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Volume 28, No 03 June 2011 No. 287

Correspondence to

the Secretary (TBA)

Woodgroup SA Inc web page:-

www.woodgroupsa.org.au

Opinions expressed in this Newsletter are not necessarily those of the Editor, the Board of Directors, or the Executive Committee of Woodgroup SA Inc.

WOODGROUP CONTACT DETAILS

Contact the Secretary (TBA)

Contact the Newsletter Editor (Roger Parker) 08 8278 3906

Email - parkerjr@adam.com.au

What’s on

8—10 July Tools and More Expo (in con-junction with the Building and Home im-provement show (see page 3) 12—14 Aug SAturn (see pages 14—15) 5—6 Nov Terry Baker Workshop hosted by Northern Turners (see page 4)

Woodgroup SA— Member Clubs

Club Contact Phone

Northern Turners Inc Dennis Murray 08 8263 9288

Western Woodworkers Inc Rena Hoare 08 8352 3207

Murrayland Turners Inc Jack Hunt 08 8572 7265

Sculptors & Carvers Inc Graham Jones 08 8260 2827

Whyalla Woodies Inc Robin Sandy 08 8645 0047

Hills Woodworkers Inc Ed Horton 08 8389 7246

Copper Coast Woodworkers Inc Graham Nicolle 08 8821 4882

South Oz Scrollers Inc David Chaplin 08 8377 0529

Riverland Woodworkers Inc Brian Lock 08 8586 4916

Toymendous Inc Ron Crowhurst 08 8264 0034

Southern Turners Inc John Edyvean 08 8290 1992

President‘s Report This report is in a somewhat different tone to previous reports by John Rowe. Events that transpired at the last Board Meeting of Woodgroup SA caught a lot of dele-gates and executive officers off guard. It highlighted the fact that if individuals do not fully understand the ramifications and consequences of their actions, unpredictable re-sults can occur. A bit like a game of chess, really. An anecdote that springs to mind is one that a past mentor instilled in me at an early part of my working career; “Experience is Learned, but Respect is Earned”, meaning that just because a person is

put in a position of trust and authority, respect does not come automatically, but must be earned and having respect for others. I also have a personal motto along the lines of the Golden Rule, namely “Treating people as you would have them Treat you.” Another point I would like to make is that Woodgroup SA is a bit like a bus load of tourists visiting the Outback. If something was to happen to the driver, how would the passengers get back to civilization? We all need to think about having more drivers, because we don’t want to be stranded in the Outback and eventually becoming part of the blowing sand. On a lighter note, Roger Parker is reminding us all to help out with contributions to this newsletter. So if you don’t have any good “woody” articles, maybe a thumbnail history of one of your club’s mem-bers, or even tell us about some other interest you may have.

(Continued on page 2)

Neville Pudney

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Also, please let me advise you of the upcoming Tools + More Expo, to be held on July 8-10, in conjunction with the Building and Home Im-provement Show, held at the Wayville Show-grounds by Kym Jones Exhibitions. No doubt the Exhibitions committee will be contacting the clubs for your usual support for this event, billed to be our improved version of that other show that does not appear to be coming to Adelaide any more. Many interstate vendors will be there, so let’s give it our very best patronage. Lastly, another catch phrase from a very large computer company from many years ago, but still very relevant today:

Lead, Follow or get out of the way!

Neville Pudney President (Elect)

(Continued from page 1)

Win a Trend Airshield Pro! As an introductory promotion for the new im-

proved Trend Airshield powered respirator, mem-bers of WoodgroupSA have the chance to win an Airshield for themselves and also one for the

club.

Just go to the Macwood web site www.macwood.com.au and click on the link on the home page or fill in an entry form at Mac-

wood International.

Entries close on 30th June 2011.

The new Airshield is on display at

Macwood International

For Sale Technatool Wood Lathe, with extended base, nova chuck, on strong bench. $800.00.

Plus various turning tools, priced separately. Ryobi Thicknesser. 2hp 12" capacity. $250.00. Cast Iron Router Table and Stand, with Bosch GOF router. $250.00. DeWalt Radial Arm Saw, 10" with base. $200.00. Durden Combination Woodworking Machine.(rips, cross cuts, planes, dowells) with 2TCT blades, dado blade. $200.00. Triton Wet Stone Sharpener. $60.00. Woodfast 14" Band Saw. $600.00. Varial Speed Drill Press. $275.00. Woodfast 12" Disc Sander. $125.00. Triton Battery Dust Mask. $50.00. Dust Extractor, on mobile base. $65.00. Various Hand Planes, Tools, separate prices.

