June 2007 - Club Meeting

JUNE 2007 CLUB MEETING - The Hazards of Dust

This month's main demo featured Alan Bailey with a talk on the perils of dust for the woodturner. Alan thoroughly covered all the relevant aspects of dust hazard whether by inhalation, skin contact or explosion and gave advice on how to minimise the hazards. Health and Safety can often be a pretty dry, though necessary subject, but Alan's presentation was anything but.

Here are some links related to the hazards we face as woodturners which you may find useful:

HSE Information Sheet: Wood Dust Hazards and Precautions	http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis1.pdf
HSE Advice on Wood Dust	http://www.hse.gov.uk/woodworking/dust.htm
COSHH and the Woodworking Industries	http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis6.pdf
HSE Information Sheet on Toxic Woods	http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis30.pdf

Show 'N' Tell

June's Show 'N' Tell centred on the theme of "Fruit and Veg". It's interesting that no-one ever seems to turn vegetables (except maybe the odd onion) but fruit always seems popular. There were, as usual, some "Off Topic" items in the Show 'N' Tell and it was great to see these as well. Here they are . . .

I suppose you could say the left hand one is a "pine apple" while the middle one is a "pineapple".

The pineapple (that's the middle one) was turned and carved by Brian Oram.

Another apple, together with Brian Hunt's compote filled with apples all various different varieties.

Another couple of apples, this time from Pete Kelly. Also a spinning top. I'm not

sure but it looks like it might be a foretaste of next month's meeting when Brian

Oram will be demonstrating how to turn spinning tops.

Next up is a pear together with a seashell. I seem to remember the

seashell was one of the items demsonstrated on the Axminster day out.

It was obviously worth it!

Finally there seems to be a theme of Light and Power running through these

three. A table lamp on the left made from spalted timber, a lacewood candlestick

on the right - looks like some off-centre work there. And in the middle is one of

Ian Hooker's segmented masterpieces. You can't appreciate this from the picture

but this piece is absolutely immense - probably a couple of feet high if I remember

correctly. All in all it's a pretty powerful piece of work and contains hundreds of

individual pieces of wood.