Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Start time 6.45pm.
Our meeting on Thursday 18th January 2024 has been organized by Nick Simpson, Nick’s theme for the meeting is for all 5 lathes to be manned and making various styles of wooden Trinket Boxes.
I’m sure we will see a few different approaches on how to make these boxes, Nick has also suggested the boxes could be decorated or made from various different woods, laminated or embellished in some way.
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Our meeting on Thursday 4th January 2024 was organized by Geoff Potter, Geoff’s theme for the evening was making bowls and platters. Geoff had arranged for 4 turners plus himself to man all the club lathes, however one of the turners was a no show so the meeting went ahead with 4 turners.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 4th January 2024, it’s being organized by Geoff Potter and Geoff’s theme for this meeting is making Bowls, Shallow Bowls and Platters. Geoff has enlisted the help of 4 more turners plus himself to man all the lathes.
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Our last meeting of the year on the 14th December 2023 was a triple purpose meeting, hosting both the Annual Christmas Competition and our traditional bumper raffle draw. It was also at this meeting that the winners of the Shield Competitions held throughout the year was to be announced.
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Our meeting on Thursday 7th December 2023 was organized by Alan Smith, Alan’s theme for the meeting was using green wood (I.E. un-seasoned wood ). He had arranged for all 5 of the club lathes to be in use, with 4 club members plus himself doing the demonstrating.
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Start time 6.45pm
Our meeting on Thursday 7th December has been organized by Alan Smith, Alan’s theme for this meeting is working with green wood. He has arranged for all 5 of the club lathes to be manned, he will be on one lathe with 4 more turners working the other lathes.
Continue reading “Our next meeting 07-12-2023, organized by Alan Smith.”The committee minutes from the 9th November 2023 are now available in the Club Documents section
Our meeting on Thursday 23rd November 2023 was organized by Susan Drew, Susan’s theme for the meeting was making wooden toys, she had arranged for there to be 4 more turners plus herself on all 5 of the club’s lathes.
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Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 23rd November 2023, it has been organized by Susan Drew, she has arranged for all 5 lathes to be working and her theme for the evening is making wooden toys. With Christmas not too far away this should be a very interesting programme for you all to see.
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Our meeting on Thursday 9th November 2023 was our 3rd Shield Competition for 2023, it was originally organized by Nick Simpson, however due to unforeseen circumstances Nick had to miss the meeting, he did delegate the responsibilities to David Hobson, who in turn was assisted by Susan Drew and Dave Hutcheson.
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