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Gallery 2: March’s Meeting Dave Foote, Chris West and Bill Willets… (The Romsey Group) |
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One of Dave Foote’s legacies, from his
2007/8 chairmanship, will be a return to more hands-on turning in the club.
The Romsey local group (Dave Foote, Chris West and Bill Willets), which Dave
has formed from members in his locality, treated the rest of the membership
to a demonstration of how to make a Dave made the seat and one leg with Chris
and Bill turning a leg a piece. Keeping with tradition, the seat was of elm
and the legs were of ash. Dave drilled the holes for the legs with a
sawtooth bit. He had a cunning angled sled which ran between the lathe
bed-bars and was pushed forward by the tailstock quill. |
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Chris West made the first leg to a pattern
drawn by Bill. Bill then made a second leg. Although it has to be said that Bill’s
leg bore more resemblance to his pattern than to Chris’s leg. Finally Dave’s
leg looked nothing like the pattern or the other two legs ;-) However, all three legs were the right
length and looked sufficiently alike for the differences to disappear when
the stool was assembled, as I’m sure you’ll agree. All in all, it was a fun evening with lots
of joshing and the shavings flew… Jon |
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