Category: Meetings

This has been re-scheduled for FEBRUARY 16th due to bad weather

Start time 6.45pm

Our meeting this week, Thursday 19th January 2023 is going to be a quiz, based on the Pub quiz format, it is being managed by Nick Simpson and assisted by David Hobson. The questions will be on various subjects, mainly to do with wood or woodturning but there will be some questions on trivia and other subjects.

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Our meeting on Thursday 5th January 2023 was a demonstration by John Ruickbie, John was to demonstrate the making of a Natural Edged Clock, he would use 3 separate pieces of wood to make his clock, a main piece that held all the clock parts, a smaller base piece and a cover piece to hide the clock movement.

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Start time 6-45pm

Firstly, A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our members and to all the followers of our site and facebook page.

Our meeting this week is on Thursday 5th January 2023, it’s being managed by John Ruickbie as a solo presentation, John will be making a clock from more than one piece of wood and will also be leaving some of the natural edges in his design.

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Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is on the 8th December 2022, it’s the start of our competitions again after a long period of having no competitions due to the pandemic. Our last competition held at our club was at the Christmas meeting of 2019.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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