The club has very generously been offered some freshly felled elm which Jake and I plan to start tackling on Sunday morning from about 9am. If you have a chainsaw and/or trailer and/or can just lend a hand moving wood about then we would greatly appreciate your assistance. (Please remember your safety gear if you are bringing your chainsaw).

The location is Barwhinnock House near Twynholm (DG6 4PF). The gateway is on the A75 west of Twyholm. If you’re heading west, go past both Twynholm exits and the gateway is on the right but it’s where the overtaking lane is so you may prefer to go past, turn at the next junction and come back.

Whilst the elm is our priority for Sunday we are hoping this will turn into a regular thing because there is quite a bit of other timber available to us including ash, beech and birch.

May 2015 – A group of three mushrooms

Mature Turners

• Phil Howard  7.9
• Jake Twiname  7.6
• John Brown  7.2
• Les Reeves  7.1
• Reg Thirlwall  7.0
• Bryan Jardine  6.5
• David Simpson  6.4
• Chic Hampton 6.2
• Eric McCowan  5.5

New Turners

• Arthur Young  7.3
• Ian Spencer  6.8
• Susan Colley  6.4

I intend to have a major tool sharpening session at Turning Tuesday tomorrow night working on the tools left to the Club by Robert Irving. I’ll probably use the dry grinder, with and without the jig, and both the Sorby Pro-Edges. So if you want to sharpen up your sharpening come to Turning Tuesday !

The total taken at the auction was £1965 which gives the club £393 from commission.

The Treasurer has made up envelopes containing the cash for each Seller. These can be collected from the Club Shop at any  Turning Tuesday.

Lots 57 and 76 were left behind by John Halliday by mistake so they will be put aside for him to collect at some point.

A total of 145 lots were offered for sale, of which only 19 were unsold.

The unsold lots are numbers 8, 14, 30, 63, 66, 67, 68, 78, 81, 93, 94, 98, 105, 113, 127, 130, 134, 141, 144. If any of these items are yours, please pick them up soon, if you didn’t do this immediately after the sale.

All in all the day went very well with a lot of positive feedback received – all down to a lot of effort and preparation from the Committee.

in the Calendar entry for the Auction. Viewing from 11am, sale starts at 2pm. Payment by cash or cheque.

Mature Turners

• Chic Hampton  8.7
• Jake Twiname  7.9
• Phil Howard  7.8
• David Simpson 7.4
• Reg Thirlwall 7.4
• Bryan Jardine  6.7
• John Brown  6.5

. . in the updated catalogue, version 6.

The Club meeting on Tuesday 14 April is your final opportunity to bring items for inclusion in the Auction.

. . . . . and more waiting to be added. If you still have items that you want to sell, your last chance is to bring them to the Club Meeting next Tuesday, 14th April.

We will NOT accept items for sale on the day of the Auction as the catalogue will be closed on the Friday.

All items entered into the sale so far are in the expanded catalogue, which you can find in the Calendar entry for the Auction.

Lots more items have been added to the catalogue, with more waiting in the Workshop to be included which should be done on Tuesday.