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Our meeting on Thursday 28th November was a joint venture by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson, Alan was in charge of the exhibition lathes, one, two and four, Nick was overseeing lathes three and five as part of the training programme.

Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 28-11-2024. Organized by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson as a joint venture into both exhibition work and training.”

Start time 7.00pm.

This meeting has been called by your committee to discuss and vote on the proposed change to our club by becoming a charity. This change to a charity has certain advantages for the club which will all be explained at the meeting. If approved there will be a new constitution which we have already posted on our web site, it’s largely similar in structure but goes into much more detail, do take a look.

Continue reading “Our next meeting on 17-10-2024. An EGM (Extra General Meeting.”

Our meeting on Thursday 3rd October 2024 was the last of our Shield Competitions for this year, it was organized by Nick Simpson and Rocking Bowls was the theme for this Competition. The Novice and Intermediate groups were required to make just one Rocking Bowl, the Open group had to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls.

Continue reading “Report on our meeting 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.”

Our meeting on Thursday 19th September 2024 was organized by Alan Geddes, he had invited Mark Sutton to do a solo presentation on the theme of Christmas. Mark is one of the founding members of this club when it started in 2005 and has remained a member ever since, holding various positions on the committee over the years.

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Our latest training day was on Thursday evening 12-09-2024.

All our training days are organized by Nick Simpson our training co-ordinator.

There were 5 trainees along with 5 tutors on all our lathes, 4 of them were on their 2nd training session with 1 person on their 1st session. The training is usually split into 4 sessions, 2 with faceplate or bowl work sessions and 2 spindle or between centres turning, with the pupil doing lots of practice between sessions, it’s normal to set them free from the tuition after they have had 4 sessions. Some of them may go on to receive advanced tuition at a later date, our training also deals with very specialised turning as well as what’s considered normal.

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Report on our OPEN DAY held on the 10th August 2024.

We arranged an OPEN DAY on the 10th August 2024 to be held in the main arena of the Munlochy Village hall. The purpose of the OPEN DAY was to try to raise enough money to help purchase a Defibrillator for our club in the Hall’s basement where we meet.

Continue reading “Highland Woodturners Club OPEN DAY.”

There is no meeting this week, our next meeting is on the 8th August 2024.

The next meeting is one of the Shield Competitions, the meeting is being handled by Nick Simpson and the subject matter for the competition is Wooden Vases Plus. You still have plenty time to make something to put into the competition so here are the rules for the competition, Novice Group are required to make a single Vase of any size and shape. The Intermediate Group are required to make a Vase that can hold water. The Open Group are required to make a Vase with 2 or more additional wooden flowers.

Continue reading “Next meeting reminder, 08-08-2024.”