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Report on our meeting 24-11-2022 A tribute to Cliff Sim.

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 next meeting 10-11-2022 managed by Peter Lawrence.

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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Report on our meeting 27-10-2022. Managed by John Ruickbie.

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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Our next meeting 13-10-2022, SHOWTIME.

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.

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Report on our meeting 15-09-2022, Making Goblets with Errol Levings.

Our meeting this week was all about making wooden Goblets, it was organised by Errol Levings as a solo demonstration on how to make a Goblet. Wooden Goblets is a speciality for Errol and he has demonstrated how to make them in the past, with the number of new members being high it was felt it was time to repeat some of the demonstrations we had done in the past.

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