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Riding the Bevel exhibiting items and demonstrating at both, so why not come along and lend your support?
Plans for the Seminar are moving along at a pace. The featured demonstrators have been finalised. For more on what there is to look forward to, check out page 2. It makes planning this event so much easier if we have an accurate handle on numbers before hand so please get your booking form back to Vinny in good time.
The February competition saw another huge turnout of entries. Once again, well done to all who entered. Given the dark evenings it is perhaps not so surprising that the first few months of the year always seem to get the most entries, but this year has been exceptional. After such a good start, it would be fantastic if everyone can keep the level of participation up and we could set a record for competition entries in a year!
Finally a reminder that I welcome any contributions to the newsletter. Have a great month.
Varn.
Inside this issue:
March 2011 Volume 3 Issue 23
Coming SoonComing SoonComing Soon
Sun 6 March - Tree Week: Family Fun Day at Avondale Forest Park 12-4:30 pm
Wed 9 March - Workshop (Scout Hall)
Thu 10 March - Tree Week: Demonstration and Exhibition at IKEA.
Sat 2 April - (Scout Hall)
Demonstrator: Michael Fay
Competition: Platter
February turned out to be a good month for turning. After the Saturday meeting, I made it over to the Wednesday workshop (more on that on page 5).
I followed this up with a trip to Frank Gallagher for a workshop. This was a very enjoyable evening and my thanks go to Frank for hosting this workshop and John Doran for organising things for those who attended. Workshop visits are a great place to get all sorts of tips and ideas and I find them useful on so many levels. Frank’s one was no different by any means and I came home armed with plenty of things to try.
I know John Doran has been trying to encourage more people to host workshops and it would be nice if we could get more of these going over the coming months. There is no requirement to be a talented turner, with an exciting project ready to host a workshop. It just needs a willingness to have a few people around and a bit of wood to mess around with.
In that spirit I have asked John to organise a workshop in Happy Place. Hopefully, someone will get something out of this even if it is only me being told why I’m going wrong!
If I can do this, anyone can, so why not talk to John and put your name forward.
March looks like being busy too, with Tree Week events including the Fun Day at Avondale Park and the day at IKEA. Members of the chapter will be present,
This stunning piece by Cecil Barron won the artistic section
in February’s competition. More competition news on page 4.
Fun and games at the February workshop on page 5
Irish Woodturners’ Guild
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Roger Bennett started woodturning in 1992
and in 1994-5, was the first woodturner to
participate in the Craft and Design Business
Development course run by the Crafts
Council of Ireland in Kilkenny. Since then,
Roger has made his living from woodturning
and has had his work shown in many
exhibitions and received numerous awards.
Roger’s demonstrations of his delicate and
exquisitely decorated pieces are always
extremely popular.
Joe Laird was a member of the Dublin
Chapter, before turning professional a few
years ago. Around this time, Joe established
Ireland’s first dedicated woodturning school
and set up the Craobh Cuig Deag chapter to
accommodate many of his students.
Joe has always been a very popular
demonstrator at Dublin Chapter meetings
and it is great to be able to welcome him
back at our seminar.
Saturday 7th May 2011, Registration: 9.00 a.m.
Venue: Willington Scout Hall, Templeogue Lodge, Dublin
OneOne--Day Seminar 2011Day Seminar 2011
Featuring:
Mark Baker, Roger
Bennett and Joe Laird
Mark Baker is well known to many as the
editor of Woodturning magazine. In
addition to numerous articles for the
magazine, Mark, who is a member of the
Register of Professional Turners, has
written a number of books including “Wood
for Woodturners” and “Woodturning
Projects: A Workshop Guide to Shapes”.
Mark is no stranger to Ireland having
demonstrated at both the 2008 and 2009
IWG national seminars.
Demonstrations
In addition to our featured demonstrators, there will be demonstrations by a number of Dublin chapter members.
Competitions
An open competition will be held on the day. Up to three pieces may be entered in the seminar competition by each delegate.
Dublin chapter members may enter any one of their pieces to the regular chapter competition, which will also be held on the day.
A raffle will be held on the day with some great prizes on offer.
Trade Stands
A fabulous array of trade stands will be present on the day.
Seminar Price
Irish Woodturners Guild Member - €50
Non Member - €60
Non members are welcome.
Lunch will be provided, together with tea, coffee and biscuits throughout the day.
Reservations with payment in full by 27
April 2011
Please send booking form to:-
Mr Vincent Whelan 5 Woodfield Scholarstown Road Dublin 16 Ph: 087 760 4918
For more details check our website: www.dublinwoodturners.com
Scout Hall
From the M50, take the N81 Exit (J11, towards the city centre). On the N81, turn left on to Wellington Lane at the roundabout by the Spawell Pub/Leisure
Centre. Continue straight until you reach the next roundabout and then turn right
onto Orwell Road. After passing a shopping centre on your right, the scout hall
is just to the right at the next roundabout.
