Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Held on 06-02-2025.
Our AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held on Thursday 6th February 2025, there were the usual reports from the Chairman and the Treasurer, but the main part of the meeting was to firstly to dissolve the current committee and elect the new committee for the period February 25 to February 26.
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Our meeting on Thursday 23rd January was organized by Nick Simpson and Nick’s theme for the meeting was Deep Bowl Hollowing. He had all 5 lathes in operation all doing various things but with hollowing being the main theme.
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Start time 6-45pm.
I was extremely disappointed to have to cancel the previous meeting on account of the weather, although the main roads were kept relatively clear the side roads were very bad, as was the car parks in the village, it was this aspect that determined whether or not the meeting could go ahead more than anything else, I felt the hall car park in particular and the short walk to the clubhouse door were dangerous and that meant we had to cancel.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 9th January 2025. It has been organized by myself (Alec Mutch) and the subject matter is working with Natural Edges or inclusions, that could mean a piece of faceplate work or something made between centres, as long as some of the natural elements are left on the item that’s being made will fulfil the criteria.
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Our meeting on Thursday 12th December 2024 was our last meeting for 2024, it culminated in also being the last Competition for 2024, a stand alone Competition where anyone can enter anything they had made this year.
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Start Time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is the last meeting for 2024, and will be held on Thursday evening 12th December 2024. It’s our annual Competition for the MacGregor shield, a stand alone competition where everyone can enter as many pieces as they wish, the rules of the competition have already been distributed to all the members by email, here is a short version of these rules,
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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.
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START TIME 6-30PM.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 28th November 2024. It’s being organized by Alan Smith and was originally set out with all 5 lathes in use, each of them doing their own thing, however due to bad weather the training session booked for the 21st November got cancelled.
Continue reading “Meeting 28-11-2024, it’s being organized by Alan Smith.”Minutes from the meeting on 14th November are available in the Club Minutes & Documents page
Our meeting on Thursday 14th November was arranged by Susan Drew, Susan had chosen Pyrography as her theme for the meeting. Over the past few years since Susan had joined our club she had shown various items in competitions and in general that she had decorated using a Pyrography machine, these were all very well received by the turners, so much so that she was requested to do a session demonstrating her art.
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