I give Carla her first hands-on woodturning lesson ...

The day before she left Cape Town we managed to squeeze in a first hands-on woodturning lesson for Carla. We turned a couple of spin tops for Carla's young niece back in Lisbon.

Carla was an excellent student and learned quickly, completing the third spin-top almost entirely on her own.




We will continue with Carla's woodturning lessons when she returns to Cape Town next year.

I'm looking very forward to that Carla. I hope that all your plans to return to Cape Town for an extended period next year come to fruition.

I hope that you really enjoy your Kruger Park visit before you fly home.

AWSA 2010 Port Elizabeth - Day 1 ...

Day 1 of the 2010 AWSA Symposium begins at the Cape Recife School in Port Elizabeth














Jez Rowe, the AWSA Chairperson opens the event.




















Andi Wolfe photographing the proceedings - photographing me actually!






















Alan Ferguson - Durban















Left to right:
Let me know who these guys are and I'll name them













Left to right:
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Alan Ferguson - Durban
??? and
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The AWSA 2010 committee

Port Elizabeth

Jez Rowe, Nigel Waters and Rolly Pattel











Trent Bosch, the featured demonstrator from near Ft Collins, Colorado, USA


Wonderful guy and excellent demonstrator















Hollowing

Trent produces his own range if tools












The hollow form for Trent's

'Vessel of Illusion'













After morning tea I attended Rolly Pattel's demo on segmented turning

Planning is critical














Gluing the two half rings together with toothpics as spacers














A sneaky way of thicknessing the rings

Here is a link to a very clever mini lathe mounted drum sander by Awilda (Tita) Wilson and ...

here are some additional plans and pics for the same project by Greg Darling













Rolly Pattel finishing off his demo piece



















I loved the soccer ball inspired piece by ??? for Schalk's Challange with the FIFA World Cup Poster behind



















A wonderful piece by Wally Rossini

















African Sun

Juri van den Heever of Stellenbosch
















Night sky

Another shining example of work by Jurie van den Heever













An open segmented vase

Jimmy Stephenson





















Untitled

Nigel Waters














Sinking Soon

by Nigel Waters

















Inter-Planetry Pregnancy - birth of a rock star


Nigel Waters

















Searching for Surf

Nigel Waters


















???

Nigel Waters
















Nico Swart
















Nico Swart






















Nico Swart














Nico Swart x 2












Collin Merry making someones day turning a dinner platter for her dolls house


















Collin has a beautiful jewelers lathe for his miniature work


















Buffing a miniature vase













Back in another Trent Bosch Demo

Many examples of his work were handed around to illustrate different aspects













Andrew Stephens absorbed by Trent's demo


















Nigel Water's demo on colouring and texturing

Burn baby burn!













Carving stands by a local supplier


















One of the exhibitor areas














Trent's slide presentation

I really enjoyed his wide range talents including metal casting











And of course a braai at the end of the day
















Discussing the dark arts!


















Practicing the dark arts















The dark arts spell potions almost brewed



















More dark discussions














Sharon Ferreira capturing the action for posterity












Ashwin Ramhith, Peter Nicolle and Gert Ferreira
















Gert Ferreira - Cape Town


















Peter Nicolle - Franschoek


















Gigi Laidler photographer and AWSA's Turnaround Editor extraordinaire - Cape Town

















Wendel de Buy - Cape Town




















Barbra Mills and Marie Lawson making merry














John Derek - Cape Town

















John Derek re-hydrating after a hectic day























Ted Horn? gave us a couple of rousing songs

Wish I had a voice like that!














Ashwin Ramhith - Alice



















Schalk van Niekerk - Johannesburg

and

Gigi Laidler - Cape Town










Peter and Ineke Nicole - Franchoek














Another great Trent Bosch demo














Burr Olive Bowl

Rodney Band













??? Bowl


Rodley Band?












Sneezewood and ??? vessels

Nico Swart - Port Elizabeth














Wall plaque


Nigel Waters - Port Elizabeth











Fluted vessel

???

















Selection of miniature turnings

Dave Stephenson - Sedgefield













'Fire and Motion'

John Wessels - Sedgefield













??? and 'Fire and Motion'

John Wessels - Sedgefield