The first  meeting of the year was held tonight.
present were Paul, J Hiltz, Miles, Brian and Robert.

We decided to start the forge course.
Leo suggested a chissel and demonstrated one that would be good to make.

He then went over his new invention for rounding out the inside of a bowl.
This tool takes all the hard work and most of the sanding chore out of the project.
We did not have any suitable bowls prepared to work with but by next session people should make a bowl with the outside finished and make a dovetail base on it.
This will be mounted in the lathe to use the new tool.

Leo then demonstrated the method  used to drill out and shape vases from rough stock.