Good company, steak sandwich, ginger beer, birthday cake and woodwork – how can you beat that!

Many thanks to Hugh for the photos, Mick, Mike, Ron & Richard – our very able cooks – and of course our lovely Carolan who arranged it all.

After dinner Alison brought out an amazing birthday cake for Mick – and we all sang happy birthday (mostly in tune!)

Our great judges – Shaun Hayward from Monaro Timber, Fred Buckley from the Woodcraft Guild and Alison Brice – then gave some great feedback on all the entries in this year’s competition.

And the winners were:

Toys

Bruce – 1st, 2nd & 3rd!

Peter – Prize Winner

Craig – Prize Winner

Boxes

John – 1st Prize

Mick – 2nd Prize

Peter – 3rd Prize

Furniture

Chris – 1st Prize

John – 2nd Prize

Mick – 3rd Prize

Merry Christmas everyone – looking forward to a great new year!

Then onto the really fun stuff – a great presentation by Phil from the Woodcraft Guild on projects undertaken by the Guild and Phil’s amazing jigs

Many thanks Phil – an excellent night!

John started our June meeting off with a presentation of one of the under bed storage units built by members for Communities@Work – thanks to the kind sponsorship of Moray & Agnew.

 
And here are the guys presenting them to Communities@Work (and demonstrating their durability!)

 
Mick then gave us the most amazing presentation of his restoration of a “Premo” bandsaw.

 
For those history buffs – check out this article about the “Premo” brand

 
Chris gave us a list of alternative circular saw blades with a wide enough kerf to suit the Triton riving knife, including:-

CMT 291

Carbitool

Bosch Optiline

 
And finished off with a very useful – and inexpensive! – method for precisely lifting a router on the router table.

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