Contact: Derrick Bradshaw on 8558 2826 or

by email at dubradshaw@bigpond.com

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The expo will showcase everything

for hobbyists, people who love DIY

renovations plus trades people who

work with tools & machinery.

Products include hand & power tools,

metal & wood-working machinery,

equipment & supplies; in fact everything

needed to get the job done.

The event will be packed with

interactive demos & Expo sponsor

Woodgroup SA will present a large

Gallery of fi nished Woodwork plus an

Interactive Area of woodturning, carving,

sculpting & expert woodworking advice.

For further details contact... Kym Jones on 08 8177 1499

E: kym@kjex.com.au

Another Kym Jones Exhibition

Proud to be SA Owned & Operated

www.kjex.com.au

The New TOOLS + more expo will be

staged alongside the very successful

Master Builders SA – Building &

Home Improvement Show, July 8 to

10, 2011 at Adelaide Showground.

NEW

Adelaide Showground

July 8-10 2011

TOOLS +

more EXPO

BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT SHOW

INCORPORATING THE “TOOLS & MORE” SHOW

8-10TH JULY 2011

When Woodgroup SA joined forces with Kym Jones Exhibi-tions in 2009 Kym had an objective to incorporate a wood feature as part of the Building & Home Improvement Show. Since then he has been promoting the concept amongst traders and in doing so he has found that some of the larger companies are diversifying into different types of machinery other than their tradi-tional focus. They were suggesting that if he could broaden the focus of a new Show they would likely support it. Woodgroup SA indicated a keen interest to see the concept eventuate and is pleased to support Kym in announcing the launch of his new show. This year in 2011 he has launched the “TOOLS & MORE” Show as part of the Building and Home Improvement Show that he is advertising will ”showcase everything for hobbyists, people who love

DIY renovations plus trades people who work with tools and ma-

chinery. Products include hand and power tools, metal and wood-

working machinery, equipment and supplies, in fact everything con-

sumers and trades people need to get the job done”

In his publicity flyer Woodgroup SA leads the listed Special Features and he has allocated us a stand virtually in the centre of the Wayville Pavilion where this show will be held. While the show will not take up all of this pavilion it will take up about half and can ac-commodate up to 90 sites. Woodgroup SA has an excellent position and should have streams of patrons going past on all sides. The stand is of similar size and layout to last year. Eight of our member Clubs will participate in the Show pro-moting the benefits of membership and demonstrating woodworking skills such as wood turning, sculpture and carving, scroll sawing, toy-making and pyrography to list the main crafts. Additionally the Exhibition Committee is staging a Gallery of Woodwork “Creations from wood 2011” which has been advertised in the last newsletter along with relevant information for entering the gallery. The admission fee for the event is $10 and that will give pa-trons entry to both the Building & Home Improvement Show and the Tools & More. Running over three days it is shaping up to be a show-case for the hobbyist whether it be in the woodworking or metal working crafts or as trades people. As we get closer to the date you will see a significant range and amount of advertising in a two pronged attack 1) as part of the pro-motion for the Building & Home Improvement show and 2) a sepa-rate campaign targeting DIY, Hobbyist and Trades people. Keep your eyes and ears open when it starts probably in June but certainly early July. I believe that Carroll’s Woodturning Supplies is planning to attend the event and I am sure our members will be keen to see his stand at an Adelaide Show. Neville Pudney will be now be convening this Woodgroup SA Promotion 2011 as I will be “swanning” it around Australia. I hope the launch is successful and ask the clubs to get behind Kym and pro-mote it among their members as it will have interest for woodwork-ers, both young and the mature aged, male and female alike.

Neil Schulz

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TERRY BAKER TERRY BAKER TERRY BAKER TERRY BAKER WEEKEND DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOPWEEKEND DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOPWEEKEND DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOPWEEKEND DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOP

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hosted by Northern Turners Inc at Torrens Val-hosted by Northern Turners Inc at Torrens Val-hosted by Northern Turners Inc at Torrens Val-hosted by Northern Turners Inc at Torrens Val-ley Christian School.ley Christian School.ley Christian School.ley Christian School. ( c oordinators:( c oordinators:( c oordinators:( c oordinators:---- Brian Purcell 08 82626551 Brian Purcell 08 82626551 Brian Purcell 08 82626551 Brian Purcell 08 82626551 and Tim Skilton )and Tim Skilton )and Tim Skilton )and Tim Skilton ) $90.00 for Woodgroup members ( $110.00 $90.00 for Woodgroup members ( $110.00 $90.00 for Woodgroup members ( $110.00 $90.00 for Woodgroup members ( $110.00 non members ) includes 2 day demonstration non members ) includes 2 day demonstration non members ) includes 2 day demonstration non members ) includes 2 day demonstration workshop, morning and afternoon teas and workshop, morning and afternoon teas and workshop, morning and afternoon teas and workshop, morning and afternoon teas and catered finger food lunch catered finger food lunch catered finger food lunch catered finger food lunch –––– all day tea and all day tea and all day tea and all day tea and coffee.coffee.coffee.coffee.

