June 2017
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Paul Howard with the certificates winners
The HF on the left won Chris Withall a turning of the month certificate
Large multi wood dish won Len Laker a highly commended certificate
Len Laker's commended coloured dish
A pair of corian pens
won a commended certificate
for Fred Taylor
Two decorated bowls by Paul Hunt
Tea light holder and banksia box by Bert Lanham
Paul Howard our demonstrator
getting into the zone
The first item of the day will be an owl like this
Sorting the blank for the owl head
Put together with hot melt glue
and mounted between centers
Turning a sphere with Paul's jig
Almost finished
Held between cup chucks to finish
The sphere complete
The jig to hold the sphere to turn the eyes
Paul using his indexing system
to set up the routing
Routing the eyes
The eye almost completed
The second eye almost complete
Creating the beak
Shaping the beak to fit the sphere
The head complete
The owl complete despite a drilling error
with the hat
A selection of Paul's work
Going to be an offset box
Preparing the offset chuck
The box bottom ready to be turned
The bottom turned and sanded
The top finished
The finished offset box.
The colour difference is
the top does not have
a finish
A speed turning to turn 3 flag toggles in under 3 minutes
Completed in 2.49
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