All posts by Dobbo

A club member since 2011 who enjoys wood turning.
Club Activity, Community Project, General Membership, Toy Making

The Toy Team

If you visit the clubhouse on a Wednesday you will see plenty of activity. It appears everyone has a task and it is tackled with a smile & enthusiasm.

At the beginning of the year a plan is established considering the most popular toys, the resourcing to make, paint & store the toys before handover in late November.

John Parrent’s past project management skills is tested in bringing this plan together. The success of the quantity & quality of toys delivered over the past couple of years indicates 2017 should be another good year.

WOSP on a Wednesday is not just a toy workshop, it is a social gathering. It is a friendly community which in many ways provides the heart of the club. The attendees represent 20-25% of the club. A large percentage of the toy workforce also supports the Bunnings BBQ’s, the main income of the club. Conversations at mealtime are friendly & energetic. Discussions focus on the best techniques for streamlining production, prototyping new toys and arguing about whose football team was best.

Club Process, General Membership

2017 Member Benefits

Club Membership is only $60 per year. In the first year there is a once off administration fee of$45 which includes the provision of your name badge. The cost for participation in the workshop is $4

So after outlining the cost you are likely to incur, the following benefits are available to you.

  • Access to workshop with 8 lathes, 2 Band Saws, a scroll saw, bench saw, crosscut saw, planer, jointer, single & dual drum sander, bench sander, spindle sander, mortise & tenon jig, framing guillotine, a paint spray booth room with spray equipment, numerous handheld power tools. In addition there are hand tools, drill bits & Forstner bits, routers & router benches as well as 5 work benches.
  • Workshop access to 6 sessions per week with an experienced session leader
  • Opportunity to be involved in making toys for charity distribution at Christmas
  • Receive 10 “The Woodpecker” newsletters each year & access to club website
  • Opportunity to participate in club fundraising at Bunnings BBQ’s with other members
  • Availability of small lending library
  • Access to experienced woodturning & wood working mentors
  • Membership open to both men & women
  • Members receive a club card and name badge.
Community Project, General Membership, Toy Making

Toy Handover

To most December 3 is just another Saturday but for the club it is a celebratory day as it culminates the completion of almost 700 toys by a group of club volunteers. During the year these volunteers donate each Wednesday to toy manufacture. John Parrent excels in the general organisation while Bert Bartlett ensures there is a jig to simplify the making of any toy.

The toys include rocking swans, prams, bikes, garages, helicopters, ambulances & police cars, fire engines, push carts, ironing boards & irons, wheelbarrows, tool boxes, carousels, trams, ride on trucks, doll cradles, quoits. In addition there will be a number of trick boxes plus naughts & crosses games.

The toy will be donated to representatives from Food for All, Salvation Army, Rye Lions & Westernport Charities who in turn will distribute them to children within the Mornington Peninsula. The function will also be attended by representatives from Bunnings, Bendigo Bank & Hillview Quarries, fantastic supporters of WOSP.

Everyone is welcome to attend the toy handover.

Club Activity, General Membership

Defibrillator Training

Defibrillator Training by David Gordon
Defibrillator Training by David Gordon

Training was conducted by David Gordon on 10th November at the club. David demonstrated the use of the defibrillator in conjunction with CPR. The members John Parrent, Joe Raulli, Eddie Hunter, Ron Higgins, Dennis Connor, Greg Millar, John Bayliss, Colin Dobson, Gaven Davis & Jeff Killeen attended and were involved in the discussion of various scenarios that could occur within the club. Thank you to Hillview Quarries who generously donated the defibrillator and the expense of the training.

Community Project, Fund Raising

Hillview Quarries Defibrillator Donation

Paul Nites donates WOSP a Defibulator
Paul Nitas donates WOSP a defibrillator

Paul Nitas CEO Hillview Quarries visited the WOSP workshop and presented a defibrillator to President John Bayliss. The joint board of Hillview Quarries and the RE Ross Trust provided the grant for the defibrillator.

President John Bayliss said “That a recent health scare involving a member had put the club on notice that a defibrillator as well as members updating their first aid qualifications was urgently needed”. John also said “That their 85 members would feel a lot more at ease knowing that this life saving device would now be on hand should it be needed”.

In response a gift of a hand turned pen & desk set along with a certificate of appreciation was presented Paul thanking him on behalf of the members.

The woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula conduct a range of woodworking skills to both men & women of all ages at their workshop in Boneo Road. A special group the “Toy makers” spend 12 months crafting and painting toys that number between 800 and 1,000 each year. These toys are then distributed to agencies, Salvos, Westernport Giving Program, Southern Peninsula Food for All, and Good Shepherd Australia.

Photo & story Barry Irving

Club Activity, Photo Framing, Uncategorized

Picture framing ~ Monday afternoon

Richard Stebbing
Richard Stebbing

The art of making a picture frame is now accessible to all members on a Monday afternoon. To prevent boredom in retirement Rodger Stebbing attended a 2 year Art & Design course. Now Rodger will be available to show you the skills he has subsequently learned.

Rodger has been able to apply some of what he learnt to his other passion “painting”. All paintings need frames and they can be very expensive if professionally done. To allow other painters present their paintings at the last Sorrento Arts Show Rodger made 140 frames.