Terry's works have been exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. He has won numerous awards and his beautiful wooden forms are represented in many public collections includ-ing the Power House Museum Contemporary Australian Art Craft Collection. The Artbank Collection of the Australian Government, the Fuller Craft Museum in the USA, and in many private collections internationally. In 1995 he was awarded the Churchill Fellowship Award and has studied in the USA, Sweden and the UK.

More information on workshop content and More information on workshop content and More information on workshop content and More information on workshop content and booking details will appear in the Newsletter, booking details will appear in the Newsletter, booking details will appear in the Newsletter, booking details will appear in the Newsletter, on our website, as well as being forwarded to on our website, as well as being forwarded to on our website, as well as being forwarded to on our website, as well as being forwarded to your clubs shortly ( in the meantime, more info your clubs shortly ( in the meantime, more info your clubs shortly ( in the meantime, more info your clubs shortly ( in the meantime, more info can be sought by searching Terry Baker can be sought by searching Terry Baker can be sought by searching Terry Baker can be sought by searching Terry Baker Woodturner on the web)Woodturner on the web)Woodturner on the web)Woodturner on the web)

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My word …

The lucky clubs rostered to provide contributions for the next newsletter are: Murrayland Turners Western Woodworkers Whyalla Woodies

The deadline is 20th July

Roger Parker, (editor)

Roger Parker

Important Bit Number 1

In the past club contributions have been pretty good—some clubs have exceeded their require-ments, most have done the right thing and only one or two have let the side down. However, this year received contributions are only about 50% of the rostered quantity, which really makes things a bit difficult.

There’s a list of the type of article that’s suit-able on page 6 of this newsletter, so please have a look and think about your club’s next article ahead of time. Of course, clubs are not re-stricted to contributing only rostered articles—extra articles are always welcome. And if your club has not supplied an article when it should have, well, you can always make it up. In fact I expect you to!!

Important Bit Number 2

From early July I’ll be off doing the grey no-mad thing until about Christmas time. I’ll still be editing the newsletter and my email address will stay the same, but I won’t be able to re-ceive hard copy articles by mail. So, if you’re not able to send your articles by email, please get someone in your club to help you.

Important Bit Number 3

Many of you will be aware that Les Loffler, long time member of Southern Turners and member of the International Wood Collectors has been seriously ill in hospital recently. Well, I spoke to Faye this week and although Les is still hospitalised, his rehabilitation is under way and he’s looking to get his scroll-saw set up in the ward shortly!

Get well soon, Les!

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Trees ‘n’ Timber

Black BoxBlack BoxBlack BoxBlack Box

Eucalyptus largiflorens

Last weekend saw the Riverland Woodworkers host the Merry Month of May event. It was a great weekend

and they deserve praise for their efforts. More-so they are to be congratulated on the work they have done in restoring their current clubrooms, former Tech Studies workshops, but not used for the past 20 years or so except as an animal shel-ter. I thought that I would continue with the River-land theme and therefore chose a tree of the re-gion, Black Box, for this article.

Derivation of namesDerivation of namesDerivation of namesDerivation of names Eucalyptus – as mentioned in the past, from Greek ‘ eu ’ , and ‘ k alyptos ’ meaning well covered and referring to the cap ( operculum ) which covers and protects the bud. largiflorens – from Latin largus – meaning abundant and florens – blooming, referring to the flowers, although it is a little misleading as the flowers are small and inconspicuous. The common name refers to the dark colour of the bark and that it belongs to a group of euca-lypts collectively known as boxes. Boxes are identified as having bark which is persistent to the trunk, branches and often to the twigs.

The Tree.The Tree.The Tree.The Tree. Black Box is a small to medium sized tree, usu-ally growing between 10 and 20 metres with di-ameters up to 600 mm. They usually have a dense and spreading crown, often with a straggly form.

