For those of you that have been following my blog, you can also follow the events of the woodturning guild of which I am a member.

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I hope you enjoy seeing the things that our club does. This site is new so there will be more to post in the future of the activities and [...]

Well, July is almost over and I’m just getting to the meeting round-up. The summer is passing by quickly and we will soon be back at it. But, let’s recap.

The June meeting had a flurry of activity. It was a “round robin” demonstration night. In all there were five quick demonstrations of various tools or skills [...]

Well only a week late this time.

Ross Wilson from the Woodturners Guild of Ontario came up to give a nice demonstration for novice bowl turning. It was quite appropriate since our membership is starting to grow with many new turners.

Technique was the main emphasis. How to hold the tools properly, presenting the cutting edges to the [...]

I’ve been pretty busy the past few months and haven’t had a chance to update the blog about the meetings for the past couple of months. So I’ll make it short.
In February, Fred Klapp braved inclimate weather and came to the meeting to demonstrate his method of box turning. Once the box was finished, he donated [...]

Texturing was this month’s demonstration. Rick had the pleasure of displaying his talent again as our demonstrator. He stepped through various ways of texturing and decorating turnings.

Some species of wood are rather plain. These species respond well to additional design elements.

Some example that were shown were:

Applying a stain or dye
Woodburning accents
Beading tools
Texture and chatter tools
Wire wheel [...]

Great meeting last night. A new board was elected.

Our club president, Rick Biggs, demonstrated how to make Christmas tree ornaments using small hollow turnings and adding finials to the top and bottom of the hollow turning for extra design details.

It was also a big step forward me last night. It was the first time that I [...]

Yesterday was the November meeting to the Simcoe Woodturners‘ Guild.

The “Show and Tell” was interesting this month. It displayed a demonstration of many different style and design thoughts dealing with a poplar block that was handed out at October meeting. It was nice to see how everyone interpreted the given block of wood and every one [...]

Another great meeting this month.

I have to pat myself on the back for donating a few pieces of Russian Olive to the raffle table. Many members commented on the pieces. I found it useful to listen in and get ideas of how it turns, how it reacts and what safety measures need to be [...]

Tonight’s meeting was really informative.

One of our members, Don McNiven, gave an interesting presentation on a method of making bowl sculptures. By slicing a bowl into strips and gluing them back together, he has produced some inspiring forms that take bowl making down an interesting road.

He has applied his skills of bowl making and engineering [...]

For those that braved the snow storm, it was a good meeting. A guest from the Woodturners’ Guild of Ontario demonstrated how quick and easy it is to do spindle turning for coffee table legs using a board template as the only means of repetition. Since he has been turning for over 60 years, some thing [...]