Welcome to the Galloway Woodturners April competition.

Thank you to all entrants it is a genuine joy to receive your competition entries each month. The quality of your submissions are very high again and several of you have demonstrated the additional skills of photography to show the work to the best advantage (when we are back to the workshop we will be able to see if you are just hiding the rough bits at the back!).

So here are this months Fruit Bowls, vote for your chosen Senior and Novice entry by typing in the numbers at the bottom of the page, emailing me at rolf@buwert.com or WhatsApp text etc.

Please do so this evening so that I can add up the votes tonight (13/04/2021)

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Senior 1

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Senior 2

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Senior 3

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Senior 4

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Senior 5

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Senior 6

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Senior 7

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Senior 8

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Novice 1

 

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Novice 2

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Novice 3

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It’s that time again. The club monthly meeting will be (via Zoom) this Tuesday, 13th April, and we are open to your monthly club competition entries, which this month is Make an open fruit bowl. How did we decide on a fruit bowl you ask? because it is April, and Aprilis is from a Roman/Latin verb meaning “to open”, such as fruits and flowers – therefore an open fruit bowl (glad you asked now aren’t you).

Send in your images of the fruit bowls you have made to me, or upload them directly to the web site Media folder, and please state which category you are entering.

To gain access to the meeting use the codes I gave you before, it is a recurring meeting code. For those of you who have ‘tidied out’ their emails I will send it again to everyone. 

Our demonstrator this month is Roger, who will be showing us how to use metal as an inlay, so providing he has not burned down his workshop practicing for Tuesday’s meeting it should be an extremely interesting demo.

Rolf

Here is the points situation after the third round.

Senior/ Mature:

Bill McCoskrie (15), Mick Schofield (14), Colin Marshall & Rolf Buwert (11), Stephen Eccles (10), David Simpson (8), Reg Thirlwall (3), Arthur Young & Ken Coates (1).

Regrettably Colin Marshall’s entry did not appear on the voting page. He was awarded 1 point.

Junior/ Novice:

Andrew Hall (12), Christine Carson (6), Michael Jacob (5), Kenny Johnston (1).

The scoring system awards 6 points for 1st position, 5 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd. All other entries, including those with no votes, receive 1 point.

Welcome to this month’s competition, and thank you to all those who submitted entries.

The subject is based on the ancient legend of the twins Romulus and Remus who founded the city or Rome, so make two items, not necessarily identical as we are not told if R&R were identical twins.

The process is the same as previous months, come to the monthly meeting, during the coffee break look at the entries and vote for your favourite and I will add the scores together at the end of the meeting. As the meeting takes place on Zoom the coffee break need not take place at 8pm so vote when you can, but please vote. Many of you might find it easier to do so right after the meeting ends.

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Entry Senior 1

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Entry Senior 2

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Entry Senior  3

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Entry Senior 4

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Entry Senior 5

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Entry Senior 6

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Entry Senior 7

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Entry Senior 8

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Entry 9 Senior

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Entry 10 Novice

 

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Entry 11 Novice

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Can I remind members that the monthly club competition is nearly upon us again and the theme (inspired by the Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus, twin brothers, whose story tells the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus) is

Make two items the same (there is no indication that Romulus and Remus were identical twins or not)

Please indicate if you are entering the novice or senior class, as sometimes I get it wrong.

Today is Saturday so if you have not made anything for the competition yet then you have all Sunday, all of Monday and up to 7pm Tuesday to make the pair of items. No need to rush unless you are doing a lot of piercing, colouring or carving. A pair of spurtles or dibbers can be made in 20 minutes (if they win is up to the membership’s votes) so lets have lots of entries.

Rolf 

 

Here are three suspended pomanders completed from the bits I used in the on-line demo at the last Club meeting.

The project was featured in Woodturning magazine, Issue 348. If you would like to have a go at making one and don’t have the magazine, I can email you a scanned copy of the article. Email me at phil.howard50@btinternet.com and ask.  If you make any for sale, make sure that you credit the original designer Ian Woodford.

Phil H

Here is the points situation after the second round.

Senior/ Mature:

Colin Marshall (10), Stephen Eccles & Bill McCoskrie & Mick Schofield (9), Rolf Buwert & David Simpson (7), Reg Thirlwall (2), Ken Coates (1).

Junior/ Novice:

Christine Carson & Andrew Hall (6), Kenny Johnston (1).

The scoring system awards 6 points for 1st position, 5 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd. All entries with no votes receive 1 point.

Here are the February competition entries. Please vote by expressing your preferences in the “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom of this page. I will also accept votes on Whatsapp, text message, email, or written on a crisp £10 note.

 

Senior Entry 2

 

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Senior Entry 3

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Senior Entry 5

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Senior Entry 6

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Senior Entry 7

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Senior Entry 8

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Novice Entry 10 

  

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Novice Entry 11

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Novice Entry 12

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Vote now. Good luck everyone.

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I have just had an enquiry from a lady wishing to purchase a lathe for her husbands birthday. She is looking to spend about £250 – Anybody know of a lathe going spare? Please drop me an e mail.

Roger

Here is the points situation after the first round.

Senior/ Mature:

Rolf Buwert (6), Colin Marshall (5), Stephen Eccles & Bill McCoskrie & Mick Schofield (4), Ken Coates & David Simpson & Reg Thirlwall (1).

Junior/ Novice:

Christine Carson (6).

The scoring system awards 6 points for 1st position, 5 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd. All entries with no votes receive 1 point.