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NEWSLETTER OF THE DERBYSHIRE DALES WOODCRAFT CLUB JULY/AUGUST 2018

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Issue 57 Woodworms

WoodwormsOpen Day success!!!????

Looking back at Open Day I think we can say it was a success; more visitors than on previous occasions, many having a go at the crafts on offer and at least one new member. Thank you to the people who responded by giving feedback on the day; Yes, there were some things we didn’t do well but we will work to-wards improving that for next year.

Of course these events don’t just happen, a lot of work goes on prior to the day and behind the scenes so thanks to all who gave their time and services especially Philip Jones who put out the advertising boards and direction signs; and Graham Burke and helpers for putting out the re-freshments. Thanks to all who donated food, I understand from Graham that we received a total of £37 at the kitchen for refreshments.

Carving under the guidance of Roger King and pyrography by Liz King and her helpers was pop-ular as usual with many visitors and this year we had the scroll saw group taking part on the day (and not one blade was broken!!!) Special mention must go to the woodturning group for the way it was set up and involved visitors; in the past it has been a little disappointing with maybe one person doing a demo and very little opportunity for visitors to “have a go” and long periods which saw idle lathes. But its all changed!! Now we have a band of turners (see page 19) with shiny new Tutors’ badges and they are to be congratulated for putting on a good show.The marquetry table run by Tony Reindorp, aided and abetted by Terry Cambridge, created a lot of interest at the entrance of the hall to the extent that we’ll have to move them next year - it was causing a traffic jam at times!

The competitions and the display of members work were an attraction for members and visitors alike, so thanks to all who responded to my call to bring along pieces for display. Maybe next year a few more entries on the Masters’ table?

Bob Neill (professional pyrographer) came along and set up a stall; he enjoyed the day so much he’s asked if he can come again next year!

So that’s it folks, planning now starts for 2019James Sharpe - Open Day Co-ordinator

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Open Day - 2018

And they’re off ! The display of members’ work attracted a lot of interest from visitors and members alike.

Tony Reindorp and Terry Cambridge occu-pied pole position by the entrance with the Marquetry stand.


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Above - One of our new qualified tutors, Graham Legg, instructs a visitor on how to turn a pen whilst above and below, Roger King gives help and advice to people wishing to try carving.

Above left - Lisa Williams keeps a watchful eye on a visitor who is trying her hand at pyrography after giving turning a go!

Below left - professional pyrographer, Bob Neill, came and set up his stall and talked to visitors and members.


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Above left - Douglas Moseley ran the charity stall (Take Heart) raising £45.I understand that the lady who won the £25 prize in Douglas’s raffle re-turned the winnings and asked that it be given to the charity.Above right - a visitor tries her hand at scroll saw work cutting out a Xmas tree decoration.

Above - Graham Burke’s pit stop proved popular with visitors.

Right - Jean Nellis taken by sur-prise as she looks after husband Geoff ’s stall!


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Members’ Open Competition - June 2018Please be aware that for the sake of the league table points, visitors’ votes are stripped out of the total cast hence the position on the day may not be the same position achieved for points scoring.

Clockwise from top left: First - Carole Snell with her carving in Sy-camore (second

equal on the day); Second - Peter Rutter ’s rolling pin in Purpleheart , Ash and Pine (first on the day); Peter Blair’s walking stick in Ash, Lime and Oak (second equal on the day); Graham Jerram’s bowl in Burr Elm (third equal on the day); Third was David Reynolds rack of pens (third equal on the day).


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A l s o entered: Left - Graham Legg’s goblet in Ye w; Right - Dav-id Waldron’s bowl in Spal-ted Maple

Right - Liz King’s pyrographed work using Birch Ply.

Below - Ernie Han-son’s scrollsawed an-niversary tribute to his wife.


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Lef t - mar-quetr y work f rom Tony Reindorp.Right - Geoff Dalton’s box in unknown tim-ber - prize for knowing what it was!!!

Le f t - Tina Shinner’s pyro-graphed and painted box.

Right - Long stemmed gob-let in Oak from John Waring.

Lef t - pyro-graphed and pa inted box f rom Terr y Murtha.


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Masters’ Competition - June 2018

Above - First place taken by Peter Fantham with his hollow form in Ash (also first on the day)Below - Third equal was Dick Pot-ter’s bowl in Walnut (third on the day)

Above - second place went to John Williams for his lidded hollow form (a la Mark Sanger!) in Burr Elm (also second on the day)Below - Third equal was Richard Hagues entry in Plywood and Mahogany.


