Rick, from Chesterfield started off by introducing himself and giving us a short resumee of his wood turning life.
The first item he was going to demonstrate was an off centred inset bowl.
The primary piece was oak and the inset walnut. On the base of the oak he had glued a sacrificial piece of wood to put in the chuck to hold the oak whilst being turned. He started off by truing up both, the walnut that will become the inset and oak the base.
Starting with the oak, Rick trued- up the face of the wood and put an OG shape on the edge. He sanded to 240 grit and coated with a hard wax oil satin finish. (he emphasised that the finish was not to a selling standard, but for demonstration purposes it was acceptable).
The work was then mounted using the new centre, only 10mm away from the primary centre for the recess using a 3/8th inch bowl gouge.
The inset piece was then put on the screw chuck to create a 5mm overhang when inserted into the oak piece and shaped to fit the recess in the oak.
A small tenon of about 2mm was formed to hold the walnut whilst it shaped to fit the recess in the base using a bowl gouge.

After lunch Rick demonstrated the use of a ring cutter in a piece of sycamore and very effective it was removing a lot of material quickly.

Rick’s next project was a candle stick with two off centre elements made from oak. Having rounded the piece off, tenons were formed on both ends, a supporting plug was formed turned down to 25mm to place in the recess for the candle. This supports the wood whilst in the chuck. The description of how the candlestick was made is well cawaovered in the attached sheets. It was a very interesting day and the demonstration was accompanied by a great commentary.

A copy of each instruction will be forwarded to all members via email. There will be 10 copies of each available at the next meeting in October

This month 12th October our demonstrator will be Colwyn Way. Should be a good day.

Matthew