I was lucky to be in Invercargill to see an exhibition by the Southland Woodworkers Guild recently. I know a couple of the members but have never managed to get to any of their meetings or seen any of their displays. Very impressed by the quality and variety of goods on display. Some were available […]
Received this email recently: Hi Gary, My name is Anuj Agarwal. I’m Founder of Feedspot. I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog Gary @ Hugo’s Woodshop has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 50 Woodturning Blogs on the web. https://blog.feedspot.com/woodturning_blogs/ I personally give you a high-five and want to thank […]
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below; it is a bit light this month! Interesting article about a visit to a local school Some good looking turnings for show and tell items but unfortunately no general woodwork items; for most members it is still a woodturning club. [pdf-embedder url=”http://hugoswoodshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-09-Cubbyhouse-September-17.pdf” title=”2017-09 Cubbyhouse September 17″]
Plank Competition I have spent a lot of my time on my Shire Woodworking Club plank entry; but did manage to finish it on time. See separate post regarding the making of the train set below: Pen Sales Sold a pen out on eBay out of the blue; I had forgot that I had […]
This was my entry in the 2017 Shire Woodworking Club pine plank competition: We received a dressed radiata pine plank (approximately 1500mm x 290mm x 19mm or equivalent). The main rule is: There is no restriction on the number, size, type and design of the entry providing it is used to make one or more toys […]
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Great picture of Ray Elyard in his workshop; I have never managed to create as many streamers during one turning. Geoff Tong showing his segmented segmented lidded box that he presented at the Shire Woodworkers Club the previous week. Some good looking boxes for show and tell […]
David, my wife’s 13 year old nephew recently got a new canon EOS camera for his birthday so yesterday I setup my small light box for him to experiment with. I setup my three lights for him to use; the front one is on a tripod which makes it very flexible. I also provided […]
Workshop Update – a bit of turning and buying Helped out at a working bee / wood clearout at Shire Woodworking club during the week and was able to restrict myself to only bring a small amount home. The PNG Rosewood block has some major cracks so will need to be cut into pieces for […]