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| Ulster Chapter Seminar 2007 |
| The Ulster Seminar audience |
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About 60 delegates attended the Ulster Chapter Seminar of the IWG at the Woodshed, Templepatrick to
be entertained by Tony Wilson RPT from Yorkshire. We were also well represented by our own Chapter Turners,
Billy Henry RPT, Eric Turner RPT and David O'Neill, our own skew wizard. Competition Pieces can be seen click the link Beginners Spindle Beginners Faceplate Junior Open Spindle Open Faceplate |
| If there is no name against a competition piece, it is because I did not write down the names of the winner. If you know who won what please email me |
| Photos of the League Competiton winners and Junior seminar Competition Winners |
| Tony Wilson in demo mode |
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| He started with a winged bowl |
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| If you look at Tony's eyes you can see him watching the top of the turnng, not the end of the chisel. |
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| Sand with the lathe stopped, finish and turn the blank around |
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| Keep your fingers clear of this rotating edge |
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| You can make this into a box or a bowl |
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| Sand whilst stopped and you have a beautiful turning |
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| A tri winged bowl from a cube. |
| Billy Henry also demonstrated a Vesuvius Bowl up stairs from a piece of alder |
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| Eric Turner made a three legged stool for the audience upstairs |
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| David O'Neill made 4 identical small table legs showing the techniques he uses to make them the same |
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| After an excellent lunch in Sam's Marquee we watched Tony make a long unsupported spindle for the lid of a decorative goblet he had made previously |
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| Andrew Oneill asked Tony how to tunr and apple so Tony asked for a bit of Yew branchwood |
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| Beginners Spindle Competition |
| 1st Place, Jim Haughey |
| 2nd Place |
| Beginners Faceplate Competition |
| 1st Place, Michael Flynn |
| 2nd Place |
| Junior Competition |
| 1st Place Andrew O'Neill |
| 2nd Place Chloe Brashaw |
| 3rd Place, Andrew Ogborne |
| Open Faceplate Competition |
| 1st Place, Eugene Grimley, the Guild Hon Sec |
| 2nd Place Arthur McGuckin |
| 3rd Place Billy Ferris |
| Open Spindle Competition |
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1st Place, David O'Neill. David has donated this Gavel to the Ulster Chapter for use at the AGM |
| 2nd Place, A delicate Candle Snuffer from Colin Brashaw |
| 3rd Place, Bruce Low |
| 4th Place |
| Colin Brashaw 1st overall |
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| 2nd Bruce Low 3rd John McBride |
| 1st Andrew O'Neill |
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| 2nd Jim Forde 3rd Joan Henderson |
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Junior winners at Seminar 2nd Chloe Brashaw 3rd Andrew Ogborn 1st Andrew O'Neill |