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Our latest newsletter (old newsletters at the bottom of the page) May 2012 PDF version

(21st April)

NEW STORAGE AREA NEEDED FOR OUR SHOW MATERIAL
Our show material, including staging and cloth etc is stored in a
barn in Clayton, which is not very accessible and is not vermin free.
Does any member have spare garage space or workshop space where we
can store the material in a dry and vermin free environment. The area
needed is approx 8ft x 5ft. SWS is prepared to pay an annual rent for
this facility of £50. Please contact Bob Jubb 01444 232955 or Tom
Lednor 01903 743025.

ORGANISER FOR OUR CLUB NIGHT SPEAKERS
As you know Pauline and Bob have had to give up organising our
monthly speakers due to poor health and in the interim, Wendy and
Graham Quantrill have taken on the role, but this is only short term.
Would anyone like to take on the role of organising the speakers?. If
so please contact our chairman Paul Reader 01444 451979 or any of the
committee members.

TOOL AND WOODWORKING BOOK AUCTION
As advance notice so that you can all sort out your workshops, we are
intending to have a tool auction evening, possibly on October's club
night. The books will be those from our library that are no longer
frequently used or those you wish to get rid of from home, plus any
tools you wish to sell. A small commission may go to the club coffers

TOOLS AND MACHINERY FOR SALE

Bob Jubb and Allan Fielding visited Paula Smith whose husband was a
SWS member, but sadly died two years ago a week after reaching
retirement age. Paula is now ready to start selling his bigger items
of tools and machinery and they are listed below. Anyone interested
please contact Allan Fielding on 01273 494365 (suggested prices now added by Allan 26th April) LIST OF TOOLS AND MACHINERY

(11 April 2012)

NEW TREASURER

At a previous committee meeting Mike Wallace tendered his resignation as Treasurer of the Sussex Woodcraft Society as from the next AGM.

NOMINATIONS are urgently required for the AGM. Graham May who kindly offered to stand for election has now found he is unable to do so, so In the meantime Mike is still eager to collect subscriptions for the current year from unpaid members.

DHG Credit Card Faciliy TERMS AND CONDITIONS

2012 meetings

11th January Reprise of members' work at winter exhibition

8th February Joanna Wilkins Bygones in your Attic

14th March James Pumfrey is giving another talk this time on timber framed buildings.

11th April (At the Royal British Legion Hall) Ian Barnett - a greenwood worker. Woodworking tools and green woodworking (Members to bring any old tools they want identified, or any not needed to be donated to Amberley Chalkpits Museum).

9th May Annual General meeting+ Mervyn Mewis to come and give a talk/powerpoint presentation and play some music to demonstrate the use of traditional and contemporary wood skills, emphases on local woodlands, sympathetic management, and home-grown timbermaking and playing musical instruments

13th June A basket weaver (subject to confirmation)

23/24th June Summer Show at Wakehurst Place

(Saturday/Sunday)

July/August No meetings

21/22/23 September Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Halland, East Sussex

(Friday/Saturday/Sunday)

1^stDecember SWS Annual Show, Henfield village hall. Subject for annual competition - "Something for the (Saturday) garden"

12th December TBA

9th February Janine Creaye, sculpture form/wood and stone carving

www.sculptureform.co.uk

9th March Sean Hellman, fan birds

www.seanhellman.com

13th April James Pumfrey, From Green Logs to Bowls Using the Pole Lathe

(and drinking beer the tudor way).

11th May AGM - Speaker Brian Waghorne talking about Printing, Offset and Litho

28th/29th/30th May Summer Sale of work at Wakehurst Place

(Saturday/Sunday/Monday) See some of the exhibitors

15th June Chris Grace, a member of the West Sussex Woodturners talking about his work.

(THIRD Wednesday) www.notjustround.com

July/August No meetings

14th September Joanna Wilkins, The Lost Village of Tide Mills

12th October Martin Sullivan - Wheelwright (he is also a sash window specialist

if members have any questions).

9th November Irma Westerdijk - Working with Paverpol - will be of great interest to members

who wish to have a waterproof insert in their work, as well as the making of other items.

3rd December SWS Annual Show, Henfield village hall. Subject for annual competition - a door knocker

14th December Joy Lewis & Derrick Hughes - folk music; traditional music of Britain and Ireland played

on unusual instruments.