Rodger prefers to use pine for his frames as that timber is cheaper. He uses his own painting skills to colour the frames where a lot of people would try to enhance the painting with moulded timber. It is possible to use a router to create the mouldings although the other choice is to pay the price & buy moulded timber.

A guillotine for cutting the 450 corners has been donated to the club. Attendees will be shown how to use the guillotine to cut the frame and then to use v nails or biscuits to join the corners. To finish the complete frame Rodger has a special router bit to ensure the backing board is flush with the frame. As an alternative to using the guillotine Rodger is able to demonstrate the use of a mitre cutter on the bench saw. Either way you must be able to set stops to ensure the timber on either side of the frame is the same length.

Rodger does not use glass but if glass is required it can be acquired & cut at Rosebud Glass on the Nepean Highway.

Over the years many of us have collected lots of memorabilia but have not presented or displayed it. At the Monday afternoon class you will be able to learn how to do a frame with a deeper rebate so that your memorabilia can be displayed within.

General Membership

John Bayliss ~ Life Member

Life Member ~ John Bayliss

At the 2016 AGM , much to the surprise of John Bayliss, he was made a Life Member of the club. Each club member should not be surprised. In fact there main comment has been “about time”.

Joh Bayliss
John Bayliss

John has been president of the club since 2009. In those 7 years he has forged the club into the successful organisation it is today. John has managed his committee into being a committed, productive & efficient team. John has a vision of how the club should be and step by step he guided the team in that direction. Initially, the concern was to ensure the growth of the finances. Each year there has been a regular income to enable the purchase of new machinery and equipment, the extension of club storage areas and the funding to support the manufacture of toys. Next year it is probable the number of BBQ’s Bunnings will allow us will be reduced. Already he is thinking of other ways to bring in the money. It could be by selling cakes at Bunnings or perhaps even the club produce.

John is also a great humanitarian. He has an amazing number of contacts and friends in the community. Consequently he is approached to talk at various clubs and asked to have the club support any number of community projects. He is always alert and concerned to the welfare of members and where he sees people should slow down he continually monitors and encourages them to do so.

Besides the club his other passion is dancing. He tells anyone who in interested “on the peninsula there are places where you can dance every day of the week”.

Club Process, General Membership

2016/17 Committee

Over a number of years the club has been very fortunate to have a very stable, productive & efficient committee. Subsequently it was not surprising that at the 2016 AGM no election was required. Many thanks to the retiring Brian Jones whose services and involvement have been very much appreciated. Brian will continue his role as a session leader on Tuesdays plus the most important activity of purchasing the biscuits each week. Thanks Brian.

With the idea of increasing the ideas & energy into the committee it was agreed that the committee would increase in size by 2 after Brian’s resignation. The new committee members are Gaven Davis, Jeff Killeen & Joe Raulli.

Consequently your new committee is made up of:

President: John Bayliss                           Vice President: Dennis Conner

Secretary: Greg Millar                            Treasurer: Peter Rodgers-Wilson

Committee

Gaven Davis, Colin Dobson, Ernie Garro, Ron Higgins, Eddie Hunter, Jeff Killeen, Joe Raulli, Gordon Waddingham

Club Activity, Community Project, Wood Turning

Free Woodturning Demonstration ~ Chris Pouncy

Well known wChris-Pouncyood turner Chris Pouncy, as UK and Southern Hemisphere Sales Manager for Robert Sorby Tools, travels the world demonstrating the best techniques and tools to use on the lathe.

Rather than focusing on set items, Chris tends to show people how to select the right tools for the job and how to get them to work the way they’re supposed to.

The latter applies in particular to special purpose tools, for example, spiralling and texturing tools. Lacing his presentation with humour Chris shows how to hold the tools, how to present them to the lathe, how fast or slow to run the lathe, and covers important safety aspects as well.

Based on his experience, we asked Chris to sum up the most common mistakes woodturners make. He rattled off the following:

When asked the most common mistakes woodturners make Chris rattled off the following:

  1. Running the lathe too slow
  2. Sanding the wood too fast
  3. Sanding the wood without doing checks to effectively move through the grits
  4. Not using sharp tools — the sharper they are, the safer they are
  5. Having toolrests at the right height for best tool presentation
  6. Using the right tool for the job
  7. Choosing the right wood for your project

He can be seen at Woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula, 109 Boneo Road, Rosebud South on 15th July at 12 noon.

Limited Spaces available so RSVP to reserve your place via Greg Millar 0410 280 695 gmillar10@iprimus.com.au

Sausage Sizzle and refreshments available

Club Activity

WOSP 20th Birthday Celebration

70+ people attended the club’s 20th birthday celebration at the Rye RSL recently. Hosted by the club president, John Bayliss, the luncheon was busy with conversation & laughter as the attendees mixed and stories were told.

Notable attendees Mike Hiley, the club’s first president, Barry Irving representing the Bendigo Bank & the Bunnings Activities Officer, Alyce Fogarty.

20 Year Cutting of the cake
20 Year Cutting of the cake

The 20 year celebration cake was cut by the life members Ron Higgins, Gordon Waddingham, Bert Bartlett, Bill Gorrisen & Jack Kane.