Woodbury Woodturners Club

August Annual Show

Friday 29th August 2025

By Richard Stupples

Congratulation Trevor Druett for best in show

And the visitors choice was John Welton

In case your wondering why this has been redone, I was advised Id assigned a photo to the wrong competitor

September we have two visiting wood turners

Dave Appleby is coming on the evening of the 16th September

and Phil Irons is coming for an all day demonstration on the 27th September

We are also at Westpoint for the 3 days, 25th to 27th September 

And whilst I talk about the club meetings, we are starting to look at next years competitions, what would you like, your answers to any committee member but Stephen Long is the member who will  be bringing it together, but its your club and if you don't tell us what you like to make then you get the committees choices.

August was our Annual Show

Congratulations to all for their entries

The results were

The Bowl or Platter

Beginner

1st to Kevin Sessions

2nd to Charles Woods

3rd to Ian Fraser-Roe

Intermediate

1st place and the Kevin Morgan Trophy to Thomas Smith

2nd place to Rosemary Walsh

3rd place to Paul Reeder

Advanced

1st place to Roger Hutton

2nd place to Trevor Druett

3rd place to Stephen Long

The Open Class

Beginner

1st place and the Bill Bolt Trophy to Mike Evershed

2nd place to Kevin Sessions

3rd place to Ian Fraser-Roe

Intermediate

1st place to Thomas Smith

2nd place to John Welton

3rd place to Rosemary Walsh

Advanced

1st place to Roger Upchurch

2nd place to Trevor Druett

3rd place to Stephen Long

The Three Leg Stool

Beginner

1st place to Roy Stevenson

Intermediate

1st place to Rosemary Walsh

2nd place to Paul Reeder

3rd place to Richard Burston

Advanced

1st place to Peter Johnson

2nd place to Richard Pegler

3rd place to Keith Wilson

A Coloured Item

Beginner

1st place to Ian Fraser-Roe

2nd place to Charles Woods

3rd place to Mike Evershed

Intermediate

1st place to Thomas Smith

2nd place to Richard Burston

3rd place to Paul Reeder

Advanced

1st place to Trevor Druett 

2nd place to Carl Haslem

3rd place to John Rockey

and just a couple of images of the entries

July Club night report

Thursday 31st July 2025

By Richard Stupples

The Summer Barbecue. I have to extend a big thank you to those on the committee who worked hard to provide a successful evening with a special mention to Mike Gall for both providing the barbecue equipment and doing the cooking, anyway I digress, if you weren't there sorry you missed it and if you were I'm pleased that you enjoyed it

So to the main topic of the evening

Graham Drury provided us with a video demonstration of how to make wooden animals

Graham started with a dachshund

Showing us first how the legs were drilled

and a jig made to provide consistant productivity 

The body was then turned and graham uses a finger chuck just to enable the finish on the ends of the body 

from there our attention was to the legs and Graham here turned all four legs from one piece of wood

The neck was then turned and inserted

and the head made to fit

now i cheated here and used the drilling of the tail to illustrate the neck, that's because photos taken on an electronic image don't come out that well and I didn't like the image taken to illustrate the project. so the last bit is the tail which is drilled at the angle by using the jig shown. I don't know if the jig also had another purpose but if you compare the neck photo with the original image of the dachshund at the start of the report then you can see the end result of achieving the tail at an angle.

Whilst we were having a coffee we were treated to a slide show of some of the animals that Graham had made which were also on the table to look at

At the same time we were also shown a reversible chuck for making the shell of a snail

This brilliant piece of engineering could also be used to turn the eyes in an owls head as an alternative use to the making of the snail shell.

After coffee then we were shown how to make a giraffe 

Again the body was predrilled

This time with wedges in the jig to provide both a splay outward and forward / backward depending on if it was a front or back leg

having turned the body and all parts are fitted by dowels rather than straight socket into the hole, the legs are then turned in pairs front and back.

note the hole in the top of the leg for the dowel once the pair were made then the hip end was shaped on a drum sander to fit the body of the giraffe

same with the neck

then the head was fitted to the neck, and 

then we moved onto the ears and horns and again each piece was turned and match paired and fitted to the head.

