Highland Woodturners Club (Scottish Charity SC053651)
Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 5th September 2024, it has been organized by Barry Cumming and Barry’s theme for this meeting is making Captive Rings. In addition to himself he will have at least 2 more turners working the lathes who will also be demonstrating the art of making captive rings.
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As a result of our Open Day we have a lot of new members who have joined our club, this has resulted in our Training arranger Nick Simpson starting a new programme of training to accommodate some of the new members who require some training.
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Our meeting on Thursday evening 22nd August 2024 was organized by Alec Mutch, this was a solo demonstration by myself on the theme of Off Centre or Multi Centre turning. As some of the equipment required to do this type of turning was not something that all turners would have as part of their kit I decided to do this demonstration on my own.
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Start Time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 22nd August 2024, organized by me and will be about off centre or multi centre work on the lathe. I have done this at a previous meeting but with all the changes in personnel in our club I felt this needed to be repeated.
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Our meeting on Thursday 8th August 2024 was another of our Shield Competitions. This one was organized by Nick Simpson and the criteria for this competition was all about Wooden Vases plus, meaning that there were certain additional criteria that were to be followed.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 8th August 2024, the main part of this meeting is one of our Shield Competitions, this part is being handled by Nick Simpson. Nick’s theme for this Competition is to make Wooden Vases and Wooden Flowers, Nick will be assisted by Susan Drew and the judges will be chosen from members of the club.
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Our meeting on Thursday 18th July 2024 was another of our Showtime meetings, this one’s presenter was Nick Simpson. These meetings are for the most part very successful and although the turnout was a little disappointing it turned out to be a very enjoyable meeting.
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Our next meeting is on Thursday 18th July 2024, it has been organized by Nick Simpson and it’s another of our Showtime meetings.
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Our meeting on Wednesday 3rd July 2024 was organized by Barry Cumming, Barry wanted to use this meeting to experiment with square or odd shaped bowls as he had not done any of these since he started woodturning. He then organized for 4 more turners to man all our lathes to demonstrate the methods used to make square or odd shaped bowls.
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Date and start time, Wednesday 3rd July 2024, 6.45pm, please note the change of date for our meeting, this is due to the Westminster Elections happening on the 4th July.
This meeting has been organized by Barry Cumming and Barry’s theme for the evening is making square bowls, these can be made in a variety of ways some of which you will see at the meeting. Barry has not ventured into making these types of bowls so far with his woodturning and I’m going to partly mentor him for his first square bowl with an audience. He has also arranged for 3 more turners to be involved with making a square bowl, 2 of which I know to be approached from completely different angles.
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