Pembrokeshire Wood turners AGM 10 May 1012 Chairman’s report
Apologies from Leigh and Jo Rihan, Rob Barker
Since last AGM April 27 2011 the club has continue to grow and we have started a second “hands on” evening on the 4th Thursday each month, we now have a storage crate on wheels to keep club equipment in made by Eddie and I with materials supplied by 21c for which we are very grateful.
Most importantly the standard of work has improved almost beyond that which I thought possible when the club started back in November 2009
A brief resume of happenings through the year:-
May Peter stood in at short notice after Sorby cancelled at 2.30pm on the day of the demo. Peter turned Spindle work.
June Alan Carrier turned his version of square bowls a very good demo by a club member
First of our “hands on” at the newly refurbished 21c. The “hands on” evening is proving ever more popular with novice and experienced turners alike.
Chris Eagles all day demo at Lamphey Village Hall a great Day for us turners where we learned lots of new techniques from Chris. Refreshments were served up by Mary and Sonya including a lunchtime meal for about 35, thank you to them.
July Saw the cabinet installed at the Stackpole Centre to display members turnings. It was donated by Vaughans of Haverfordwest, Thanks to them for their support. I think Jerome dropped morethan a few hints that we wanted it, Thanks Jerome.
August Lamphey show on the first Wednesday in August, a new art class of Woodturning was sponsoredby the club and after some competition when members turned items for a trophy, JohnCharnocks was chosen. I was very pleased to win it in the woodturning section with a Hollow Form in Mulberry.
Bert Alexius demonstrated candle stick making at the club night, which for me was one of our best members demo’s, fancy forgetting the callipers Bert !!
Sept Picton Castle Fayre, sales and demo’s by members,Jerome,Rob and Bob did washout Saturday and Eddie, Paul, Bert, Sonya and I did sunny Sunday. Sun really does shine on the righteous.
Also did the Stackpole event, where I was accused of turning up late by Bert, Dougie and Gerald.
They had the stand already set up. I wasn’t late, they couldn’t sleep!!
Club night saw Peter turning and joining two pieces together and making a clock surround.
Oct Leigh Rihan did lidded boxes, always good to watch and learn from Leigh.
Nov Mark Sanger and George Foweraker did a ‘Master Class” on the Friday evening before Mark did his all day demo at Lamphey. This was the best demo I have seen by a pro turner. The event was well attended and once again Mary and Sonya did an excellent job of the catering.
Dec Rob Barker he of the “Rings” did his Goblet with captive rings and also a Rattle. After the break for the usual refreshments I showed how to make shop made chucks to hold and make pendants.
Jan 12 The club was fortunate to have Mark baker editor of the wood turner magazine do a demo do Japanese inspired turning, he also urged members to think outside the box when designing items to turn. About this time Bert started bringing wood to be raffled, can only think how much room he has made in his workshop by the amount he has brought and still brings. A big Thank you Bert.
Feb Natural edge turning and a bit of hollowing by me.
March Jon Simpson for Yarmouth who was on holiday here in Pembrokeshire showed us items to be turned for craft fayres, bag carriers and pens etc.
April Leigh Rihan, this time turning Rhododendron into fruit shapes.
May Colby Woodland Garden, demo’s and sales a successful day with many interested visitors, also Stackpole revisited, from both these events we may have potential new members.
All in all a busy and very good year for the club, lots of interesting demo’s, I hope we have all learned something to take back to our workshops or sheds to help make our turnings better.
My thanks to our committee John Charnock, Jerome and Peter for making my job easy. Jerome is stepping down from his post and I would like thank him for his efforts, he will continue to be “Webmaster”
Mary and Sonya deserve a special vote of thanks for being such good caterers and looking after us so well with the delicious cakes etc. Thank You.
One other thing I have to say before I finish. The committee has co-opted Paul to run the raffle and to organise the monthly challenges. The raffle will be as before at half time, with hopefully some more wood from Bert’s seemingly endless supply and also some useful woodturning items.
Paul has decided the rules for the challenge will be on a points system along the lines of 10 for best exhibit 8 for second, 6 for third and 5 points to all other entries. This will encourage more members to enter and as can be worked out someone who enters every month but has not made first place could have amassed enough points to be judged the best.
A further 2 competitions will be held at Christmas and the AGM entries cannot have been entered prior to the competition and can be of any wood turned item. The club will provide a trophy for the winner of each competition.
Please do all you can to support Paul.
Thank you all for being here tonight and for being such loyal members and indeed friends.
Thank you
John Blake
