All kinds of things going on this week, Virtual Symposiums, puncture repairs, router jigs, joinery, website updates, getting a head start on Christmas and some woodturning thrown in for good measure .... you can tell the weather has gotten better. Read on for more:
Burnsy spent a fair part of the week this week in a darkened room packed with computers helping to deliver the Virtual element of the AAW symposium from Raleigh in North Carolina...no travelling involved !! The streaming was managed largely without incident, it kind of looks like we have cracked it...great team effort. You can still purchase a ticket for access to the recordings....just saying....
Gary Lowe sent over a photo of a rather lovely natural edge bowl. The piece was much admired and rightly so, lovely piece of work as always.
Graham Brooks sent over some photos a very nice piece of work. The Escoulen chuck was given an outing for this one which has three small bowls inset into a larger one forming a clover leaf type pattern. Really nice work and nice to see the chuck in action!!
John Brown (Penn) sent over a photo of a Christmas decoration he'd made which makes use of thumb tacks (drawing pins) with coloured heads as decoration. Simple but clever idea and really effective. Good to get a head start on the Christmas rush.
Julian Cleak sent over a whole set of photos showing a recently completed project to make a planter, and a very nice job it is too!! It was nice to see Julian using the Woodrat router jig which has been brought back onto the market recently. Really great project.
Kevin Purdy sent over some photos of a couple of recently completed projects. A chip and dip bowl was the first and the second was a novetly piece in the shape of a bird which had been turned off centre. Very nice as always.
Len Shield sent over some photos of some recent pieces including a bird, two hippo's and a bit of miniature turning as part of a bigger project. Very innovative, the hippo's especially caught a lot of attention.
Martin Stacey has been getting on with the garden renovations, getting out there while the weather is agreeable. The wheelbarrow proved to be unco-operative and developed a puncture so Martin went back to his youth and dug out the bicycle puncture repair kit to solve the problem....just so we are clear .....no spoons were bent during the repair of this puncture.
Phil Irons sent over a photo of his new IT assistant helping out with updating his website....that explains a lot.....
Steve Gordon sent over some photos of a box of goodies he had acquired from the workshop of the late Ray Key. These are part completed works and show the evolution of some of the shapes that Ray developed which are now seen regularly in the work of a range of other turners. Very interesting.
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!
Photos are below, click on a photo to see a bigger version.
