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Len Osborne Trophy

Final scores spreadsheet for 2023 – 2024

Final scores spreadsheet for 2022 – 2023

Final scores spreadsheet for 2021 – 2022

Competitions

Our club holds a quarterly(ish) competition that is open to all members from the novice to the professional (and novices are sometimes the winners!). It is a chance to have a some fun and show off your talents of turning & other skills like carving, colouring, texturing, pyrography, etc – letting your imagination run wild. There are small prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.  

The competitions are announced through the monthly newsletter and through the email invitations to our club meetings.

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Hall of Fame
Past competition categories and winners are below to give you an idea of what is expected.
 
Summer 2022 – Part 2 (September)
  • Anything that will fit through a 150mm diameter hole.
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Winner – Mike Haselden
 
Summer 2022 – Part 1 (August)
  • Anything that will fit through a 150mm diameter hole.

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Winner – Derek Holdaway
 
December 2021 Club Challenge
 
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Winner – Richard Nichols
 

2021 Summer Club Challenge

  • Box with Finial

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Winner – Mario Demontis

December 2020 Club challenge:

  • Something Seasonal

1st – Dave Gibbard

2nd – Harry Woolhead

3rd – Steve Howells

August  2020 Club Challenge:

  • Off centre/multi centre turning
  • Involuted turning (also known as inside out turning).

1st – Harry Woolhead

2nd – Steve Howells

3rd – Richard Nicholls

Easter 2020 – Club Challenge:

  • Create an Egg – virtual vote

1st – Mike Haselden – Lindor stacking hollow egg

2nd – Bob Hope – Segmented egg and carving

3rd – Richard Nicholls – Cracked easter egg in cup

December 2019 – Club Challenge:

  • Wind powered

5th August 2019 – Club Challenge:

  • Finial

1st April 2019 – AGM Challenge:

  • Make a toy

1st place 2nd place 3rd place

3rd December 2018 – Christmas Challenge:

  • Make a Whistle

Best looking     Best sounding

6th August 2018 – Club Challenge:

  • Something with 2 types of materials

     

4th April 2018 – Club Challenge:

  • Something with at least 2 types of wood

7th Aug 2017 – Club Challenge:

  • Pair of items

   

3rd April 2017 – Club Challenge:

  • Bowl with decoration

   

5th December 2016 – Club Challenge:

  • Something powered by Elastic

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1st August 2016 – Club Challenge:

  • Something made from Yew

1st choice Harry Woollhead 2nd choice Chris Molyneux 3rd choice, Dave Simpson

1st February 2016 – Club Challenge:

  • Something with fruit or fungi

1st John Holden  2nd Bob McFarland  3rd Adrian Smith

7th December 2015 – Christmas Social:

  • Christmas Challenge – design and build a diablo
Bob McFarland top performer  Adrian Smith, best looking

3rd August 2015 – Autumn special:

  • Make something with a finial
  • Make something with 2 or more wood/materials

Ian Woodford, 1st place finial box on stand  Alan Baker 2nd place segmented bowl  Dave Simpson, 3rd place, Pea pod

2nd February 2015 – Spring special:

  • Make something to with a stand

18 Ian Woodford -1st  15 Bob Macfarland - 2nd  2 Harry Woolhead -3rd

1st December 2014 – Christmas special:

  • Yo-Yo competition

Phil Hill, best performing yoyo  Denis Hilditch, best looking yoyo

1st September 2014 – Autumn special:

  • Make something to include 1 or more sphere

Mike Haselden, bowl of balls, 1st choice  Denis Hilditch, ball game, 2nd choice  Phil Hill, toy, 2nd choice

3rd February 2014 – Springtime special:

  • Open competition – Make what you like

John R Davis 35, 1st  Dave Gibbard 25 (2nd)  Harry Woollhead 34, 3rd

2nd December 2013 Meeting:

  • Create a 3 wheeled toy – winner for best design and furthest distance travelled when released from a ramp

Dave Gibbard, Santa Pod, Rolling winner   Adrian Smith, no name, concours winner

Furthest distance winner                           Best design                  

3rd April 2013 Meeting:

  • A toy 
  • An item featuring colouring 
  • An item featuring piercing 
  • A project for Minstead Training Project – This will not be a complicated piece of turning, it  should be suitable for beginners. Your challenge is to include with it a  dimensioned diagram and step by step instructions as to how to make it.

John presents Harry with 1st prize   Jean (3rd) Pierre (2nd and Harry (1st)

Harry Woollhead C (1st choice)  Pierre Baumann A4 (2nd choice)  Jean Turner C (3rd choice)

December 2012 meeting:

2 options:
1. Longest spinning top
2. nicest looking spinning top
Adrian Smith with spinner winner     Lyne Early, prize for top with best appearance

October 2012 meeting:

3 options:
1. A wet turned item, retaining some bark
2. An item incorporating a twist
3. An item made incorporating off centre turning
 
     

March 2012 meeting:

3 options:
A make something from a 2”x2”x12” blank,
B make something incorporating carving or texturing,
C interpret the phrase “The Magic roundabout”

   

December 2011 meeting:

Make a  Christmas Decoration.

October 2011 – The HWA Challenge was to make something representing one of the below:

A- “Block of wood 8x3x3”

B- “Run of the mill”

C- “Autumn leaves”

   

June 2011 – The HWA Challenge was to make something representing a song title. The choices were:

A- “Ring of Fire”

B- “Little Green Apples”

C- “Lemon Tree”

D- “Ring a Ring o’ Roses”

                    

Feb 2011 – The HWA Challenge was to make something representing one of the random topics below:

A – Threadbare

B – The Valentine’s Day Massacre

C – On a Wing and a Prayer

D – Can’t see the Wood for the Trees

                   

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