Author: Alec Mutch

Our meeting on Thursday 24th November was a tribute to our late treasurer Cliff Sim who died on the 5th September 2022. Cliff had been our treasurer for many years and was very well respected for everything that he did for the club. He was also very much involved with other clubs and organizations and treasurer to more than just our club. His death was very unexpected and he will be sadly missed not only by our club but also from the wider community.

Our meeting on Thursday 10th November 2022 was organised and managed by Peter Lawrence, Peter had arranged for Roddy Ross a local professional chainsaw operator to give us a talk and demonstration on all aspects of chainsaw use, including the use of safety gear.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 10th November 2022, it’s going to be a talk and demonstration on the safe use of a chain saw. Peter has organised for Roddy Ross a professional chain saw user to give our club some guidance on the use and maintenance of a chain saw, this will also include the safety protection gear recommended when using a chain saw.

Our meeting this week on Thursday 27th October was managed by John Ruickbie, John did this presentation as a solo event, his theme for the presentation was how to make Staved Construction items, in lay mans terms how to make use of Barrel making techniques in woodturning. There wouldn’t be a lot of turning in this presentation as most of what John put forward was more to do with how to construct an item for turning that used Staved Construction methods.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is being managed and presented by John Ruickbie, John is going to be working with Staved Construction, this method involves using strips of wood machined to given angles along their length in order to create a cylinder when assembled.

This would be our last SHOWTIME meeting for 2022, it was held on Thursday evening 13th October 2022, the purpose of the Showtime meetings was to see and hear about what the members were making.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting on the 13th October 2022 is another SHOWTIME meeting, this will be the last SHOWTIME meeting for 2022, so let us have a good show with lots of entries. The meeting is managed by Alan Geddes with me being the compere. The usual criteria apply, bring along anything that you have made and let the members see it or them as you can bring more than one item, you can also have the opportunity to talk about what you have made.

Our latest meeting was on Thursday 29th September 2022, it was Finishing part 2, a follow on from a meeting we held in July with Finishing part 1. This meeting was managed by Nick Simpson where he showed and explained some of his alternative finishes, taking things away from what would be considered normal finishes.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 29th September 2022, this is the follow on from the meeting on Finishing we did in July of this year. The main part of this meeting will be managed by Nick Simpson and possibly a small part from me. However the thrust of Nick’s presentation will be on various other ways to create a finish.