Category: General News

Our meeting on Thursday 30th September 2021 was a Showtime meeting, this is a meeting where all our members were invited to show anything they had made over the past few weeks, as this was the first Showtime meeting we were able to have since the shut down in March 2020 we extended the showtime to anything they had made that they still had.

Its showtime once more, and the first showtime we have arranged after the re-start of our regular meetings. The purpose of the showtime meetings is to let other members of the club see what you have been up to since the shut down, as the time closed was about 18 months you must all have plenty of things you have made over that period of time, now is the time to share them with the rest of our members. There is no limit on the amount of items you could bring to the showtime, we will assess how many each person can show once we see the number of items being shown. It would be good if during the showing of your work you could give the members a commentary on what you made.

Our meeting on Thursday 16th September 2021 was a demonstration by John Ruickbie, John was to make a bandstand clock using some slats from whisky barrel staves. John had brought along a finished example along with some of the stave material, he explained that these were not square nor were they straight and that they had also been scorched on the inside, all of this presented some problems when mounting them on the lathe, John had made up some jigs to help overcome some of these problems. John also knew the time allocated for the demonstration would not be enough for the entire project to be completed so he did some of the preparation work at home and would show and explain how it was done as he went through the procedure.

Our next club meeting is on Thursday 16th September 2021, start time of 6.45pm. The meeting is to be a demonstration by John Ruickbie and John will be making a clock using some whisky barrel staves. John will be doing a solo demonstration with all the members seated, face masks will be optional whilst seated.

This was our first meeting after the pandemic restrictions were lifted that turning was involved, and it was good to be back in operation again. We have made some changes within the club to make it much safer for everyone to return, this included installing some ventilation fans and a CO2 monitor, and to combat any dust issues, we are currently installing a full dust extraction system to all the lathes and the bandsaw.

Our meeting on Thursday 2nd September 2021 will be in Munlochy, start time of 6.45pm.

Yes this is our first actual meeting where turning will be demonstrated after a very long shut down. I will be doing the demonstration, I’m going to make a thin walled end grain goblet made from a branch of fairly wet wood and leaving the top as natural edged as possible. To do this you will need to make up some sort of light assistance as you will see, and the procedure for turning this type of goblet is not what you might expect, all will be revealed on the night.

Our meeting this week on Thursday5th August 2021 was all about making wooden toys, the meeting was organised by Mike Day and Mike chose the subject matter, wooden toys. Mike also suggested that the toys could be made using some mobile parts to them, other than that he left the decision on what to make very much up to yourself.

Our next club meeting should be on Thursday 5th August 2021, however this meeting has been made into a virtual meeting due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. The meeting is being organised by Mike Day and Mike’s theme for this meeting is to make wooden toys, any kind of wooden toys, turned or otherwise but what Mike would really like to see are toys with moving parts. He would also like to see a large entry for this meeting, so you are all being invited to make at least one toy, more if you can manage that, the past few weeks have seen a very small involvement from our members, lets not continue with this poor approach Mike and I want to see lots and lots of entries.

Our meeting this week on Thursday 22nd July 2021 was to make something that had a captive ring or rings. The meeting was organised by Errol Levings and it was Errol’s idea to put the project matter forward. The meeting had to done virtually due to the ongoing Covid 19 restrictions. You were all invited to take part, any item could be made, it could have been a goblet with a ring or rings or a mushroom, a vase, a candlestick anything at all the only important part was it had to incorporate a ring or rings.