Les Thorne once again put on two first-class demonstrations for the July meetings of the Club.
We were treated to informative and humorous events on both the Wednesday evening and Thursday all day events.
1 An eager audience at the July meetings
2 Les introduces his planned programme
3 Preparing timber for an end grain chalice
4 The hollowing process
5 A light aids turning to translucence
6 Completed thin wall (3mm) chalice
7 John Bennison (Featured Turner of the Month) described his other hobby of silversmithing
8 Preparing a blank for a cross grained bowl
9 Turned “fat” to allow for movement as the bowl dries
10 Preliminary turning (cross grain) on blank to be textured, coloured and scorched
11 Arbotech texturing
12 Rim textured inside and out
13 A rotary sander disc removed the fluff
14 Gas torch for scorching
15 The colouring process
16 Combination of natural, green and red colouring
17 Roughing out a box blank (end grain)
18 Detailed explanation of tool cutting angles
19 Just right
20 Spray-on ebony enhanced by Chantilly gold paste cream
21 A perfect fit
23 Bud vase with “Proton” texture
25 A colourful pair
26 Scorching a beaded bowl blank
































