June 2014

Our May evening was advertised as another open hands-on club night, so we tried to demonstrate and try some different aspects of the workshop. We had the opportunity to try our hands at different types of finishing, grinding our own tools and using a bandsaw, apart from our usual activities.

Much interest was shown in the bandsaw analysis given by our chairman but apart from David Buskell demonstrating how to use it for things other than bowl banks, I am not sure any member had a go despite free blanks being available.

Only a few members brought tools to try the sharpeners available. The TruGrind was the most popular, with John Sutton doing a great job sharpening and demonstrating. The Sorby jig was not used as it is more time consuming to setup.