Turning Club - 04/June/2016

Woods shown included Yew, Ash, Beech, Sycamore, Walnut, Hornbeam, Laburnum, Goncalo Alves, Blackheart Sassafraz (Tasmanian), Zebrano, Mahogany and Oak.

Pieces shown included - a bowl with brass nutcracker and compartments for whole nuts and shells; a jewellery stand, a pen with pattern inlay, a dish with inlays, a vase, a pepper mill, a skeleton clock, a fob watch, a lidded box in bud vase form and a hollow sphere inside a hollowed cube - in Goncalo Alves.

Celebrating his birthday ... Roy Boulton demo'd turning pieces with emphasis on discovering how to get the best out of a piece of wood - using Yew and Laburnum ...

Tino DeJesus demo'd his techniques for turning thin walled goblets in Sycamore - like the magnificent specimens he often brings for display...