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Letter to the Editor

Hi

I am a member of the Eltham and District Woodwork Club (Melbourne, Australia) and I have just received a copy of your great newsletter, a lot of good and interesting reading. Contrary to all belief not all Aussie cricketers use fig leaf (see last issue) as sandpaper, a lot of us use the proper stuff to scuff the cricket ball. My wife and I will be in London for a few days in July, wish I had enough time to visit but everything has been planned; will not have any money left as my granddaughter has planned a visit to the “Fat Duck Restaurant” which we had to pay for in advance. OUCH! very expensive, puts a strain on the Aussie dollar! Hope we continue to get your newsletter

Kind regards Barrie Cole Melbourne, Australia

Barrie,

Thanks for your email, pleased you clarified the sandpaper issue, I just hope it’s good stuff you use and none of this Chinese rubbish; mind you, the way we play it wouldn’t make a lot of difference but don’t get me started on that!!!! I’ve heard that the Fat Duck is a bit pricey, pity you can’t make it up our way then you could have some proper food - fish and chips, with plenty of salt and vinegar (that’ll upset the health freaks). I guess you folks are into Winter now, allegedly it’s Spring here but I’ve just come back from picking up my newspaper and people are scraping the frost off their windscreens! I’ll continue to publish the newsletter for your entertainment as long as I’m fit and well enough to produce it.

Cheers for now and best wishes from the Old Country

James Sharpe

James

Fish and chips with lots of vinegar and salt sounds grouse ( which means bloody good ) we are in a so called winter; it has been very mild and hardly any rain down our neck of the woods.

Barrie Yesterday I gave a lift to a hitchhiker; he thanked me and asked me how did I know he wasn’t a serial killer. I told him that he chances of two serial killers being in the same car at the same time were pretty remote.


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Charity “Pupdate”You may recall that the club’s nominated charity in 2016 was “Dogs for Good”. This is a charity that provides assistance dogs to disabled people, not necessarily those who have eyesight issues.The club sponsored a dog, Lily, who underwent a training programme and she has now been placed with her new owner. This is the last update on Lily’s progress. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the charity.

l'm delighted to let you know that she sailed through the remainder of her training, and has been matched to someone waiting for one of our very special dogsl

Lily is helping a lady called Lynn who has multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a condition that affects the brain or spinal cord, and causes a range of symptoms including problems with vision, muscle stiffness, fatigue, and balance issues.

This of course, is where Lily comes in. She will be able to help Lynn using all of the special skills that trainer Becky taught her through training.

Lily always enjoyed the practical aspect of her work, and so will be a great help to Lynn. She will be able to fetch the phone, help pull off items of clothing, and generally support Lynn when she is feeling particularly tired or unwell.

She is already helping a lot around the house by opening and closing doors. This might not sound like a huge thing, but for Lynn who can really struggle with this due to the weakness she suffers with in her arms, having Lily to push them shut or pull them open is a massive help.

Since being partnered with Lynn, the team have also taught Lily to push the brake on Lynn's wheelchair - something that she might have had to struggle with in the past, but not anymore. Lily enthusiastically pushes it on or off whenever Lynn gives her the instruction, which saves her from trying to do this potentially painful action herself.

Of course, as well as this incredible support that Lily is now providing, she has already become a very special companion to Lynn, who says that she is "just thrilled with Lily".

We truly could not continue training very special dogs without the incred-ible support of sponsors like you. On behalf of everyone at Dogs for Good, thank you for helping us to turn the lovely Lily into a unique, and life changing helper!

With my warmest wishes

Gemma Aitken

Individual Giving Officer - Dogs for Good.


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Masters’ Section Competition - May 2018The theme for this month’s competition and those people who adopted the theme were awarded a bonus point; the theme was “a long stemmed goblet - 300mm. minimum”.There was a tie for first place between (left) Peter Fantham and (below) James Sharpe who had been getting in some scrollsaw practice with a piece of Syca-more. In second place was Dick Potter (below centre) who also used Sycamore and third (below right) was Richard Hagues with his piece in Spalted Beech.


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Masters’ Section Competition - cont’dAlso entered was John Henbery’s entry in Holly complete with captive ring (left) and John Wil-liams’ splendid entry in Purple Heart and Ash (right).

Left - Clearly this person didn’t pay much attention in English language classes!!

Left - does anyone know of a use for broken scrollsaw blades? Answers on the back of a blank signed cheque to The Editor!!


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Members’ Open Section Competition - May 2018Tied places in abundance this month!! Out on his own in first place (left) was the segmenting master, Peter Rutter who used Wenge, Cherry and Tulip; second equal were (centre) David

Waldron using Maple and Purple Heart and (right) Tony Reindorp who proved that Marquetry isn’t the only string to his bow!!

If the Methodists merged with the Spiritualists, would they become Methylated Spirits?


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Members’ Open Section Competition - cont’dThere was a four way tie for third place: Below left - Graham Legg used some of his Oz im-port of Red Gum; Centre - David Reynolds made Sycamore a little more interesting; Below right - Geoff Dalton turned his finial pot from Mahogany and (bottom left) Liz King flew the flag for the pyrographers using Tulip Wood.