The tail was carved and the animal was decorated to finish

June Club Night report

Thursday 26th June 2025

By Richard Stupples

Jason Breach came and demonstrated on Thursday 19th June

Jason is well known for his boxes however tonight he chose to demonstrate something different

Jason chose to demonstrate an off centre bowl rather a box 

starting with a blank, two holes were drilled , suitable for a screw chuck, 20mm apart, with one being in the centre

The bowl is trued on the centre hole initially to just give a finish to the rim. which is then painted with blackboard paint - for those interested Rustins blackboard paint is the recommended

The blank is then recentred to the offset hole and the bowl has then been shaped to allow the chucking foot to be cut and the bowl formed leaving the "wing"

once the underside of the wing is cut and the chuck foot set the bowl is taken out and reversed allowing the bowls rim to be cut - note to those following this step by step, its useful for the tailstock marks to be left in at this stage to be able to recentre the bowl later

so then its about getting the top and bottom of the bowl to match to give the continuity of the bowl shape through the piece

Checking both the evenness of the rim and how the two sections line up through the wing

A light sand to finish off the process of creating the rim.

then hollowing the bowl

getting the bowl walls uniformly cut to follow the outside and giving them a finish sand

 Once the bowl is shaped and finished then it is cup chucked, Jason used mdf layered to create a cup chuck which had a plywood base as the original mdf one didn't stay stable very long

the tailstock brought back up into place and the chuck foot removed - note the electrical tape holding the bowl in place

and finished - nice trick there , using some of the shavings in the folded sand paper to dissipate some of the heat as well as give the sandpaper a more natural curve

the bowl was reversed again and a small wedge held the bowl at an angle to allow the rim to be recut, this wedge was set against the small wing so as not to stress the wood

A good attendance on the evening with over 46 people in attendance

May 2025 Club Night Report

Friday 23rd May 2025

By Richard Stupples

We had a competition round with voting going on whilst John Haxell provided us with a demonstration of how to turn a wheeled vehicle. Which is in preparation for the Christmas club competition

John started by showing how to turn the body of the car, which was predrilled to provide a place to attach the wheel axles and the body of the driver

John then proceeded to show us various methods he used to produce the the wheels

everything from using a hole saw to provide simple round wheels

and turning a spindle to use as an axle

as well as putting the wheels on a designed chuck to allow them to be shaped and patterned according to the vehicle being made

John also discussed free running spindles opposed to a fixed spindle

John them passed round a partially completed car whilst we had coffee

Coffee was served and thanks for those that do this every month

and whilst we enjoyed refreshments and chatted voting for the nights competition took place

John then got our attention by showing a piece that he had already made along similar lines

Then John showed us how to complete the project by turning the cars driver

The club competition winners were

Carl Haslam in the advanced class

Richard Renshaw in the intermediate class

Keith Denning in the beginners class

Next meeting is the 19th June where we have a demonstration from Jason Breach followed closely by our annual barbecue on the 21st June. Please ask Richard Pegler for tickets. 

Can you please note that there is no raffle on the 19th June

April Club Night

Tuesday 6th May 2025

By Richard Stupples

Stephen Long demonstrated the process he uses to make a stool

Starting by turning the seat - Stephen used a spacer to be able to mount the seat of the stool on the lathe without creating too deep a hole in the timber

The blank was roughed out but not finished as it was intended that the legs come through the top prior to finish sanding

The legs marked out and started drilling

the jig used to ensure the holes were all in the same place and at the correct angle

legs turned between centres and the position of the decoration added from a jig whilst the beads were turned using a specially shaped scraper

slots cut in the top and contrasting wedges provided a finish to the piece

The project was drawn from an article, entitled Windsor style stool leg and the leg sizes were given as

Our next demonstration is John Haxell who is doing a demonstration of a wheeled toy and there is the club competition - Please be aware that this is about three separate pieces of fruit that are different so not three of a kind