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Report on our meeting on Thursday 4th April 2019, using a bowl saver tool.

Our meeting on the 4th April 2019 was mainly about the use of a bowl saver tool, this tool gives the user the ability to take more than 1 bowl out of a single blank making it a very useful tool especially if the blank is quite unusual or expensive. David Hay was the demonstrator and he did an excellent job of demonstrating exactly how it worked. In addition to the bowl saver demonstration, David had also arranged for 3 more turners to work the lathes, all of these turners were doing different things on the lathes, Colin MacKenzie was making a shallow platter in native Elm, Douglas Stewart was making wooden fruit, he did an apple in Yew wood and a pear in Cherry wood, David Hobson was making finials out of a piece of Mahogany. The turnout was very good, the evening started with the committee having one of their regular meetings prior to the start of the main meeting.

This is David Hay using the bowl saver tool on the first of 2 cuts he would do with the tool. the wood David used was a highly spalted piece of Beech.
The first of David's cuts almost complete, to remove the centre required a small tap just to release it from the parent wood.
Another view of the tool in use, it's held by the tool post and the tail stock and the whole thing works on the pivot, to make the cut, the handle on the top is pulled towards yourself.
Here we have David showing the onlookers the piece he removed from the centre.
David went on to complete the inside to the first bowl.
The inside of the bowl completed.
This was the final front piece David removed with the bowl saver tool, he gave this piece to one of our turners to complete at home.
Here is David's completed bowl, a highly spalted piece of Beech.
This is Colin MacKenzie making a start on his Elm platter, Colin works a lot with tipped tools.
Another view of Colin as he works the outside rim with one of his tipped tools.
Here Colin can be seen starting the cuts on the inside of his platter, again using tipped tools.
Colin MacKenzie's finished platter, a very nice piece of Elm, the green streaks in the wood give the type of Elm away, this is Wych Elm and native to Scotland.
This is Douglas Stewart making a start on one of his 2 fruits, this is an Apple being made from a piece of Yew wood.
Here Douglas is making a Pear from a piece of Cherry wood using a spindle gouge.
Douglas's Pear being sanded prior to being removed from the lathe and the stalk inserted.
These are Douglas Stewart's completed fruits, the Cherry wood Pear and the Yew wood Apple.
Here we have David Hobson mounting a piece of Mahogany in the chuck to make some finials.
Here David has started to make the first of his cuts.
One of David's finials almost complete, it's been sealed and polished ready to cut off.
One of David's finished finials, he did go on to make another.

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