Grahamstown Woodworkers

March 2015


The meeting was held in the St Andrews Design & Technology Centre. The topics for the meeting were:

“All about spokeshaves: sharpening, setting and using them” by Andrew Stevens

“Making small wooden boxes (not turned)” by Wouter Holleman


Wouter Holleman, current Co-Chairperson and the audience

Andrew Stevens

Varieties of spokeshaves

More

Curved blade

Two more

More spokeshaves and some scrapers

Jig for holding a spokeshave blade for sharpening

Sharpening on the diamond stone

Using the sharpened spokeshave

After some discussion, the second topic "Wooden Boxes" was presented by Wouter Holleman


Wouter Holleman prepares to unpack his "bag of boxes"

Unpacking

Cigarette box

Lacquered box

Two octagonal boxes

The "crocodile" box

Inlaid marble

Carved pattern box

Decorated lid

General view of part of the collection

The "Dragon" pencil box