Also entered (below) - Douglas Moseley’s bowl in Burr Elm . More entries on next page


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Members’ Open Section Competition - cont’d

Left - Long stemmed goblet in Box and Walnut f rom Roger King and ( r i g h t ) p y r o g r a p h e d j e we l l e r y box f rom Tina Shinner.

DDWC nominated charity 2018 - Take Heart (Derby)

I am informed by member Douglas Moseley who is running our charity events that he raised, through your and visitors’ generosity, a total of £45 on Open Day. Together with £15 he raised from another source, Douglas was able to write out a cheque for £60 which he presented to Michael Flude (Chairman of Take Heart ) when he returned the Take Heart banner which had been loaned for the day. Michael and his wife did call in on Saturday to thank our Chairman for the money that the club had donated throughout the year. Up to date, DDWC has raised £274.06.Douglas’s target is to hit £400 by the end of the year and so whenever you see his stall of items for sale etc., dig deep and help the charity; most of the money raised by Take Heart is used to buy equipment for the Derby Royal Hospital.

A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.


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May 2018 Meeting - Mark Sanger

Our guest demonstrator for May was woodturner Mark Sanger. (http://www.marksanger.co.uk) . He started out his working life as an aerospace engineer before joining the police force. Over the years he had taken up woodturning as a hobby and in 2014 decided to make it his full time job; his speciality is producing hol-low forms and then applying texturing and colouring .His first project to demonstrate was a crossgrain bowl using a long grind bowl gouge. He explained that he rarely uses a sharpening system once he has ground the gouge to shape he keeps it sharp using a 300 grit diamond hone, little and often.He initially balanced the blank using a push cut and then switched to a pull cut to clean up the face and form a spigot. Then, using a pull cut, he roughly shaped the bowl and following a quick rub with the diamond hone took a finishing cut to remove tool marks and tear out. Mark then adjusted the tool rest to the horizontal and used the tool as a scraper to produce very fine shavings and a clean finish. Satis-fied with the finish he put in a couple of decorative grooves near the mouth of the bowl and used wire to burn the rings. He explained that an alternative to using wire is to use the old fashioned Formica - pos-sibly a little safer as you can’t wrap the latter around your fingers!! The bowl was then remounted on the spigot, the front face cleaned with a pull cut then hollowed the bowl using a push cut making sure to sharpen the tool before making the final cut. Further details of the technique can be read in his book, a copy of which is in the club library

(I should make it clear that it really is Mark Sanger in the photos although H&S does make it hard to identify him!!! -Ed.)

Mark recommends that at this stage that after roughing out, the bowl is put to one side for a couple of days as there is bound to be some movement in the wood that will spoil the final appearance. For the finish, he first coats the wood with Lemon Oil, this reduces the heat and dust produced when using the abrasive. The oil will evaporate and it is in order to use sanding sealer in the normal manner. A paste wax was used be-fore the final sanding; any dust changes to a sludge keeping the atmosphere clean. Continued on next page

http://www.marksanger.co.uk

http://www.marksanger.co.uk


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A friction pad was used to hold the bowl while the spigot was removed and the foot shaped.

Finished item Right (supporting fingers courtesy of the Chairman!)

For his second project Mark embarked on the production of a “lidded form” - i.e. a hollow form with a lid! Initially he proceeded as in the first project up to the point where he finished the shape of the bowl and cleaned up the face; the position of the lid was marked (about 1/3 of the diameter) then from the edge of the lid position a layer of wood was turned away. A hole was bored into the body of the bowl using a 25mm. Forstner bit and then using the gouge, hollowing commenced. A sanding disc on a rod was used to clean the inside. When completed, Mark again recommends leaving the work piece on one side foe a couple of days then remount and check the “roundness” of the bowl. The lid had been pre-prepared and this was placed in the bowl aperture cushioned with a pad of kitchen paper and the whole piece mounted so that the outside pf the bowl could be cleaned up and the foot completed. The lid was then mounted alone and turned to fit the aperture. A finial had been prepared to fit the lid; the latter was decorated and a countersink prepared to take a screw which would attach to the finial. The hook design of the finial had been produced by attaching a pattern to the wood and then cut-ting out with a scroll saw; shaped using a sanding arbor and fin-ished with burrs on a Dremel type machine. A hole was made in the bottom of the finial to take the screw though the lid.

Mark then demonstrated his techniques for colouring and tex-turing. For the latter he uses a high power pyrography unit which employs 18 swg wire (generally 26 swg is used ).In the example demonstrated, he draws shapes e.g. flowers, onto paper and then pastes this pattern on to the piece he is working on using Pritt Stick - this is water based and doesn’t burn so eas-ily when he cuts through the paper using his pyrography iron. When the patterns are burned on to the wood, he uses a texturing tool to emphasise shapes etc.

