Club Night Report
Wednesday 10th August 2022
Club Night Photos for Wednesday 10th August 2022 - Guest Demonstrator - Steve Heeley
Steve's demonstration for the evening was the making of a 'square to round' Bud Vase from scrap wood - a somewhat unattractive piece of spalted beech - approx. 10" long by 4 ½" wide by 3" thick. The part would be textured and coloured.
Steve started with the block between centres and cut a tenon on the tailstock end - he then cut the pommel (a curved cut from square/ rectangular to round) for the vase base. The headstock end was roughed out to round and the second pommel cut to determine the height of the rectangular section.
A mini-Arbortech power carver was used to texture the rectangular sides - a random pattern, not too deep - using the spindle indexer to lock the part into position. Steve then painted the textured faces with red acrylic paint - drying was speeded up via a hair dryer. This was followed with a spray coat of ebonising (black) lacquer. The hair dryer was used again to speed the drying. The pommel curves were cleaned up to remove any overspray.
The part was reversed and held in the 4-jaw chuck, with tailstock support. The neck section of the vase was roughed and finished along with drilling a hole in the end. The flared neck was hollowed into the drilled hole. The textured faces were lightly sanded to remove some of the colouring and to highlight the original timber surface.
A jam chuck was made and used to hold the neck end whilst the base of the vase was finished and undercut slightly. Three different size box wood plugs were turned with a domed head and shoulder, to fit the holes in the textured face to complete the decoration. These were glued in position. A final spray of lacquer was used to make the colours 'pop'.
Once again Steve treated us to something different - that contained multiple elements, skills, techniques and ideas. He went from what was very close to being firewood, to an elegant, decorated bud vase - complimented by his trademark comments of 'just one more cut', 'this is how I like to do it' and 'if you don't like it, then don't do it'. A great evening - thanks Steve!
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The Display Table was well supported -
with an array of interesting items.
Ken Crittle showed two natural edge, very (very) thin
walled, mulberry bowls. Tim Mortimer presented a
coloured hollow pot with alternative design finial lids in maple and, a
shaped rim vase coloured with green Chestnut stain. Bill
Savage displayed two hand-chased, threaded, tape measure boxes,
made in yew and box wood. Cornelius Matthews
showed a goblet and two drinking cups - all with charred rims as a way
of 'waterproofing' the timber - which was sapele. A complete chess set
and board, made in sycamore and sapele was displayed by Mike
Pearce.
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