Ron Allen

The bark is dark grey to black in colour, hard and persistent – i.e. common to most of the tree in-cluding the small branches. The bark is finely fis-sured, but on old trees becomes deeply furrowed on the trunks. The trunk is often short and of poor form. The foliage is typically dull green to bluish green and is readily recognisable in mixed forests. The mature leaves are long and spear shaped, up to 150 mm long.

The buds, flowers and fruit occur in numerous umbels of 7 to 11, which then form large terminal groups ( probably the reason for the reference to largiflorens ) . The tiny flowers ( up to 3mm

Black box, at Renmark

Leaves and buds

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Types of articles required for the Newsletter ...

∗ Club activities/developments ∗ Interesting projects ∗ Recognition of individual excellence/

achievements ∗ Member profiles ∗ Members and their sheds ∗ Woodworking processes/tips.

each ) are usually white but sometimes turn pink with age.

HabitatHabitatHabitatHabitat. Black Box has a wide distribution, covering most of the Murray-Darling basin. It grows as far north as Injune in Queensland, through much of west-ern Victoria and in the Gawler River area in South Australia. It is common around much of the River Murray in South Australia, especially in the Riverland. Black Box typically grows in the heavy clay soils of the floodplains adjoining the river systems. River Red Gum is the primary tree of our riverine systems, with Black Box adjoining it on the flood plains. Occasionally the two are intermixed. Other trees often associated with Black Box are Moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata), River Cooba (Acacia stenophylla) and Broughton Willow (Acacia salicina)

TimberTimberTimberTimber. Black Box is a hard and heavy and durable tim-ber with a recorded density of about 1090 kg per cub metre. It is not a commercial timber and therefore little is known about its properties. The wood in the branches has pale yellow brown sapwood and brown heartwood, while mature wood has much darker brown to red heartwood.

It has a fine grain and turns very well. In my ex-perience, branch material dries with little de-grade, but larger sections need care when dry-ing as they seem to check readily. As with most of our woods it pays to apply end sealer soon after cutting sections. Although not common, I recently saw some bowls turned from Black Box burls. They showed beautiful figure and colour and were all very distinctive.

Ron Allen

Old wood bowl, branch wood egg

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Networking Nights—12th May

The topic for this meeting was ‘Not Wood’ which resulted in some vey interesting and unusual items

On the left a work by Charles Greig called ‘On Golden Bowl’, made from epoxy resin with embedded copper and gold leaf , molded then with the centre turned out. On the right a bowl made with a similar technique, this time with embedded timber pieces.

Some unusual pens (left) from Mel Pearce—top is per-spex, glued in layers (from tip to clip), centre is acrylic and bottom is from leather also glued in layers. On the right, key-rings and a letter opener in acrylic.

Tip detail

This cranky tool, originally seen by John Edyvean in an old (1993) Woodturning magazine retailing at 23 quid (pounds sterling), was bought for a good price but hasn’t been used yet, prompting several requests for feedback when John finally sticks the sharp end in some wood.

An acrylic pen by Ray Hoare, in a snazzy box (bet the box is no longer available from Ray’s supplier!)

Franco Lanfranchi brought along several ‘not woods’ - a piece of soap stone and a tool (not shown) for carving it, a turned stone disc, and a band-sawn rectangle and an oval , a plum wood compact with a leather hinge, a Tagua nut (also known as vegetable ivory) that has been partially carved, and some ferals (shavings mixed with epoxy to form pen blanks) which Mel is going to turn.

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Networking Nights—all Woodgroup members welcome!

Next meeting: Thursday,

Venue: San Giorgio Community Center

(Henry St, Payneham)

Time: 7.00pm

TOPIC: ‘Experiments’ - something you are trying to achieve, but

haven’t completed (everyone to be prepared to offer advice and

suggestions.

Poured pewter inlay from Roger Humphris (melt the pewter until ‘til it gives off a blue haze - it pours well at this temperature.) Also from Roger the tray at the right (shown front and back) holding a collection of ‘not wood’ - boxes with lids of Burra Creek stone, camel bone bobbins, aluminum bobbins and miniature goblets, polystyrene fish-ing floats, ribbon stone buttons from Lake Argyle etc.

And from John Beswick , left—‘Jelly on a Plate’ - the jelly is laminated acrylics, and what makes it wobble? Well, check out the rubber-band suspension system on the right!

Acrylic bobbins—chloroform dis-solves the surface of the acrylics and allows the colours to pene-trate and mix (a similar technique to colour the jelly). The blanks are then heated and twisted. The block to the right of the bobbins is clocknal (a linen and resin mix) used to make high voltage switch boards and boat propellers.

