Last Teaching Session before Christmas and Sarah completes her Spindle Project – An Osolnik Candlestick with a brass inlay.       Well done Sarah.

A great days turning with Nikos at the Master Class. Reg, Carl and Chas turned a Winged Bowl and I turned a Tagliatelle Goblet.

At the start of this course I said that the aim of the course was to have fun, learn some techniques, and produce quality shavings. There was no expectation to come away with any finished item, nor was there any aim to produce anything in our first year of turning, but if we could derive pleasure from turning wood into beautiful shavings, and become comfortable and proficient in the use of tools then we should be happy. Despite this, last night we finished the bowls we had started in weeks four and five of the course, then we spent 40 minutes making another bowl from scratch, therefore finishing the course with TWO bowls.

Thank you students, John for helping the first half of the course, and wee Phil for stocking up with biscuits.

Tonight, –  Phil Howard will be showing his artistic side

The wood of the month this month – Robin will be telling us about Zebrano

Next month– January -NO CLUB MEETING. Workshop open as normal

February –The demonstration will be Items for the kitchen – Rolf gets domesticated.

Wood of the month will be Sycamore

and the competition item will be “An Art Piece”

The new programme for 2017 is now available and will be on the web site this week.

Turning Workshops

Sunday 12^th & 19^th Feb Phil Howard will be taking a workshop on Hollowing. As places are limited (6 only) Please book your place tonight

Professional Demonstration

The next professional Demonstration is on SATURDAY with Nikos Siragas from Crete – Please support this event – get your tickets tonight.

On Saturday 25^th February, there will be an all-day demonstration by David Lowe RPT from Snainton woodturning. Amongst other things he will be demonstrating his signature piece “A Vase with a Zip in it” – Tickets on sale at the shop.

Diary Dates

17^th Dec – Professional Demo by Nikos Siragas form Crete

12^th & 19^th Feb – Worksop on Hollowing

25^th Feb – Professional Demonstration by David Lowe

 As this is the last Club meeting before Christmas may I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year

 Roger

For those who are coming on Sunday to help collect the Yew from Kirkcown please meet up either at the club at 9am or at 9.30am in the Lay by on the A75 just before Creetown. The lay by is on the left  next to the direction sign for Creetown. – See pics below

Due to unforeseen circumstances (i.e. Xmas) I am no longer able to fill my place on the master class with Nicos Siragas on Sunday 18th Dec. The total cost for the day and the materials should be £68 but I’ll be happy to take £50 if someone wants to take my place.

Note this is not a beginners course but you don’t need to be an expert either. You just need to be  comfortable mounting a piece of work and turning it to completion with a reasonable finish.

Update: meeting at the workshop at 1pm

Three parties:

Team 1 – Kirkcowan: up to 6 people, picking Roger up from Creetown at 1:30pm on the way, loading wood onto trailer, then over to Glengap to have the wood planked on the sawmill, then back to the workshop

Team 2 – Barwhinnock: 2 people, one with chainsaw to cut back sprouting sycamores, the second to do a bit of sanding (sander, mask, etc provided)

Team 3 – Workshop: blank and seal more of the dry wood, tidy up shelves inside, find room ready for planks coming in from Kirkcowan, kitchen and toilets could do with a clean

If you’d prefer to go straight to Kirkcowan or Barwhinnock please let me know (07590 695199) so we don’t end with too many people at the wrong place.

The November competition results are now on the website, you can find them here.

This months winners are:

Mature Turners: John Twiname

Novice Turners: Hugh Parker and Arthur Young

Sorry everyone but neither Judith nor I will be able to open the workshop this afternoon.

David

Judith will deputise for me and open the workshop from 2.00 – 4.00pm. on Wednesday 2nd November.

Thereafter, if there is sufficient interest, I should be free to open the workshop on Wednesday afternoons until the end of February, (except for December 28th and January 4th!).

David