| Date | Event | Presenter / Comments |
| 8 January | Demonstration ROBIN WOOD with his pole lathe. |
Robin is an internationally respected wood worker specialising in use of local timbers and traditional techniques, but with a distinctive modern twist. Using a foot-powered lathe, Robin turns stylish, but functional bowls and plates. His extensive research into the history of the craft led to publication of the definitive book on the history of the wooden bowl. www.robin-wood.co.uk. |
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22 January |
Hands on |
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12 February |
Demonstration RUSSELL KEBBLE ASK Tools
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ASK Tools stock a wide range of tools and machinery dedicated to the serious wood turner and wood worker. They have a wealth of wood turning experience and can help beginners and advanced woodturners with woodturning chisel and lathe selection, advice on all aspects of woodturning from deep hollowing to pen making. ASK Tools stock a wide range of wood turning tools and machines from Robert Sorby, Crown Hand Tools, Hamlet Craft Tools, Chestnut Products, Liberon, Proxxon, Record Power, Trend, Charnwood, SIP, Fox, Planet, Bessey, Kreg, Tormek and many others. If you want Russell to bring you anything (portable!) please let him know well in advance. www.asktools.co.uk – office@askmachinery.freeserve.co.uk |
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26 February |
Hands on |
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12 March |
Club AGM |
Annual General Meeting - 7:00 pm start |
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26 March |
Hands on |
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9 April |
Demonstration BOB CHAPMAN |
Bob is one of our “favourites” and back again by popular request. He has been
chosen to be one of the main attractions at the 2009 AWGB Seminar – proof, if
any were needed, of his skill both as a woodturner and demonstrator – the two
don’t necessarily go together! Bob says – “When I meet other woodturners for the first time they sometimes ask me what I make. No matter how many times it happens, it always confounds me. I want to say that I'll make 'anything you want, as long as it’s round', after the style of Henry Ford's 'any colour you like, so long as it’s black', but the question makes me feel inadequate because I haven't got that 'single item' speciality that seems to be expected of me.” www.bobchapman.co.uk |
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23 April |
Hands on | |
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14 May |
Demonstration IAN CLARKSON |
Ian is another of our favourites - he works from his home studio in picturesque Hebden Bridge in the southern Pennines, producing hollow forms, bowls, platters and sculptural forms, working almost entirely in British timbers. Finishes range from light oiling of the natural wood to metal leaf, coloured stains and blowtorching. Many of his pieces are domestic in size but he also produces larger pieces suitable for reception areas, boardrooms, offertory plates and conversation pieces. www.ianclarkson.com |
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28 May |
Hands on | |
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11 June |
Demonstration JOEY RICHARDSON |
Joey feels very strongly that wood, as a medium for art, is greatly undervalued. She is enthusiastically working to promote wood art in the UK, with the support of the Worshipful Company of Turners. Utilising her skills of airbrushing colour, piercing and texturing she has actively sought to marry her art into her work. Her work is recognised in the USA as well as in the UK and she is in four private collections in America. www.joeyrichardson.com |
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25 June |
Hands on |
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9 July |
Demo |
TBA |
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23 July |
Hands on |
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13 August |
Demonstrations TOM ALLISON and GEOFF CHAPMAN |
Tom Allison and Geoff Chapman are two popular “old” members of the club (we’re not quite sure how old though), who have been persuaded to step up to the lathe and demonstrate some home grown talent. Both extremely skilled, please be gentle with them in this their first foray into demonstrating. |
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27 August |
Hands on |
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| 10 September |
Demonstration SUE HARKER |
Sue turned professional and started to demonstrate her “signature” open segment and involuted turning in 2006. Through popular demand she now produces and sells a range of open segment wheels. In January 2007 she was accepted onto the Register of Professional Turners run by the Worshipful Company of Turners, London and in late March of 2007 was awarded a bursary by them. The Bursary has enabled her to set up her website and finance the production of a DVD. www.sueharker.com |
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24 September |
Hands on |
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8 October |
Demonstration
MARGARET GARRARD
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Margaret started woodturning as a hobby in 1995. By 2000 it developed into a business incorporating a wide range of wooden items and she has done all kinds of work, from lawn mower rollers to a tabernacle for Windsor College Chapel; table legs, bed knobs and broomsticks... bowls are somewhere in-between. From there her creative bent took over. Not content with wood turning, she developed piercing and complex designs, her inspiration drawn from the natural forms she observed on her long walks in the dales. This has earned her prizes in International competitions; her work can now be seen in The Daniel Collection, London. www.margaretgarrard.co.uk |
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22 October |
Hands on |
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12 November |
Demonstration CLIVE BROOKS of Robert Sorby
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Clive and the Robert Sorby / Turner’s Retreat
Team need no introduction. Friends of the Sheffield Woodturning Club, they are
always welcome, and always have something new to show us. (www.robert-sorby.co.uk)
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| 26 November |
Hands on |
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10 December |
Demo night |
TBA |
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17 December |
Xmas get together
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Please bring some food and drink! |