A bone bobbin etched with the floral emblem of South Australia (Sturt Desert Pea)

A carved slate pig with a quartzite snout.

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Copper Coast Woodworkers

On May 14th, the Copper Coast Woodworkers celebrated their 10th birthday with a day of festivi-ties attended by members of sev-

eral Adelaide clubs. The morning was spent so-cializing in the club’s new workshop where sev-eral woodies were busy carving, turning and scrolling. Workshop coordinator, Bob Petts, brought along a number of striking rustic weed pots he’d turned from an old fence post he came across in WA. He informed us that the post was Raspberry Jam wood, so named because of its smell, and passed around a container of chips to prove it. Although none of us had heard of it at the time, by coincidence it was mentioned in the next issue of the Australian Wood Review in an article about scented woods, identifying it as acacia acuminata.

In the afternoon the focus shifted to the exhibi-tion hall next door, where a huge display of wood items had been set up to show off 10 years of creativity in all areas of the craft. Bryan Salter , master of ceremonies, introduced a num-ber of speakers including Graham and Lee

Nicolle (president and secre-tary, respectively) who gave the club’s history and pre-sented a life-membership to club stalwart John Vayne.

When the speeches were over the cake came in for a bit of atten-tion—the candles, in two spe-cially turned candelabra, were lit, and the cake was cut and distrib-

uted, and Bryan took the opportunity to gouge the crowd by auctioning off the candelabra! The afternoon finished after an abundant afternoon tea, before about 50 indulgent souls reconvened for a convivial evening meal in the Kadina Hotel.

The birthday bash coincided with the area’s Cornish Festi-val, which resulted in a very pleasant few days for those fortunate enough to enjoy the history, parades and exhibi-tions on show throughout the Copper Triangle. Bryan and Margaret certainly dressed for the occasion. Congratulations to all the Copper Coast Woodworkers!

Raspberry jam wood turnings—the fence post

is in the background

Some of displayed items—including carvings, pyrography, turnings, scroll-sawing, intarsia, toys and models!!!

Lee Nicolle,

speechifying

Bob Petts, Syl Guerero and John Vayne

doing the honours

Bryan Salter and

Margaret Skipton

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Club member profileClub member profileClub member profileClub member profile

A brief description of the Life of Mal-colm Oades, Secretary to the Hills

Woodworkers Inc

Malcolm entered this world in 1936 at a small farm in Yorkshire. His father was a farm man-ager, so the family moved several times mostly about Yorkshire, living on farms managed by his dad. Malcolm remembers his mother as a small, wiry energetic, practical woman, who could turn her hand to many jobs, including helping on the farm.

His early education was in very small State Pri-mary schools, except when the family moved briefly to Stratford –on-Avon where he at-tended Shakespeare ’ s old school. Also in later life, he travelled to Ireland and kissed that Blarney Stone. Now we know why we are sad-dled with his glib versions of the minutes of the meetings. Wartime brought incendiary bombs scattered in the fields and that ’ s when his mother hid the children under the kitchen table.

In latter school years his interests included cricket and middle distance running and in both these activities he was quite proficient. About this tie he started to take an interest in wood-craft which was taught at school. Mother dem-onstrated the usefulness of wood by using a wooden clothes prop to chase the bull out of the backyard.

It was at a St Patrick ’ s Day dance that his at-tention was drawn to a lass called Julie with whom he enjoyed fell-walking and camping. Their marriage in 1960 was to last a lifetime. There are three sons and one daughter.

In 1959 Malcolm started his academic career with a research grant to Leeds University. From there he went to Northern Ireland as Assistant Lecturer in Animal Nutrition; then in 1962 he took up a research position in at The Waite Agri-cultural Research Institute. This became his life ’ s work.

As a result of his contribution to the 4 yearly meeting of the Society of Soil Science held in 1968 in Adelaide, he was offered a scholarship at the University of Missouri, Columbia, which started recognition in international circles and therefore a broadening of experience and knowl-edge while working around the world.

The family lived most of the time at Stirling where the children grew up. It was a large old home requiring some renovations, a work that Malcolm enjoyed but his particular satisfaction was in terracing the site with stone walling.

A property was purchased at McLaren Vale, “ T oops Hill ” , where maybe he thought it about time to start testing theory with practical work.. His favourite activities were tractor work and of course as a ‘ solids man ’ improving soil fertil-ity. The wheel had turned and Malcolm ( and now family ) was back in farming. With the fam-ily now grown the house at Stirling had outgrown its usefulness and was sold, and “ Toops Hill ” was also sold and a larger property purchased at Wistow which supplied a new set of challenges. During this time many friends and post-graduate students from Australia and around the world were entertained. Malcom says “ Julie was a Supermum ” . She didn’ t know then what she would face when Malcolm started woodturning.

