Grahamstown Woodworkers

April 2015


The meeting was held in the St Andrews Design & Technology Centre.

The topic for the meeting was:

“New Zealand through the eyes of a woodworker” by Billy de Klerk

It is impossible to give more than a flavour, in the photographs below, of this superb presentation.


New Zealand - South Island

Billy de Klerk on the Tasman Glacier

A composite tile of New Zealand woods

Laminated work

Pink Pine pots

Lidded bowl in Kauri wood

Complex jewelery box in Remu wood

Maori pattern pot stand in Remu wood

Workshop carving totem poles

A totem pole

A Totara tree

Coulter Pine cones

Jewelery boxes in Monteray Cyprus (Macrocarpa)

Rustic stool

Vases in Yew wood

Export timber in Port Chalmers, Dunedin