Next Meeting. Thursday 3rd April 6.45pm.
Joint venture by Alan Geddes and Nick Simpson. 1st Shield Competition for 2025 handled by Nick Simpson. The subject matter for the competition is Money Boxes.
Continue reading “Our next meeting.”Highland Woodturners Club (Scottish Charity SC053651)
Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Joint venture by Alan Geddes and Nick Simpson. 1st Shield Competition for 2025 handled by Nick Simpson. The subject matter for the competition is Money Boxes.
Continue reading “Our next meeting.”Our latest meeting on Thursday 20th March was a solo presentation by Dave Line on the art of Segmented or Polychromatic assemblies. This art relies on using many pieces of woods of various colours that have to be cut to very accurate tolerances in order to make some of the items featured here.
Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 20-03-2025 a solo presentation by Dave Line.”Our meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025 was a demonstration by Mark Sutton on the art of making boxes.
After being introduced by our new chairman, Mark gave the meeting a short history about his turning. He was a founding member of this club that started in 2006 and is still a member today. His involvement in the demonstration circuit came about by Alec asking Mark to do demonstrations at our premises. This led on to him doing demonstrations elsewhere . Mark always comes back to his roots in the club when invited to do a demonstration.
Continue reading “Report by Alec Mutch on our meeting 06-03-2025. Organized by David Hobson.”We are expecting this to be a demonstration by one of our members on box making
Please have a look at the programme by selecting this link:
Programme for 2025 : subject to adjustment and confirmation.
The minutes for the board meeting are available in the Club documents section of the site.
Organized by Barry Cumming.
Start time 6.45pm.
Barry’s theme for the meeting is spindle turning or working between centres.
Barry has all 5 lathes allocated for this meeting.
Usual raffles will also be on sale.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Held on 06-02-2025.
Our AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held on Thursday 6th February 2025, there were the usual reports from the Chairman and the Treasurer, but the main part of the meeting was to firstly to dissolve the current committee and elect the new committee for the period February 25 to February 26.
Continue reading “Report on our AGM (Annual General Meeting).”Our meeting on Thursday 23rd January was organized by Nick Simpson and Nick’s theme for the meeting was Deep Bowl Hollowing. He had all 5 lathes in operation all doing various things but with hollowing being the main theme.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 23-01-2025 organized by Nick Simpson.”Start time 6-45pm.
I was extremely disappointed to have to cancel the previous meeting on account of the weather, although the main roads were kept relatively clear the side roads were very bad, as was the car parks in the village, it was this aspect that determined whether or not the meeting could go ahead more than anything else, I felt the hall car park in particular and the short walk to the clubhouse door were dangerous and that meant we had to cancel.
Continue reading “Meeting 23-01-2025 organized by Nick Simpson.”