Woodturning Zoom Meeting Monday Session Report 19-10-20

Well, that was a change! A big thank you to our "guest host" Pat Carroll for stepping in to host the Monday session whilst some of us were swanning off to host other sessions.

So to summarise the evening we had the following:

OneWay Easy Core An update from me, not "showing off" (thanks Pat!!) but getting a little excited at the arrival of something that has been awaited for a good long while, namely an easy core system. This is going to allow me to retire the McNaughton system which has been in use for the largest bowls. Hopefully those larger coring operations will be a little less "exciting" in future. In any case it's a shiny new toy so yes Pat, showing off was probably right....

box with rotating rings by Ian Forster Ian Forster sent through an image of a box he made a little while back which is based on an idea from Hans Weissflog. The lid is a single piece which has been cut to release a couple of rings which rotate - this idea was seen recently in the work on an American turner called Jason Clark who has take the idea to produce a series of wide rimmed bowls with moving rings. Ian also showed us the home made tools he uses to make the parting cuts to release the rings.

phoca thumb m image0 Of course no Monday evening would be complete without something from Mr Powertex himself, Kevin McAlister!
Kevin sent over some images of his latest "pierced" work...watch out Helen! The piercing seems to be done in a slightly different way to what we are used to, using more of a crochet approach than a dental drill...anyway it's a nice piece and it is something different.

We had more contributions, thanks largely to some "gentle persuasion" from Pat, these would normally have gone unrecorded but Pat had the bright idea of recording the session which means I can take screen grabs....these are at the bottom of the article and I am sure that some of you will want to thank Pat for that little idea! So thanks go to: Allan Joicey, Brian Conchie, David Gordon, Gary Lowe (twice!), Helen Bailey, Jeff Schnell, Jim French, John Brown, Kevin Purdy, Len Shield and Martin Stacey....apologies if I have missed anyone out.

So the answer to getting folks to share seems to be simple, all I have to do is to threaten to unleash Pat on you!!

Images from Ian Forster:

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Images from Kevin McAlister: