Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
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.
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Our next meeting is on Thursday 3rd October 2024 and it’s our last of our shield Competitions for this year. This competition is all about Rocking Bowls in all 3 categories, the Novice and the Intermediate categories have to make a single Rocking Bowl, the Open category have to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls, they can be any size as long as they have a rounded base.
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Our latest Training day was on Thursday 26th September 2024, it was organized by our Training co-ordinator Nick Simpson who was also part of the Training team.
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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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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 19th September , it’s a solo presentation by Mark Sutton organized by Alan Geddes. Alan informed me that Mark’s presentation will have a Christmas theme although we have no further information on exactly what that might be.
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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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Our meeting on Thursday 5th September was organized by Barry Cumming, Barry’s theme for the meeting was making Captive Rings on our turnings. These are usually found on turnings that are between centres, things like Babies Rattles, Goblets , Wooden Mushrooms and various other turnings.
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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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