Oct 30th 2024
This month’s demonstrator was Steve Heeley, Steve is a renowned Turner and a member of the Registry of Professional Turners. Steve Heeley Woodturner The October demonstration did not start off too well, as there was an issue with the cameras. The issue was that our...
Oct 8th 2024
Report for September 2024 demonstration by Dennis Wake A Three part raised bowl. Our demonstrator for the evening was Denis Wake but before we started, our chairman Ritchie announced that at the November meeting we will be running an Auction in aid of club funds the...
Jul 28th 2024
It was a full house for our meeting with 44 members and 1 possible new member. It’s great to see the club growing each month and members supporting our regular visiting demonstrators. We welcomed the return of Chris Parker, who earlier in the year helped us do the...
Jul 4th 2024
At our meeting on Thursday there was a change of plan due to the demonstrator we had booked being unable to attend due to illness. However, we did manage to get Pat Carroll from Ireland to do an Interactive Remote Demonstration. We eventually got the technology...
May 28th 2024
In January we did a test Interactive Remote Demonstration (IRD) with Chris Parker and after a few teething problems which we sorted, the committee decided to book well-known turner Andrew Hall, for our May meeting. 44 members came along to watch and interact with the...
Apr 29th 2024
Our Chairman Richie welcomed and introduced 4 new members now taking the club to 50 members for the year. He also encouraged all members to enter into the monthly competition and how we would take photographs of the winners in the two classes for inclusion on the web...
Apr 3rd 2024
What a great evening we had last Thursday, supported by 45 members who came to see Emma Cook aka The Tiny Turner. The Chairman welcomed the return of Emma who over the years has never ceased to treat us to fantastic demonstrations and really explains the technique...
Feb 24th 2024
Everyone must have been keen to see our demonstrator for tonight, Nathanael Griffiths, as the room was filling up early….or maybe it was also because our subscriptions for the year are due. In the end, 45 members attended. Nathanael comes from near Chester so had not...
Jan 28th 2024
The start of a new year for the club and a first in having both the AGM and our first I.R.D, (Interactive Remote Demonstration) This was the first time we had tried an IRD and special thanks have to go to Chris Parker well known Lancashire turner help us get it off...
May 9th 2022
Colin has been turning in the region of 40 years. For many years he was the AWGB South Eastern Rep and has recently moved “North” nearer his daughter. Moving was a fairly traumatic experience, not because of the house, etc. but many of his tools were disposed of...
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