Continued on next page


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Some rather aggressive pyrography!!

Below - a finished item using this technique.

Mark concluded his demo by showing us how he coloured his work using high grade acrylic paints - these have high permanence so don’t fade. Several coats are applied, mostly with an almost dry brush, achieving an almost metallic appearance.

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And then there were Five - AWGB Approved Tutor (Assessment)

Members will be aware that a few months ago Geoff Dalton became our Club’s first Approved Tutor for wood turn-ing. DDWC now has another four Approved Tutors, namely Derek Puplett, Dick Potter, Brian Walker and Graham Legg. It is with much thanks to Geoff Dalton that the other four Club members are now Approved Tutors. Over a period of some weeks, our “Four Musketeers” spent some considerable time with Geoff, learning in detail about his assessment day, and practicing together the skills and teaching techniques required to pass the assessment. Geoff very kindly guided us through the key elements of the assessment programme. This included the need to write a lesson plan, to deliver the planned lesson, and to demonstrate a number of wood turning skills at a personal level. The four candidates met in pairs and collectively on a number of occasions at Geoff’s work shop in Winster, and also at Brian’s in Mayfield. Many thanks to both colleagues for the use of their work shops, lathes, wood and tools; also for some great lunches. We practised in particular delivering a lesson in a 45 minute time slot (nearly everyone who lives in Winster has now had a lesson!). Lesson planning proved to be quite a challenge, as did some of our debates and views on many aspects of woodturning. What is clear from the AWGB, is that they are not looking for highly experienced, very competent wood turners. They are looking for applicants who can demonstrate (safely) a number of important wood turning skills, be able to plan a lesson, and then deliver that lesson with H&S in mind at all times. Communication and empathy with a novice turner are key words to point out. The Assessment day involved a visiting assessor (Paul Hannaby, Chairman, AWGB), and four individual lessons. The batting order was Graham, Dick, Derek, Brian. Each candidate brought with them their own “Rookie” student. Candidates were able to choose to deliver their lesson or demonstrate their skills first, which ever suited each person. The lesson was aimed at introducing a complete novice to turning, demonstrating key H&S require-ments at all times, naming lathe parts, naming a few tools, turning a square piece of wood to round using a spindle roughing gouge, and then using a Skew chisel to make a planing cut. All of this inside 45 minutes! Quite a chal-lenge! The skills demonstration included using a spindle roughing gouge, a skew chisel (to make planing cuts and V cuts), and then turning a number of beads and coves with a 3/8” spindle gouge. Each assessment was timed, and 1-1 feedback was given by the assessor. For the future the club is now able to offer wood turning training at all skill levels to new members. Addi-tionally under the AWGB banner it can support events to attract new members of all ages, hopefully some of them from the younger generations. What about a Young Person’s Open Day? We could consider setting up a school based teaching programme? How about supporting Scouts and Girl Guides Open Days? Interested in becoming an Approved Tutor? Please contact one of the above named colleagues. Graham Legg

Derek - Dick - Geoff - Graham - Brian

P.S. The successful candidates got a mention in the AWBG June e-bulletin, just a pity the name of the club was slightly wrong!!! (Derbyshire Dales Woodturners Club!!) - Editor


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Woodworms - Independent newsletter of Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club.Editor/publisher : James Sharpe

20 Beech Drive,Ashbourne DE6 [email protected]

Club Contacts Chairman - Derek [email protected]

Vice-Chairman - Bronagh Cassidy

Secretary - Roger [email protected]

Treasurer - Digby [email protected]

Demonstrations Co-ordinator - Dick Potter

Tools Co-ordinator - Tom Livesey

Librarian - Chris Carlton-Bull/Joe Akers

Competitions C0-ordinator - Lisa/John Williams

Committee members can be contacted by e-mail-ing the addresses above or [email protected]. Your message will be forwarded to the appropri-ate person.

Place Name(s)

1 Peter Rutter

2 David Waldron

3 David Reynolds

4= Graham Legg, Carole Snell, Geoff Dalton

7= Tony Reindorp, Graham Jerram

9= John Waring, Terry Murtha

11= Roger King, Tina Shinner, Liz King, Douglas Moseley

15= Lisa Williams, Brian Walker

17= Philip Jones, James Snell, Ernie Hanson

20= Trevor Harvey, John Pickup, Tony Rawcliffe, Peter Blair

Place Name

1 Peter Fantham

2 John Williams

3 Richard Hagues

4 Dick Potter

5 James Sharpe

6 John Henbery

7 Derek Puplett

8 Geoff Nellis

How are you doing? - competition places at the halfway point

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