Upcoming Events

October meeting on 15th at 7:30 pm

We will be welcoming a guest demonstrator from South Downs Woodturners. David will be showing us how to have more balls!

2026- 27 Programme

October- Dave Smith, Chairman of SDW
November - Club night, Christmas making for the Forest Market
December - Quiz night and social
January - GarryPoole
February - Club Night
March - Jubal Prevette
April - Club night plus Fletch from the Woodturning Shed
May - Stewart Furini and his paints
June - Club competition and Kevin
July - Saturday 24th All day demo and bbq TBA
August - Tba
September - AGM

Recent Events

Thanks to all who attended the AGM, it was great to see so many faces at what can be a chore but turned out to be a good social evening.
We welcome two new additions to the Committee, David Loveday and Kevin Treharne.

Again, members of the club supported the latest SEN SHED event in Southwater, with Kevin Hutson, Paul Edwards and Rob Bright Tutoring and Di Bright and Jean Whales supporting the event. Professional Turners Colwin Way and Stewart Furini were also Tutoring at this successful event, introducing young people with SEN to Woodturning.

In August members met on Ashdown Forest with professional photographer, Emma. We all learned a lot about lighting and backgrounds, with many photographs taken. Images can now be seen in the Gallery Page on this website.

On July 18th we welcomed Martin Saban-Smith to our club for an all day demonstration. A really successful day enhanced by a BBQ lunch.

Some great ideas on techniques and styling from Martin.

Our May event was a club night where we had the lathes out and had a visit from a local wood supplier. A great night!

Our April Meeting was held on 16th April when we enjoyed an inspirational and entertaining demonstration from our club’s friend Stewart Furini.
Stewart spoke about Laser Cutting equipment and he demonstrated fluting and texturing between centres.

He went on to demonstrated various cutting attachments including Cup Cutters and fine ball rasps, finished with Pyrographic techniques. All of which would not be complete without colouring!

No smooth bottoms or brown wood to be seen here!

A great evening with a full house watching.

Looking forward to next April already!

Our March meeting was held on 19th March when we welcomed Jubal Prevatte who gave a spirited demonstration using green Apple wood to produce an amazing thin bowl. As well as demonstrating woodturning skills Jubal shared some of his thoughts on turning and dealing with feedback! His use of tools was exceptional and his concept of using errors as learning opportunities and a chance to practice skills was especially re-assuring.
With an interesting insight into Jubal’s life growing up in Oregon US we had a thoroughly entertaing evening with a good turn out of Club members and guests.