Turning Club - 10/May/2014

Woods shown included sycamore, beech, burr oak, green ash, silver birch,laburnum, juniper, lignum vitae plus acrylic.

Pieces shown included a metal flake decorated bowl with black rim on a conical base, a spalted beech bowl, a burr oak hollow form plus a coloured and textured hollow form, a coloured dish with leaf decoration, a double vase form in silver birch with pierced flowers in both the internal and external parts, and an acrylic pen.

Roy Boulton demod techniques for facing and hollowing plus chuck tips, he also demod techniques for fluting and decorating using a router on jigs; in progress - a piece from an old Lignum Vitae bowling ball. Allen Atkins demo'd turning a thin stemmed goblet in Laburnum plus a Banana Boat with natural edge in sycamore.