Minutes from the latest meeting 26/5/22 available on the Club minutes page
Report on our meeting 26-05-2022, managed by Alan Geddes.
Our meeting on Thursday 26th May was about making wooden boxes, this meeting was organised by Alan Geddes. Alan had all 5 lathes in operation with a turner on each, the turners whilst all making boxes were all working in their own way and producing a variety of wooden boxes.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 26-05-2022, managed by Alan Geddes.”Minutes available from the HWC trainers meeting
Minutes from the trainers meeting on the 19th May 2022 are now available here
Our next meeting is on 26-05-2022, managed by Alan Geddes.
Start time 6.45pm
Our meeting this week on Thursday 26th May 2022 is all about making wooden boxes, the meeting is being managed by Alan Geddes, he will have all 5 lathes working and all will be making wooden boxes of various descriptions. I know that at least 2 of the turners will be using some Laburnum blanks we received during the pandemic in late 2020. Laburnum is a beautiful wood to work with, very dense, excellent for boxes.
Continue reading “Our next meeting is on 26-05-2022, managed by Alan Geddes.”Report on our latest training day 19-05-2022.
Our latest training day was on Thursday 19th May 2022, we had all 5 lathes in use along with 5 tutors. Most of the pupils were on their 2nd or 3rd training days, along with one trainee on their first session. Some finishing off their bowl work training and now starting on spindle training whilst the others were already doing some spindle training, and one pupil just starting with the bowl work.
Continue reading “Report on our latest training day 19-05-2022.”Report on our meeting 12-05-2022, managed by David Ross.
Our meeting on Thursday 12th May 2022 was managed by David Ross, David had organised for 4 of the lathes to be working, 2 of which were given over to making vases, whilst the other 2 were taking part in our training programme as a one off for this meeting only. The 2 turners making the vases were David Hobson and Dave Line. David Ross was working on lathe nr1 with Alan Smith as part of the teaching programme, Errol Levings was on lathe nr3 with Jeff Buttress again as part of the teaching programme.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 12-05-2022, managed by David Ross.”Our next meeting 12-05-2022, Vase’s and small items.
Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 12th May 2022, it is being managed by David Ross and David will have all 5 lathes working. He has asked 3 of the demonstrators to make wooden Vase’s or some sort of smaller items, he is also using 2 of the lathes for some teaching practices as a one off for this particular meeting.
Continue reading “Our next meeting 12-05-2022, Vase’s and small items.”Report on our latest training evening 05-05-2022.
Our latest training evening was held on the 5th May 2022, it was attended by 4 trainees and 4 tutors. The training programme is managed by Nick Simpson, he welcomed everyone to the training session and outlined the present position in regards to Covid, he went on to give his usual safety information advice before commencing with the programme.
Continue reading “Report on our latest training evening 05-05-2022.”Report on our meeting 28-04-2022, Showtime.
Our meeting on Thursday 28th April 2022 was a Showtime meeting, it was managed by Peter Lawrence and compered by Alec Mutch. The participation from our members was excellent with 12 members showing a total of 46 items, the turn out for this meeting was very good and the response to the members showing their wares was also very good with a hearty round of applause for each of the participants as they completed their presentation.
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