Gloucestershire Association of Woodturners:
Wed
28
Jul '10

Les Thorne

 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 GAW audience   2 Les introduction   3 End grain log prep   4 end grain hollowing

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 Turn till translucent   6 Completed chalice   7 John Bennison   8 Prep for a cross grain bowl

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 Cross grain for further seasoning   10 Prep for textured bowl   11 Texturing with Arbotech   12 Rolling the texture inside

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 Rotary abrasive   14 Scorching   15 Carefully does it   16 Turned, textured, coloured

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 Artillery box hollowing   18 Tool cutting angles  19 Shape is good  20 Artillery box

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 Artillery box interior  23 Proton texturing  25 Pair of bud vases  26 Scorched beaded bowl

21 A perfect fit

23 Bud vase with “Proton” texture

25 A colourful pair

26 Scorching a beaded bowl blank

 

Mon
21
Jun '10

Novice Challenge Project 4: Honey Pot

Anyone wishing to participate in the Novice Challenge can find the instructions for download below in Microsoft Word format.

Click Here >> NCT project 4.doc

Thank you to all those participating and I hope you enjoy the project.

Please bring your Honey Pot to next months meeting for feedback.

Sun
20
Jun '10

John Berkeley

John Berkeley was the visiting demonstrator at the GAW’s June General Meeting. John demonstrated interesting and useful tips when turning in Polyester Resins.

For more information about John visit his website http://www.johnberkeley.co.uk/

1 introduction  2 use of tools   3 producing shavings  8 Carved polished finished

4 finer points of working with GPS   5 Meeting old friends   6 discussing the programme  7 Rotarty files for that distinctive look  

Sat
5
Jun '10

Les Thorne

Following the change in demonstrator for May, the GAW calendar has been updated to include an All Day Seminar with Les Thorne on Thursday 15th July. This will follow an evening demonstration by him on Wednesday 14th. For more information about Les Thorne’s work please visit his website www.noturningback.co.uk.

Tue
11
May '10

Allan Batty

Unfortunately due to illness Allan Batty will not be demonstrating at the Wednesday 12th May, club night. Martin Lawrence has kindly agreed to stand in and demonstrate.

Please note that the GAW day seminar with Allan Batty on Thursday 13th May has been cancelled.

Wed
21
Apr '10

Gerry Marlow – Workshop Demonstration

A quick reminder that Gerry Marlow will be demonstrating at 10.00 am on Saturday, 24th April 2010.

The event will be held at the GAW’s secondary venue Brockworth Court Farm, Glocester

BRING A PACKED LUNCH! (no shops nearby)


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