From Terenure Village, head in the direction of the M50 on the N81, at the roundabout by the Spawell Pub/Leisure Centre turn right onto Wellington Lane.
Continue straight until you reach the next roundabout and then turn right onto
Orwell Road. After passing a shopping centre on your right, the scout hall just to
the right at the next roundabout.
Please remember to show consideration for local residents when parking
around the scout hall.
Directions to the Scout Hall:
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Turning gives you wings
shaped concave for the underside of the lid, The lid was now reversed – not into the chuck for fear of marking the actual lid-edge, but into a tailor-made friction chuck, with the tailstock brought up for support. Again, the finished shape of the lid-top was a gently undulating convex area, flowing into a concave curve out to the edge.
The final stage of the piece would be to create a finial which would be located into the hole left by the screw chuck. Unfortunately time caught up with Tony before this could be done. The final stage of this demonstration involved mounting the piece on a plinth, thereby giving it the gallery-status such an item deserves.
Demonstrations where everything goes like clockwork have a potential for informing the onlookers. But they have their limitations (I have a drawer half full of glass-cutters with which I have never, ever been able to cut glass!) In a very real and practical sense though, the demo which is fraught with problems has an even greater potential to teach us such wisdoms as never give up/ when you meet a dead-end, think of a way round it/ every problem can become an opportunity to do something different.
I have seen enough of Tony Lally’s competition entries over the years, to know what a fine turner he is. On behalf of all of us who are still on the learning curve, thank you Tony. You are a tonic!
Pacelli O’Rourke Photos by Tom Delaney and Rich Varney
At this moment, the piece began to run out of true, so Tony decided to bring up the tailstock for support. Just when things were progressing nicely, the piece broke just in front of the chuck jaws!
At this point, anyone who has any experience of woodturning would wish me to make the point that in turning “Every show is a live show”. From the first moment you switch on your lathe you are embarking on a journey. In the case of a complex item such as Tony set out to demonstrate, that journey is fraught with many perils. Two things immediately stand to his credit; first of all his courage in tackling such a difficult item for his demonstration, and secondly his character in refusing to abandon what he had started.
So, on with the story... Having reversed the piece and created a new spigot, Tony now parted off the broken portion. Once again the hollowing could proceed. At this stage Tony switched to using a scraper, which proved a more secure option than the gouge. Having hollowed to his satisfaction, he now created a ‘ledge’ on which would sit the lid. However deep the hollowing, deeper yet was the wistfulness in Tony’s voice as he said “Why couldn’t I have just said I’d turn a rolling pin!” A lesson for all; never lose your sense of humour!
The Lid
Tony now mounted a circular blank on a screw chuck-and-spacer. First he trued up the edge, and then the face..He then created a spigot to match the already fashioned ‘ledge’ inside the box. Before reversing, he created a pleasing dome
he first thing to be emphasised regarding this item is safety! Just as the result is a dramatic, eye-catching 3 cornered, lidded
box, so the process involves off-centre turning of quite a perilous kind. Not for the faint-hearted.
Actually, there was a 2 for the price of 1 aspect to this item, since Tony had glued 2 pieces together to produce his initial blank: a 127mm (5”) cube of mahogany. This is held between centres diagonally, with a small flat on each holding area. Tony recommends a 2 prong drive at the headstock, driven well in. Be sure to check tool rest clearance before starting up, by revolving the piece fully through 360°.
At this point Tony put up a piece which had been partly worked on. The blank ends up in a conical shape, with the tapered end facing toward the tailstock. For sanding Tony recommends using a sanding block. He reversed the piece, gripping the narrow end in the headstock in a compression hold using very deep “shark” jaws.
Now comes the delicate procedure of hollowing the 3 cornered end of the piece, so as to create the actual box/container. One could not be too careful at this point. For safety, it is a good tip to apply a piece of tape to the tool rest marking the extremity of the wings of the spinning piece. Tony began to work his way down with the gouge, through the diagonal remnant of the original block. He left about 38mm (1½”) of stock at the centre, for stability. The RPM was increased. A nice concave curve began to emerge on the wings, so he began to remove the centre section.
February’s meeting saw Tony Lally triumph in the face of adversity while demonstrating how to make a three cornered
winged box as Pacelli O’Rourke reports.
