August 2013

July was a club evening, where we welcomed Tim Lawson back to demonstrate how to cut up a large log during the first part of the evening, followed by Jeff Cordery demonstrating his bowlsaver. We were very grateful to Jon Paine for providing 2 extremely large pieces of cherry and also bringing more timber to sell.
Tim started by cutting 3” off the ends of the large log to remove the cracking produced by end shrinkage. He then marked out the log to indicate how best to remove the pith from the centre of the log, if left in the wood will split from that point.