Competition time
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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- Anything that will fit through a 150mm diameter hole.
- Anything that will fit through a 150mm diameter hole.
2021 Summer Club Challenge
- Box with Finial
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
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
1st August 2016 – Club Challenge:
- Something made from Yew
1st February 2016 – Club Challenge:
- Something with fruit or fungi
7th December 2015 – Christmas Social:
- Christmas Challenge – design and build a diablo
3rd August 2015 – Autumn special:
- Make something with a finial
- Make something with 2 or more wood/materials
2nd February 2015 – Spring special:
- Make something to with a stand
1st December 2014 – Christmas special:
- Yo-Yo competition
1st September 2014 – Autumn special:
- Make something to include 1 or more sphere
3rd February 2014 – Springtime special:
- Open competition – Make what you like
2nd December 2013 Meeting:
- Create a 3 wheeled toy – winner for best design and furthest distance travelled when released from a ramp
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.
December 2012 meeting:
October 2012 meeting:
March 2012 meeting:
December 2011 meeting:
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
Any issues, please use our email to contact us and we will be more than happy to help.