Woodbury Woodturners -

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

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

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

Welcome all, Please dont forget Emma cook will be here for the first of the invited guest speakers on 12th April 2025, 9am until 3pm

Well sorry its late but i needed to make sure that this ended up as the banner headline for the month

So March saw Tony Bennett provide us with a demonstration of how to turn fruit in time for the May Competition which is to "turn three pieces of fruit"

Again a reasonable turn out of people