Another busy week with the improving weather and lengthening days allowing many of us to get back out to working on a wide variety of projects. We had demonstration preparations, standing around in the dark under cloths, archive turnings, lovely hollow forms, oval hollow forms, welcoming back an old friend from over the water and a whole lot more ..... Read on for more:
Andrew Hall sent over some photos of his conversion of an old timber storage/work area in the garden into a training facility for Roman and his pal Sunny. We also got a look at the preparations in hand for the last two demonstrations Andrew will be doing at local clubs. Andrew is planning to demonstrate some platters based on blanks prepared using paints and the potters wheel...wish we were all there and hope things go well.
Burnsy sent over some updates on the camera with things arriving to help get a little closer to some nice big negatives. A darkcloth and a loupe have arrived meaning that a formless lump is now appearing behind the camera and things are coming into focus much better...having only one working eye which is now not working quite as well as it used to isn't helpful. Things are also upside down .... a bit of head scratching required!!
Graham Brooks gave us another look into his archives with some shots of previous work, very nice indeed. The knee is recovering but not as fast as Graham would like....takes a bit more time when you're over 25 though!!
Julian Cleak sent over some photos of a camera he used at work, a rather lovely Crown Graphic Special. It's a 4x5 rangefinder camera with sheet film and polaroid backs...lovely bit of kit...self focus rather than autofocus on this one!!
Kevin Purdy sent over some photos of more spinning tops with bowls...they are addictive...once you start making them you just can't stop !!
Malcolm Ferguson sent in a photo of a really lovely Oak bowl...well done !!
Martin Stacey sent over some photos of his completed hollow form now with a lid and legs attached. The finish on the body of the form is multiple layers of spray lacquer which were wet sanded to give a highly polished look. Really lovely project, well done !!
Phil Irons sent over an update on the Mulberry hollow form which is now drying out. It appears that the form has moved ever so slightly during drying and now resembles a rugby ball in cross section, of course this just makes it even more beautiful. Check out the video to see the now wobbly hollow form !!
Philip Bull sent in some photos of pages from the Holtzapffel book on simple turning to help Steve Gordon with his restoration of the set of turning tools he showed us last week. Several people commented on the cover image of the book pointing out that the turned item on the cover was not perhaps something that most of us would consider to be simple turning !!
Videos Submitted This Week
As always we had several contributions from others so, if you showed something, then please do send over some photos you can do it from your mobile phone.... it's not that hard, just ask a teenager for help!!
DON'T FORGET: YOU SHOULD SEND OVER YOUR PHOTOS/VIDEOS FOR MONDAY EVENING RIGHT AWAY FOLKS!!
Don't forget you can find the previous Monday Session Reports on the website just click here. You can also look at the images for each week by clicking here and look at the images for each contributor by clicking here.
Once again thanks to all of you for making these evenings such a success, if nobody contributed then none of these evenings could happen. Keep on making and, most important of all, keep on sharing!
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