April's demonstration was attended by a full house who were treated to a feast of different types of
turning techniques by Rocky Donnachie who showed us how to make "Smoking Men" Rocky was very entertaining
keeping the audience laughing and paying close attention. These little figureines have a lot of potential
for all turners. A lot of different techniques are needed.
Our competition was for a laminated
turning and was well supported. The standard of the entries gave judges John McBride and Tom McCosh some
difficulties in choosing the winners.
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Take a block of Sycamore and turn up the base of the figurine, sand to a finish
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Reverse the base and finish the base, then start on the body
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Hollow the inside of the body, then start the head shape
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Finish the head shape, sand to a finish and mark for the mouth, eyes and arms
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Mark drill holes with a bradawl, drill mouth nose and eye holes in the head
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Drill arm holes, part off the body/head turning then start on the Hat
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Sizing the Hat, finish the hat and start on the top of the legs
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Start on one of the hands, drill the hole, the finished hand
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Start on the legs, leaving a ring for the boot, size the spigot with a spanner
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Turn the nose, the boots and split the boot and scarf turning into 2 parts
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The boots, 1 leg, base, hat, base, body with nose fitted
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Mark for the holes in the base and here is one prepared earlier
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Rocky used superglue for the demo, but any wood glue will do. Use spirit dyes to colour the wood and
carve the waistcoat if you want more detail. Do not sand above 320 if you want the spirit dye to get
into the wood.
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Cutting the arms to shape using a little jig
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Rocky's Army of smoking men he brought with him
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The man Rocky made for us today
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1st Charlie Calvin
A laminated bowl
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2nd Peter Lyons
Both side of a laminated rolling pin
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3rd Eugene Grimley
A laminated bowl
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