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Club Demonstration 7th March 2019, working with Pebeo paints.

Our club meeting on Thursday 7th March 2019 was a demonstration by Alec Mutch on the use of Pebeo paints in woodturning. These paints can be used to enhance the appearance of an otherwise plain or bland piece of wood, making their use very valuable. The following set of pictures will take you through the making of a shallow plate and also the paints being put to use. Most of the pictures were taken by Richard Comfort with a few of my own taken at my workshop. The turnout for the meeting was excellent.

A blank of Beech on the lathe, ready to start my shallow plate.
The first cuts being taken, this levelled up the bottom.
Now I'm forming the recess in the base for mounting on a chuck when I come to do the inside.
The chuck recess formed and I have also started to form the shape of the underside, you will also see I have marked out where the foot will be.
Now I'm finishing off the shape on the outside.
With the shape complete, some sanding was required, I use the Powerlock system for most of my sanding, here the inside of the chuck recess is being sanded.
I changed the size of the sanding disc to sand the remainder of the outside.
With the sanding complete on the outside, I applied a coat of sanding sealer and flattened with steel wool.
A coat of Melamine was used for the final finish, here I'm buffing the Melamine to a soft glow.
Now for the inside, the blank now mounted on a chuck that fits inside the recess.
The first job is to flatten the face then to form the area where the Pebeo paint has to go, it should be about 3mm deep, the width is up to you.
Now I am removing the waste from the inside of my shallow plate.
As the depth increases do check for thickness over the recess area, you do not want to go through the bottom.
With the shape and depth finished on the inside, the whole of the inside can be sanded.
A coat of sealer has been applied and the inside flattened with wire wool.
A final coat of Melamine finishes the plate, here I'm just buffing the finish to a soft glow.
If you use a spigot for the base, it will need to be removed, this is done with a set of bowl jaws. Here I'm sanding the base after removing the spigot.
The sanded base, seal and polish using the same method as for the rest of the plate.
For this Maple plate I did the painting at the club,I used Pebeo Vitrail dark green for the base with Pebeo Moon apricot on top.
For this Lime plate I used 2 colours of Pebeo Prisme, red and purple, this type of paint gives the honeycomb effect after a few hours.
These were the Pebeo paints I used at the club along with some white spirit for cleaning the tools.
The Beech plate I made at the club, the base coat of Pebeo Vitrail dark green was applied using a pipette to a depth of 2 mm.
The Pebeo Moon apricot now about to be applied, I use a marked out piece of paper to help with the positioning of the spots of Moon paint.
This is how it looked after applying the Pebeo Moon apricot, there is no waiting time before applying the Moon paint.

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Competition report from 21-02-2019

Our competition on the 21st February 2019 was all about making a turned box. The number of entries for the novice group were very good, as was the number of entries for the experienced group, however the intermediate group had far fewer entries, this has a lot to do with the way the groupings are arrived at and that is something the club is going to address for future competitions. The standard of work in all 3 groups was excellent which made the judging very difficult, it was hard to pick a winner, the judging was done by Alec Mutch and Gordon Leitch. The pictures for the competition were taken by Alec Mutch. In addition to the competition all of our 5 lathes were in operation during the whole event with the turners doing their own things, 2 of those turners were on the lathes for the first time at the club. The pictures for these turners were taken by Alec Mutch and Phil Moore.

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These were the entries for the Novice group.
These were the entries for the Intermediate group.
These were the entries for the Experienced group
The winner of the Novice group, a lime box made by Mark Dale.
The winner of the Intermediate group, Ash & Mahogany box made by Dave Line.
The winner of the Experienced group. Purpleheart, Beech & Cherry Made by Errol Levings.
Free turner Vicky Pocock as she makes a start on a small Sycamore bowl.
Free turner Colin MacKenzie as he makes a start on making wooden pens.

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2019 AGM report.

Our AGM on Thursday 7th February 2019 went very well. We had a very good turnout of members and all the existing committee members were present. The chairman made an opening statement, followed by the secretary presenting the minutes of the previous AGM. The chairman did a report on the years events, that was followed by the treasurer giving a report on the financial status. Topics discussed were , the constitution, skype and the internet, membership fees and training fees. As the committee had shrunk to just 7, we voted a few more members onto the committee taking it back up to 12. There were a few items raised under A.O.B. that the chair announced would be discussed at the first committee meeting.

Pictured here at the start of the meeting, Left, Cliff Sim, Treasurer. centre, Alec Mutch, Chairman. right, Peter Lawrence, secretary.
Here I am opening the meeting, welcoming everyone to the meeting.
Here are some of the members reading Peter's minutes report.
In this picture Cliff Sim (treasurer) is reading his financial report to the meeting, copies of his report were handed out to the meeting.
One of the votes in progress for the new members of the committee.
Another of the votes taking place.

The committee would like to thank all of you who attended the AGM. For a larger picture and some more information, click any of the pictures.

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Club meeting on Thursday 24th January 2019.