T
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Colm McIntyre (Advanced)
Rich Varney (Experienced)
John Duff (Beginners)
Competition News
Photographs by
Hugh Flynn
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Advanced Total Dec Jan Feb
Michael Fay 33 15 11 7
Frank Gallagher 23 13 5 5
Cecil Barron 23 5 5 13
Tony Lally 21 5 7 9
Colm McIntyre 20 5 15
Joe O'Neill 19 9 5 5
Henry East 15 15
Albert Sloan 15 9 6
Seamus Carter 13 13
Sean Ryan 11 11
Pat M. Walsh 11 11
Tony Hartney 6 6
Martin O'Halloran 5 5
Pat J. Walsh 5 5
Experienced Total Dec Jan Feb
Willie Reville 32 15 6 11
Rich Varney 30 0 15 15
Stephen Harbourne 27 11 11 5
Gerry Ryan 23 5 13 5
Pacelli O'Rourke 23 5 9 9
Graham Brislane 15 9 6
Jonathan Wigham 13 13
John Owens 10 5 5
Paddy Finn 7 7
Frank Maguire 7 7
Tom Delaney 5 5
Sean Murtagh 5 5
Beginners Total Dec Jan Feb
Peter Curran 22 15 7
John Duff 15 15
Seamus McKeefry 13 13
Paul Murtagh 13 13
Frank Trappe 11 11
Noel White 11 11
Vincent Whelan 9 9
Dean Dawson 9 9
Artistic Total Dec Jan Feb
Frank Gallagher 24 15 9
Gerry Ryan 22 11 11
Cecil Barron 15 15
Joe O'Neill 13 13
Colm Hyland 13 13
There was another fantastic turnout for the February competition and
the judges had a tough task separating twenty four hollow forms and
four artistic pieces across the four categories. Colm McIntyre, Rich
Varney, John Duff and Cecil Barron were selected as the winners.
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How many turners does it take to... The level of audience participation up until
to this point was nothing compared to what
was about to follow. The live centre had
become jammed in the tail stock and a
huddle around the lathe ensued as some of
the finest minds in the chapter came
together to tackle the problem.
It was like watching the Krypton Factor on
Mogodon as gradually brain power turned
to brute force in an ever increasingly
desperate attempt to prize metal away from
metal. Finally success was declared and with
the Steb centre (now in pieces) removed
from the lathe, John duly finished his fruit.
With some time remaining, John turned to
working on one of the cored bowl blanks
that Gerry Ryan had picked up from Glenn
Lucas and brought to the meeting. The jovial
atmosphere continued, but John was able to
turn down the bowl uninterrupted. So
ended a great afternoon.
I’ll definitely try to make it over for these
workshops more often! For those who have
not been to one, you should really try to go,
if you get the chance. They are a really
friendly gathering, where the audience is far
more part of the demonstration often
influencing what is turned and how.
Rich Varney.
n unexpected opportunity to take an
afternoon off of work, provided me
with the welcome chance to go to
the February Wednesday workshop at the
scout hall.
Joe McLoughlin had arranged for Paddy
Kelly, who combines a little woodturning
with his real passion for working with
leather, to do a demonstration.
Paddy had brought a number of leather
items he has made including belts and
wallets in addition to some examples of
clocks he has made.
Paddy took his audience through his method
for making a clock. He started by showing us
a picture of two horses and tracing the
outline over to a piece of leather. He then
proceeded to cut the outline into the piece.
I was surprised at just how tough the leather
was and how hard the cutting tool was
being hit into it. Paddy showed that these
cuts were not piercing right through the
hide. The tool that Paddy used at this point,
he informed us, had a ceramic tip. On close
inspection it looked far more fragile than
one might expect and seemed pretty blunt.
Paddy rubbed the tip against his skin to
enforce the point that it was not sharp or
dangerous. Its performance on the leather
belied all of this though and we were told
that the tool would perform better than
steel and not need sharpening.
With the basic outline in place Paddy
proceeded to texture the picture with a
variety of tools. He then described how he
paints the leather explaining that he builds
up colour with as many as sixteen coats
before spraying with lacquer.
With the leather part completed Paddy
explained how he glues it to a turned frame
to make the clock. While no turning was
actually done during the demonstration, this
was an interesting insight into how turning
can be mixed with other disciplines to
produce unusual items.
After a short coffee break John Doran
stepped up to the lathe with the mission to
turn some fruit ahead of the March
competition. Now this was a demonstration
of turning by committee, if I’ve ever seen
one. At every stage John was interrupted
with suggestions from the floor covering
everything from which end of the pear
should face the headstock to ideas for
changes to shape and offsetting the turned
fruit in the chuck. I noted that the person
who put forward the latter suggestion was
well out of the line of fire should reduced
grip have proved insufficient!
A
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