and acting as camera persons.
During the evening Elwin Campbell offered to act as Minutes Secretary and Peter Fitzgerald and Andrew Rattnam offered to look after the Shop. Thank you to them.
The other roles remain unfilled.