Our club meeting on Thursday evening 24th January 2019 was a one to one meeting, where an experienced member would take a less experienced member through the process of doing something that they find challenging, this could be some element of turning or it could be sharpening the tools. We had 3 lathes in operation and the sharpening station. Bill Munro was showing Dave Line some of the finer points of spindle turning. Errol Levings was doing long hole boring with Graham Charge, (Graham is a new member to our club). David Hay was at the sharpening station demonstrating the art of sharpening, we had asked the members to bring in a tool to get reground or sharpened, suffice to say David was kept very busy. Lastly I Alec Mutch was demonstrating the use of a bowl gouge with Bill Henderson, Bill has been using tipped tools thus far but now felt it was time to try and use the gouge. The turn out of members was very good and the evening went very well, Peter Lawrence was the manager for this session.

Here we have Bill Henderson making his first cuts on a bowl blank using a bowl gouge, being supervised by myself.
Here we have Dave Line working on spindle turning, Dave was being supervised by Bill Munro.
Here we have David Hay at the sharpening station, being observed by some of the members.
David was kept very busy sharpening and regrinding members tools after the members were encouraged to bring in a tool to sharpen.
Here we have Errol Levings about to show Graham Charge the method used for long hole boring.
Here Errol is about to start the lathe after positioning the long hole boring tool to start the hole.
I have picked up some of the shavings after Bill made a few cuts, these shavings were exactly what is required to achieve a good finish.
Here Bill Munro is guiding Dave Line as he make his cuts.
A close up of Dave Line's cuts, note the ribbon like shavings, exactly what's required to achieve a good finish.
Bill now taking some cuts across the face of the blank, he was growing in confidence with every cut.
David sharpening a tool on the belt sharpener, being observed by some of the members.
A closer view of how David holds the tool as it's being sharpened, note the position of the tool guide above the belt.
Here Graham Charge is using the long hole boring tool, being observed by some of the members.
Graham making headway with the tool.
Dave Line working on the shaft of a goblet, here he is getting close to completion.
Dave line sanding the stem of the goblet.
Here Dave line is being supervised on the use of a parting tool to cut the goblet free, Bill Munro is ready to assist if needed.
A view inside the club premises with the members watching all the different turners at work.
This was as far as we got with the bowl turning, time ran out on us, however Bill Henderson said he would try one at home now.
Dave Line with his finished goblet.

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All the pictures were taken by Mike Day

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Christmas Competition & raffle draw.

A view of some of the many prizes on offer.
Another view of the prizes, Colin McRae (seated) was handling the prize giving along with Jim Kelman who did the draw.
These were the entries for the “Novice” category.
These were the entries for the “Intermediate” category.
These were the entries for the “Experienced” category.
This was the winning entry in the “Novice” category, the winner was Winston Amos.
This was the winning entry in the “Intermediate” category, the winner was Bill Henderson.
This was the winning entry in the “Experienced” category, the winner was David Ross.
Other winners in each category who were awarded a shield for the points based system for all entries in all the competitions for the year 2018 were,
Novice     David Line.
Intermediate    David Hobson.
Experienced     David Hay.

Congratulations to all the winners.

We hope to see even more entries in the competitions in the coming year 2019.
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Christmas Decorations 6th Dec 2018

These are the pictures from our last club meeting held on Thursday evening 6th December 2018. There were 5 lathes in operation and the theme for the evening was to make Christmas Decorations. 5 turners were scheduled to do the decorations but one turner had to withdraw due to unforseen circumstances, David Ross did an impromptu session replacing the absent turner.

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These were some of the items made by the turners at our meeting of 6th Dec 2018.
A view of some of the members as the meeting got under way.
David Hay makes a start on his snowmen projects, David was to complete 2 and almost finish a 3rd.
David Sanding the first of his snowmen.
Here he can be seen fitting a nose and some eyes to his snowmen, he also scorched some detail on it\'s hat.
A better view of one of his snowmen, all that remains is for it to be parted off.
David brought along some snowmen he had made earlier by way of examples for the members to see.
These were the snowmen David made at the meeting, 2 complete and 1 he would need to finish at home.
This is Bob Chisholm making a start on his 2 projects, Bob was to make a Christmas tree and a candle holder.
Here work is progressing on his Christmas tree.
A closer view showing bob's handling of a bowl gouge, the bowl gouge will remove material far quicker than a spindle gouge.
Here Bob is cleaning up the base of his Christmas tree prior to taking it off the lathe.
Bob is now working on his 2nd project the candle holder, here he can be seen drilling the hole for the candle.
Bob's 2 finished items, the tree could be coloured and some glitter added to give the effect of snow.
Douglas Stewart making a start on his projects, Douglas was to make wooden bells.
The outside shape of his wooden bell taking shape.
Here Douglas is almost complete with the shape of his first bell.
Now the bell is almost ready to be parted off.
With the bell parted off, Douglas would go on to fit a little clanger to the inside.
Here are the finished bells complete with ribbons and a display stick.
A close up of Douglas's finished bells.
David Ross (on the right) is showing one of the members the correct use of a gouge. David did an impromptu intervention after one of the member had to withdraw.
Here David is showing how to use a gouge on end grain with some of the members looking on.
Here David is explaining to a very young enthusiast the art of woodturning.

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