Ed Horton

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Have you been there lately…?

www.woodgroupsa.org.au

Check it out—often!

In 1996 Malcolm became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences at the Waite and Roseworthy College.

After retirement Mal-colm and Julie moved into Mt Barker where a large shed was built. The children all chipped in to buy a big Vicmarc lathe and that was the begin-ning of the problem.

Malcolm has been making large bowls etc. ever since. A big

red-gum tree in log form was brought from Wis-tow and this has been the genesis of many large items from the big lathe.

In 2004 The Honourable Majorie Jackson-Nelson, then Governor of South Australia, in-vested him with the A.M.

Malcolm has been one of our most pro-ductive turners: bowls, bowls and more bowls, many of which he has sold. It appears the public is prepared to buy big bowls.

Recently the club brought down a very large wal-nut tree and the timber is now approaching use-able condition hence the large walnut platter in

the following photograph.

Julie continued her support of his woodturning through her long illness. After she recently passed away, Malcolm joined with his son Steven in a house at Grange—with a shed, where he is as prolific as ever, but the red-gum logs are nearly gone. The club eagerly awaits his future direction. We know of other sources of red=gum, but we haven ’ t told him yet. His has been a most productive, interesting and satisfying life and there ’ s lots of woodturning to come yet.

Malcolm has been a staunch, helpful and con-stant secretary for the club for most of our exis-tence. We appreciate the amount of time and ef-fort put in on our behalf and because of this we can accept his “ yokes ’ in the minutes and in the club meetings.

Ed Horton

A quiet smile and a big bowl

Ken Filsell passes judgement on a

few of Malcolm’s bowls

The walnut platter in pride of place

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Murrayland mumblings Murrayland mumblings Murrayland mumblings Murrayland mumblings

In the October 2010 News letter I wrote a short article, on a pro-ject to replace some of the bollards along the river frontage at Sturt reserve Murray Bridge. This project was carried out by a

team of Ngarrindjeri carvers and funded by the Murray Bridge Council and Arts SA. The Murrayland Turners hosted and assisted these carvers, who had virtually no experience in wood carving. Ken and Mike from the South Australian Woodcarving academy came down to Murray Bridge on a number of occasions to assist and teach Ngarrindjeri carvers with the help of Alice Jericho, one of our resident carvers.

On Sunday 15th May this project came to its official end. The bollards were unveiled by Ms Trish Hansen, after some words from Murray Bridge Mayor Allan Arbon in front of an audience of about a hundred people, in-cluding both our Federal and State Parliamentary representatives Patrick Secker and Adrian Pederick. The bollards certainly looked very striking painted in black and white, and were a credit to the perseverance, and tenacity of the carvers, because this whole project was beset with problems. The delivery of the bollards was delayed by some weeks due to floods in NSW, and when they did arrive they had obviously been recently felled with little attempt to dress them. The wood naturally cracked badly as they carved, which must have been heart breaking to say the least. After the unveiling all the Ngarrindjeri carvers plus Alice Jericho, who had assisted in carving the last bollard to meet the deadline, were presented with a certificate of merit by Lena Rigney, representing The Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan Arts Advisory committee and also one of the carvers. She presented Ron Nance, Malcolm Daniels and Alice with a card and gift token for their work and assistance. A framed certificate of apprecia-tion was presented to Jack Hunt as President of Murrayland Turners. Recognition must also go to those who willingly assisted when asked to “ s tand in ” on a number of occasions. It was a great example of com-munity cooperation that has not gone unnoticed.

Charles Andre

Charles Andre

RITJARUKI

(Willy Wagtail)

WURURI

(Huntsman Spider)

KRAYI

(Snake)

Nakari

(Stork)

MENPERI

(Frog)

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The Merry Month of May 20011

27—29 May

Hosted by the Riverland Wood-

workers.

Attendance at this year’s event was good with contin-gents from several Woodgroup SA clubs as well as a group from Mildura Woodworkers – and of course, during the weekend many locals also attended which hopefully bodes well for the Riverland Woodies mem-bership. Set up took place on Friday afternoon and was fol-lowed in the evening with a ‘meet and greet’ session at the club’s workshops at the Ral Ral Precinct Craft Centre. That was a great opportunity to see the work the club has done to refurbish and fit out their new premises and to catch up with old friends and make new ones. On Saturday the workshop sessions began with pyro-graphy, scroll-sawing and turning demonstrations and Helen and Owen Harris were on hand with a variety of craft supplies and books to interest old and new wood-workers.

