Highland Woodturners Club (Scottish Charity SC053651)
Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Our meeting on Thursday 12th December 2024 was our last meeting for 2024, it culminated in also being the last Competition for 2024, a stand alone Competition where anyone can enter anything they had made this year.
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Start Time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is the last meeting for 2024, and will be held on Thursday evening 12th December 2024. It’s our annual Competition for the MacGregor shield, a stand alone competition where everyone can enter as many pieces as they wish, the rules of the competition have already been distributed to all the members by email, here is a short version of these rules,
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Our meeting on Thursday 28th November was a joint venture by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson, Alan was in charge of the exhibition lathes, one, two and four, Nick was overseeing lathes three and five as part of the training programme.
Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 28-11-2024. Organized by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson as a joint venture into both exhibition work and training.”
START TIME 6-30PM.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 28th November 2024. It’s being organized by Alan Smith and was originally set out with all 5 lathes in use, each of them doing their own thing, however due to bad weather the training session booked for the 21st November got cancelled.
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Our meeting on Thursday 14th November was arranged by Susan Drew, Susan had chosen Pyrography as her theme for the meeting. Over the past few years since Susan had joined our club she had shown various items in competitions and in general that she had decorated using a Pyrography machine, these were all very well received by the turners, so much so that she was requested to do a session demonstrating her art.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 14-11-2024 organized by Susan Drew.”
Start Time 6.45 pm.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 14th November 2024, it’s being organized by Susan Drew and Susan’s theme for the meeting is to make use of a Pyrography tool to embellish her woodturnings. Susan has an excellent touch when it comes to using a Pyrography machine, something she hopes to pass on to some of the club turners. We as turners don’t seem to have the magic touch that Susan has for this very delicate art, but it is something we all appreciate and would like to emulate.
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We had another training day on Thursday 7th November 2024, organised by Nick Simpson, there were 5 pupils with 5 turners doing various stages of woodturning, also present was our safety observer for this tutorial Mark Sutton and Susan Drew who kindly agreed to take a few pictures of the proceedings.
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Our meeting on Thursday 31st October was the last of our Showtime meetings for this year, it was handled by Keith Brown, once a number was given to each person for each item being shown, Keith then picked out a number at random for who was up first and to follow. Most had single entries but there were a few that had more than one entry and we do like to encourage the members to enter more than one item.
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Our next meeting is on Thursday 31st October 2024.
Start Time. 6-45pm.
The Showtime meeting are usually very well received and participation is always very good, we hope this meeting will be no different. For those new to the club we invite you all to bring in anything that you have made that you are pleased with or have a story to tell about any item, it can even be something that has gone wrong that you would like to know if it can be salvaged and why it went wrong in the first place. Keith will call you out when it’s your turn to show your item or items, and yes you can bring more than one item to show, in fact, more the merrier.
Continue reading “Our next meeting, 31-10-2024 The last of our Showtime meetings for 2024, organized by Keith Brown.”
Our latest training evening was on Thursday 24th October 2024.
The programme was arranged by Nick Simpson our training organizer, all 5 lathes were in use with 5 pupils along with 5 tutors, Nick on this occasion was to be our safety observer. The session went very well with all the pupils making headway in their turnings, we did have a couple of very small reminders in regards to safety, something that is taken very seriously at the club, it just gave us a reminder not to be complacent.
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