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.

What a brilliant meeting we had on Tuesday 12th January 2021 ! First of the year, first on Zoom and a great start to a year full of hope.

Our very own Mick Schofield demonstrated how to make perfect spheres between centres and with a jam chuck (an idea he picked up from Alan Batty).

He produced a pdf file of how to do this back in October last year, and the file can be found by searching ‘spheres’ in the search box on this web site (or by clicking on the Simply Spherical link at the bottom of this post).

Our aim in this first Zoom meeting was to replicate, as close as possible, a normal club meeting, and I think it was successful, with the only thing not so easy to replicate being the coffee and biscuit break, but given that we can sit and have a coffee and (hopefully Irving’s) biscuit by our side right from the start it was not such a great loss. Maybe when we get to meet together again, and have to distance ourselves out more, we could have a coffee table between ourselves and the next person, and thereby replicate the Zoom session?

The competition was also excellent, especially as I got most votes for my little double skinned ‘fruit’ bowl with a plumwood outer skin and a pearwood inner lining.

Next month’s meeting will be a demo by our founder member and former chairman Phil Howard who will show us how he makes a hanging pomander as recently shown in Woodturning Magazine. 

The competition item for 9th February will be Make a soap dish, liquid soap or washing up holder, or other item for cleaning related activity. 

Simply Spherical (1)

Welcome to the first competition of 2021, and what a selection of entries we have for you !

Inspired by the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings, looking back and to the future, the criteria is something with two faces, two woods or two colours.

Voting is now complete and the result is interesting, the winner of the senior was number 4, the double skinned bowl, Plum wood for the outer and Pear wood for the inner lining. The novice winner was number 10, the plant stand.

Thanks to all who entered and all who voted.

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Entry 1 Senior

Sycamore

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Entry  2 Senior

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Entry 3 Senior

Hawthorn ,  colours : blue and gold

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Entry  4 Senior (Winner)

Plum with a Pear lining

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Entry  5 Senior

 

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Entry  6 Senior

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Entry  7 Senior

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Entry  8 Senior

oak base and Meranti lid

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Entry  10 Novice (Winner)

Plant stand. Two faces, the hidden base, unfinished, private, the public, visible top, roughish inscription lux umbra dei, light is the shadow of God.