After a lunch of soup and sandwiches provided by the ladies of the Riverland club, the workshop session con-tinued ’til mid afternoon, when everyone took an early mark to get ready for an evening meal at the Lyrup Club. Meeting at 5.30 at the Renmark skate-park a convoy of cars headed for the Lyrup Ferry where we were met and presented with a plate of hors d’oeuvres

which we consumed on the shortest of river cruises (from one side to the other) - then on into Lyrup for a fine meal.

On Sunday morning we returned to the Ral Ral centre for another workshop session which was followed by the official opening of the centre by the mayor of

Renmark, Neil Martinson. The mayor commended the River-land Woodworkers on their efforts in restoring the centre which has stood empty for many years—except for the ingress of pigeons and sheep! The woodwork-ers are the principle us-ers of the centre, how-ever they currently share the premises with a group of local quilters and other craft groups may be incorporated

into the centre in future developments.

After the opening, the demonstrators began packing up and the barbeque was fired up for lunch, but that was far from the end of proceedings. Two auctions were conducted over the next hour—firstly, six bottles of specially labeled vintage port went under the hammer. Of course, one couldn’t bid for it without tasting it first—it turned out to be

a very sweet drop, most if not all of which was knocked down to visitors. The second auction was of

timber. Chester was an experienced auctioneer, but not an expert regarding wood, so Ron Allen was pressed into service as his assessor - seriously dent-ing a number of wallets. Nobody who bought wood will be disappointed and hopefully the Riverland club considers the auctions a success!

Many thanks to Brian, David and the rest of the Riverland Woodworkers for a splendid weekend, and a particular ‘thank you’ must go to the ladies who catered so well for the whole weekend. Warnings about Riverland hospitality were well-founded.

Don’t forget to check out the website for more photos

of this event and the Copper Coast shindig!

Roger Parker

What’s going on? … Something for everyone!

Eyes down and eating!

Mayor Martinson with club

president Brian Lock

unveiling the plaque

Ron and Chester talking

someone out of money!

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SAturn 11SAturn 11 El Shaddai Camping Centre, WellingtonEl Shaddai Camping Centre, Wellington August 12August 12--1414

196 Esplanade Aldinga Beach SA 5173 cate@comstech.com 14 April 2011 Hello everyone Well, it’s happening again this year – your favourite woodturning weekend will be on from 2 pm Fri-day 12th to 3 pm Sunday 14th August at El Shaddai, Wellington. Note the times – we can no longer have access to the campsite before 2 pm on Friday. El Shaddai have a permanent booking for a school group on Friday morning, and no-one is allowed on the premises without a police clearance when children are there. This is standard policy around SA. However, I know you will all set up swiftly and get stuck straight into the spirit of the weekend. We have kept the cost of the weekend down to $165. If you are not a member of Woodgroup SA, there will be a small surcharge, payable when you arrive, to cover insurance, and this will also give

you temporary membership of Woodgroup SA.

This year, we hope, will be the best SAturn so far! Jeff and I remain sole convenors, and we prom-ise you lots of turning, lots of laughs, old friendships rekindled and new ones made. Plenty of saw-dust and shavings, challenges and cheer, plus a few surprises! Bring your safety gear and dust protection, and we also ask you not to power-sand, in order to reduce dust. Disposable dust masks will also be available for purchase.

As we said last year - we value your commitment to SAturn and we know that for many of you it re-quires some budgeting to come up with the tariff each year. Therefore we need to be clear about who is entitled to be there – namely, those of you who have paid! We welcome anyone who wants to have a look for an hour, with a view to coming the next year, as long as that is cleared with us. But anyone who makes an extended visit, or participates in turning, will need to pay a ‘daily visitor’ tariff of $90. We think this is only fair to the rest of you. If you are a Woodgroup member, could

you please make sure that other members understand this.

To reserve your spot, fill out the attached form and send it to SAturn, 196 Esplanade Aldinga Beach SA 5173, or email a reply to me at cate@comstech.com. A deposit of $90 will confirm your spot. Cheques should be made out to J and C Wrigley. You also have the option of paying by bank transfer and sending the form back by email. To do this, just fill in the form, then copy and paste to a new email. We are really looking forward to catching up with you at this year’s SAturn. Feel free to email, or ring Jeff or me on 08 8557 7417 or 0407184474 for further information. Happy turning Cate Wrigley

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SAturn 2011 Booking Form Name(s)________________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________

Email _________________________________________

Phone: Home________________ Work__________________ Mobile__________________ I would like to share a room with________________________________________________ Special dietary requirements___________________________________________________ Are you a member of WoodgroupSA? Yes No (If you are not a member, you will need to pay $6 on arrival.)

