Another “quiet” Saturday morning.
YEA RIGHT!
The Friday night setting up pretty much as usual albeit for two things, first Brian came as a result of my mentioning it last club night, after hearing what we do and so seeing our set up he was suitably amazed at what he saw and heard, there you go, I do encourage our senior members to pop into see us on a Saturday morning but sadly not to many to date, but those that do…….as did Brian, the tool show in London in the morning kept him from popping in but hopefully next month, I’ll keep you posted. I’ll take this opportunity to invite you to see what we get up to here at junior club, no obligation, free tea, coffee and Banana cake. Next meeting themed Pirates of the Caribbean on sat Dec 13th 9.00am at the club house.
Second thing was Kim has dug out his old Record lathe and adapted it for easy transport and we set it up tonight, Mike is working with young Sam who wants to make a pair of drum sticks. Tomorrow will be practice and making the pair for real Mike has invited Sam to his workshop where they can spend more time on the project, which is very much appreciated by everybody. I think that’s four senior turners teaching at home, very commendable, these juniors are so enthusiastic we have to give them every opportunity we can. All four have CRB disclosures and insurance.
Now to this morning, sorry I’ll re-write that…Now to this exciting morning (Nikky) we had our usual good morning chat and news letter with the usual chorus of Dec 13th which is our next club meeting and away they went, turning, pyrography, painting etc. Kim and I turn with the 12’s an under, we suggest things but its always their choice what to turn, not today, I told Kieran your turning first and your turning a barrel, Pirates of the Caribbean is our theme for December and I asked him “what would you keep in a barrel on board a ship? Gunpowder” was his very excited reply; those of you that know Kieran understand the logic of his reply.
So away we went with this lump of 4” x 4” pine, barrel shape not a problem, turned the top end hollow into the pretend lid, pencil marked the 4 steel bands round and cut it off, I passed a very excited Kieran over to Nikky and pointed to the oil paints for the bands and the word Gunpowder, thinking that was that I proceeded to turn an onion with Jordan, we hadn’t done much when standing in front of us is young Kieran, bit of a sad face asking me if I could sand off these black stain splashes? How did that happen I asked? He took me up the other end of the hall to show me!
Well it
was busy to say the least, poor Nikky, looked through the oil paints and there
wasn’t a black so she took the colours next to the box, took off the lid, tipped
it towards the plate and squeezed, not something you should do with Chestnut
spirit dyes, and there it was, all over the yellow wall, radiator and serving
hatch doors and frame.
I don’t need to tell you what we all talked about during the break do I? well these things happen don’t they, with a lot of hard work from Nikky by late Saturday night it was cleaned, emulsioned, undercoated and ready for the gloss in the morning, by 8am on the Sunday the gloss was done and you didn’t know we’d been there, well done Nikky especially when you learn she had a houseful of visitors staying over that weekend.
So after that everything else is quite boring so it just leaves me to say, this will be one meeting the juniors won’t let us forget, so with the hall tidy and clean apart from the modern art on the wall, its doors locked and there goes another most unusually exciting junior club meeting.
Boots November 2008
PS
We encourage the juniors to look closely and record things around them as there are many different things that can inspire your tuning ideas……not quite what I had in mind but brilliant…Young Thomas had presence of mind to grab the camera and take a picture of the stain on the wall, cant understand why this is the only picture I have of today? You have to laugh don’t you………