Berkshire Woodturners AssociationAnother demonstrator well known to BWA. A master of the skew chisel - many of us owe our confidence with the skew to being taught by Colwin. Without doubt one of the best teachers of woodturning, working at the Axminster Tools Skill Centre and demonstrating at their stores. Those who know Colin will know his…
Typically we would hold a BWA Social Evening with a speed turning competition, some nibbles, the Keith Sherwood Trophy and the annual prize giving
This year we will run the Christmas Social Evening as a Zoom meeting.
A new demonstrator to BWA, Sue Harker will demonstrate open segmented turning.
She has developed an Open Segment Wheel to make creating open segmented items much simpler and she will be demonstrating this in her demo.
This will be an Interactive Live Demo shared with Kennet Valley.
Terry Smart and his Chestnut Products Team have come up with yet another interesting initiative to keep us woodturners and woodworkers engaged during this Covid period.
While Terry manages to answer questions on the finishes many of us use in our workshop, he always acknowledges that he is not a woodturner and therefore struggles to anwser questions that are more about technique.
So, as an extention of their Conkers Live Series, they will run a YouTube based question and answer session based the BBC's Question Time programme.