Are you a snorer (ask your sleeping partner) Yes No Are you bringing a lathe Yes No Book caravan site Yes I enclose deposit of $90 per person or full payment of $165 per person I will provide my own safety equipment and my own dust prevention equipment. I agree not to power-sand.

Signed……………………………………………………

A deposit confirms your booking. Balance is required by 31st July 2011. Cheques should be made out to J and C Wrigley and sent to SAturn, 196 Esplanade Aldinga Beach 5173. If you prefer, you can transfer funds by EFT to the following account: BankSA, BSB 105-108 Account no 024558040, Account name: JA and CA Wrigley.) Note: please email me if you deposit funds by EFT, to make sure I don’t miss it!

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“You Turn”

Once again South Australia had quite a large representation of turn-ers at “ You Turn. ” “ Y ou Turn ” , which is held at Hor-

sham in Victoria is the brain child of Brendan Stemp and is modelled on South Australia ’ s Saturn. This year was the third annual event and ran, officially, from the 30th April to the 2nd May with most people setting up on the Friday after-noon .Accommodation is mainly in cabins in a caravan park a few kilometres from the venue. The venue is under the grandstand at the Hor-

sham Show grounds, this area is able to house about 50 lathes and Carrols mobile emporium. The “ You Turn ” theme is the exchange of skills and here they certainly succeeded. This theme is promoted by the three professional wood turners in residence: Brendan, Robbo and Wolfie, the latter conducting a, well at-tended, non stop demonstration, or should I say floor show, all weekend. Among other dem-onstrations was an excellent demo by our fel-low South Aussie Charles Greig on gold leaf. Charles had, probably unknown to himself, pre-formed an act of great bravery by infiltrating the

traditional area of the Melbourne mob. This mob always send up an advance party to hold their

position, under the command of “ Jock ” a fire breathing ex Vietnam vet! The main South Australian enclave consisted of representatives from Murrayland Turners, the walking wounded of the weekend. Jack Hunt, who was still recovering from a broken ankle and

Some of the crowd (on the right ‘Happy’ Jack Hunt)

Charles Greig—not sleeping, thinking!

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spent much of his time reclining in his chair; likewise myself who had the wobblies, and con-trary to popular belief it was not caused by the booze! John Rowe was nominally there, well his lathe was! Next to them was the one North-

ern Turner ’ s rep-resentative Roger Humphris. Roger was very bouncy when we arrived obviously looking forward to a week-end where he would not be the butt of the tradi-tional practical jokes. Alas poor

Roger was adopted by one of our Victorian hosts who proceeded to try and improve his basic wood turning skills with missionary vig-our. Unfortunately Roger’ s growls and teeth grinding were mistaken for noises of apprecia-tion, for his instructor continued all weekend

unabated. I believe the same person offered Robbo some advice during his skew demo. Robbo being an accomplished show man started his demo with a roughing gauge send-ing a plume of chips over his audience. Roger ’ s friend suggested that Robbo place his thumb in the “ crease ” of his gauge to di-vert the chips. The retort was immediate and vulgar, however it brought hoots of laughter. The poor fellow retreated, probably, to give Roger further coaching!

Ray and Darryl Hoare from Western Woodies made the long trip from SA but were travelling light this year with only about a ton of gear. It

Roger Humphris looking serious

Ray and Darryl—sharing!

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was too much for their trailer though, as they had a “ blow out ” , and were very impressed that the Victorian Police came to assist. Actu-ally boys a South Oz registration equals mari-juana to that mob, you were lucky that you were not escorted into Horsham for further in-quiries! They tell me they have up-graded their van and will be bringing both workshops to Sat-urn. The only other South Australian there was Ray Cottee from Kingston, unlike the rest of us he stayed out of the lime light and diligently be-haved himself.

The catering for the event was done by “ The Turnips ” . They did an excellent job supplying us with morning and afternoon tea with a waited on lunch and evening meal.

At the two latter meals we had raffles in aid of a village in East Timor with a number of very worthwhile prizes. Last year they were able to raise over $1400 which went directly to aid the village. In all I would certainly recommend I would recommend this great educational and fun weekend.

And finally …

Charles Greig –still thinking

(no cup of coffee’s that

good, so don’t ask!)