2010

13th January Own Exhibition critique (CANCELLED)

10th February Ian Gledhill, Art and Illusion

10th March Fred Maillardet, Oldland Mill

21st April AGM and SWS 25th Anniversary celebration

24th April St. George's Day Exhibition, The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill

See some of the exhibits

12th May Ryan Kearley, boat builder

16th June Charlie Cain of Saddlescombe Farm

8th September David Watson, Chainsaw carving

17/18/19th September WoodFair Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum

Friday/Saturday/Sunday Halland, East Sussex

13th October Frank Fox-Wilson Woodcarving

10th November Tristan Bareham, Re-constructed buildings (as seen at Bentley)

THIS TALK replaced at short notice by Ted Burst on the subject of FAIRGROUNDS

27th November SWS Annual Show, The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill

(Saturday) (25th Anniversary of Sussex Woodcraft Society)

See the results

See the Peoples choice

See the exhibits judged first place

See the exhibits judged second place

8th December Sarah Oldridge, through the seasons at Kew and Wakehurst

(includes our social evening)

2009

14th January Own exhibition

11th February Sussex Coast: Chichester to Rye by Geoff Mead

11th March 1001 things to do with bamboo by Jeanette and John Simpson

8th April AGM - speakers Eric Johnson, Bob Jubb, Graham Quantrill and Mike Wallace

12/13th April Easter Show at Ashdown Forest Llama Centre. This replaced the traditional

Wakehurst Place venue.

13th May John Plater, wood turner, presentation and talk

17th June Derek Fulford, antique clocks/watches

(if members bring along a clock or watch he will do an antiques road-show simile)

9th September John Manley, Sussex Past, (Sussex Archaeological Society)

14th October Wayne Jones, Bush craft

11th November John Hoare, Pilgrim Harps

28th November Annual Exhibition, Competition Sale of Members' Work

See the results

See the exhibits judged in first place

See some of the exhibits

9th December Paul Reader, slide show

2008

9th January Own Exhibition

13th February Archaeology of Sussex by Geoff Mead

12th March A model spitfire by Fred Baker

9th April Airbourne Balloon Flights Hot air Ballooning - Steve Richards

19th April St. George's Day Exhibition The Martlets Burgess Hill, sale of work

Theme - George and dragon.

See the dragons

14th May Woodcarving by Richard Keal

18th June Magnus Volk and his Railway by Ian Gledhill

http://www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk/

21/22nd June Summer Show at Wakehurst Place

See some images over the years

10th September Demonstration in turning by Tom Pockley

12/13/14th September WoodFair 2008 Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum Halland,

East Sussex

8th October Southdowns Volunteer Ranger Service by Ian Hartle

12th October Shoreham Airport Tour. Arrive well before scheduled start time of 2.00pm

(non-SWS members welcome)

12th November Tool Auction

29th. November Annual Exhibition Competition, sale of members work

The Martlets Burgess Hill 10am to 4.30pm

Annual competition Plant Stand

See the Peoples Choice

10th December Barrel organs by Norman Dicker (Society Social)

2007

10th January Display and critique of members' entries to the annual show

14th February Love Spoons - members' display and discussion

14th March Landscape Relief Carving by Mr Bradford

11th April Annual General Meeting . Recycling wood by Mr Mehmed

9th May Editor of Woodturning Magazine - Colin Simpson

13th June History of Shoreham Airport by Mr Dunstall

12th September Wey and Arun Canal Trust

21/22/23 September WoodFair 2007

(Fri/Sat/Sun) Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Halland, East Sussex.

10th October Tatton Oak by Rosalie Sinclair-Smith

14th November Myths and Legends of trees (Jonathon Huet)

24th November Annual Exhibition Competition, sale of members work

The Martlets Burgess Hill

10th October Tatton Oak by Rosalie Sinclair-Smith

14th November Myths and Legends of trees (Jonathon Huet)

24th November Annual Exhibition Competition, sale of members work

The Martlets Burgess Hill

12th December Musical Instruments by Dave Homewood (Society Social)

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September 2009

September 2009 PDF version

January 2010 PDF version

May 2010 PDF version

September 2010 PDF version

January 2011 PDF version

May 2011 PDF version

September 2011 PDF version

January 2012 PDF version

Links to other web sites

GreenWise (Accoya wood could revolutionise use of MDF)

See a remarkable Woodman (be patient, it is a large PDF file)

Competition winning Woodcarver (The web site of Peter Paces)

Kiama Woodcraft Group Inc.

Solent Guild of Woodcarvers and Sculptors

Love Spoons (The web site of Adam King)

Carvability (The web site of Nathalie Bradley)

Fairground Wagons (The web site of Ted Burst)

The Chatterley Carvers groups Horam (Instructor Greta Chaterley)

Woodturning (The web site of Allan Fielding)

Art in Burgess Hill (The web site for Mike and Sarah Wallace, Bob and Pauline Turner)

Internationally renowned Wood sculptor (The web site of Ian Norbury)

The Royal Forestry Society

Timberline, Unit 7, Munday Industrial Estate, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge Kent TN9 1RP (The web site for this supplier is a mine of information. Some links are under development but there is much to see on line if unable to visit Tonbridge)

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