Really busy week this week with birthday celebrations, clockwork lenses, multi-centre turning, off-centre turning, an award for one of the group (well deserved), natural edge bowls, hollow forms, fitted furniture, platters with attitude, tools to restore and a whole lot more....exhausting just hearing about it all.....Read on for more:
Another busy week for all. We had hollow forms, natural edge bowls, multi centre turning, sea urchins, puzzles and some skiing rescue dogs...well almost. Read on for more:
Despite the weather (yes, I know the British obsession!!) some of us are still getting out and doing things in the workshop. We had at least one brave soul roughing out bowls in an unheated space. We also got a pupdate, further adventures in early photographic printing techniques, a look into one persons photographic archive and some travel updates from one lucky person who has actually seen the sun this month!! Read on for more:
Another packed evening this week. We all manner of work on show and plenty of ideas for future projects being discussed and of course we had a Pupdate for Jim...though the little pup is now not so little!! Read on for more:
Well, this week as a packed one! We had renovation work, Cyanotype printing, balls - Chinese, Cricket and just plain Large. We had bowls (segmented and natural edge), Urns, Hollow forms, a collection of Bert Marsh pieces on show and a whole lot more...all in all a varied evening. Read on for more:
Despite the somewhat cold temperatures it seems that some of us are continuing through the winter undeterred!! We had training aids, UV lights, plates, red Holly, plates and felled Yew plus a whole lot more this week. Read on for more:
The weather doesn't seem to be preventing folks from getting out into the workshop and in some cases into the great outdoors. We had turning, cars in pieces, filament driers and dog trackers plus a whole load of other stuff. Read on for more:
Well, first meeting of the year seemed to go well with lots of discussion and work on show...seems like Santa was kind to some of us and the workshop allowed some of us to escape the festive onslaught!! Read on for more:
Our meeting in between Christmas and Hogmanay (New Year) was well attended and it seems that quite a few of us made it out to the workshop to escape the celebrations. We had bowls, hollow forms, table lamps, racing cars and Santa's deliveries!! Read on for more:
Right then, last one before the big day. Seems like there's lots of work still going on in the workshops. We had some AI generated images, we got a look at some Christmas decorations making their annual reappearance, some prototype puzzles, an early gift unwrapping, a conical bowl, workholding innovations and a preview of some collaborative woodturning and rush weaving. Read on for more:
Well, the season finale is almost upon us and there is a lot going on. We got a very interesting presentation from Allan Joicey this week on turning cubes "on the bias" with Allan showing us he he handles this task and how his methods have evolved. We had a bunch of other thing being made, a santa claus chandelier amongst them and some talk of competition rigging...surely not!! Read on for more:
Another week with all kinds of things going on in workshops. We had visits to castles, high tech tracings, lots of Christmas crafts (keeping Jim happy), boxes in the shape of pears, flowers from the greenhouse and a rather spectacular piece of hybrid CNC/turning which caused a lot of interest. Read on for more: