Woodturning Zoom Meeting Monday Session Report 12-10-20

A full evening meeting yet again, and our first visitor from the United States...not sure what he made of the accents though !!

So to summarise the evening then we had the following:

phoca thumb m p1020507 copy Martin Stacey showed us his new workspace. We got a guided tour and Martin gave us all loads of information about how the new space was built and showed us some great ways to make those important things like a dust extraction unit. (Images at the bottom of the page folks!)

Gary Lowe showed us a recent piece in Elm he has just completed.

(Images at the bottom of the page folks!)

Helen Bailey (our resident superstar) has been busy again and yet again has produced a stunning piece of work which has rightly featured on several other websites ....don't breathe too heavily on the screen or it might blow away!!

(Images at the bottom of the page folks!)

phoca thumb m image3 Pat Carroll was the party who sent over the image of Helen's latest piece so, naturally, we couldn't allow him to escape the limelight. This piece arrived on my doorstep a little while ago and is now gracing my living room wall. Pat gave us a little bit of the background on how he arrived at this piece and the source of the timber.

Bill Mooney sent over a couple of images of some spheres he had been making but the timber seemed to have different ideas so these two were re-purposed after some major checking appeared in the timber.

We also took our first ever poll at this meeting, the question posed to those attending was whether or not they would like to book a demonstrator for a remote demonstration using Zoom, we came out with 82% in favour of doing so. A couple of demonstrators (Emiliano Achaval and Jason Clark) have been contacted for prices, this information will be put back into a later meeting and we can get some firm numbers on those wanting to attend and sort out payment....exciting!!

PLEASE NOTE: If you voted against having a demonstrator this does NOT mean you will have to pay, only those wishing to attend the demo will need to pay and only those who pay will get access to the demo.

All told it was a successful evening and, I am delighted to say, it appears that plenty of you have got the hang of sending photos.....so thank you to those who have sent photos (Remember: you get better at it the more you do it !!) and to the others...get those phones out and get some photos taken!!

Images from Martin Stacey: