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Gerard Wong of Vermont Sales (gerardwong@vermontsales.co.za) then demonstrated an air-brush, a sharpening wheel and a router lathe.

The Alcolin range - on the right!	Another view
Using an airbrush!	Sharpening wheel
Router lathe	Spiral turning

Grahamstown Woodworkers displayed and sold some of their work at the Hobbies Fair on 27 March in the Masonic Hall. See photos below.

Andy Hatting demonstrating the Jet lathe	Some of Godfrey Howes's scroll saw work
Old woodworking tools	Andy Hatting's clocks
Mike Brown's display	Rob Moss's display
Andy Hatting's toys	Patty Zipp's furniture restoration
Computer display with Koekoe Jonker's miniature furniture	Billy de Klerk's bowls

At the April meeting Nigel Waters demonstrated some unusual woodturning techniques and displayed some of his artistic work (see photos below).

Nigel in action	Some of the variety of tools that he uses

At the May meeting Patty Zipp spoke on "Furniture Restoration" and demonstrated some of her techniques. Arnold Rudolph from Port Alfred also contributed.

Patty doing French polishing
Where to start and what to do?	Restored inlay work
Arnold's broken chair	Watch this space for the repaired chair!

On Saturday June 5 there was the annual get together with our Lower Albany colleagues at the Bathurst Agricultural Museum. There was a good turnout from the GWG.

Water mill with volunteers!

The June meeting was at the workshop of Rowanwood in Dundas Street. Rowan Engelbrecht spoke about his work and demonstrated some interesting machines, including a large lathe.

There was no meeting in July but some members ran a stall on the Village Green at the National Arts Festival.

At the August meeting three of the members described their Festival experiences and gave some good advice on selling your wooden products. Rob Moss also demonstrated how to make cabriole legs for tables.

Andrew Stevens, Nigel Waters and Rob Moss	Some of their top sellers
Rob Moss	Rob explaining the cutting of cabriole legs
The table legs before ...	... and after finishing

The very sad news is that Eric Tasmer passed away on Saturday 28 August after heart surgery.

The September meeting was a demonstration of how to get the best out of your table saw by Andre Esterhuyze and Brian Jolly from Strand Hardware in Port Elizabeth.

A record attendance, including colleagues from LAWG, also enjoyed Andre's demo on turning pens and being shown the pen turning kits available from Strand Hardware.

Andre explaining saw blades	table saw sleds
Safe use	Pen turning kit
Acrylic blanks	Turning
Down to size	Final product

At an additional meeting in September (22nd) Piet Smith from Pretoria and his expert assistant, Charlie, demonstrated the turning of peppermills.

Amazing selection of peppermills	Piet Smith
Charlie starts turning	Rapid progress
The ceramic mechanism	Mechanism being installed

The October meeting was a demonstration of woodworking jigs by Chris Terry and Andrew Stevens.

In general the talk was about the reasons for making jigs, the materials used and the hardware available (handles, knobs, T nuts etc).