Last weekend was the annual Yandles of Martock Woodworkers Show. Yandles are one of the UK’s premier specialist timber and wood machinery suppliers and their 2008 show brought together many of the best equipemnt manufacturers, tool companies and other wood related demonstration stands – not to mention the opportunity to shop for wood for lacemaking bobbins and tools.
Accompanied by flaminglacer, and our friends Nick and Andrea we set off for the two hour trip to Somerset early in the morning, dodging the rain showers. Yandles is in the very picturesque village of Martock and is reknowned for the wide range of exotic woods they supply to the Turning fraternity.
I was delighted to come away with a beautiful piece of Purple Heart Wood, and some great ideas of what to do with it. This wood is a bright purple in colour until it has been exposed to air for a while when it becomes a rich warm brown with purple overtones. It is beautiful when turned and polished and you will soon being seeing the results. Nick, a fellow turner, also managed to get a new tool rest for his lathe – and with a discount!
We lost the girls for a while but they managed some retail therapy in the Craft Shop before we all had an excellent lunch in the village pub. Much sketching in notebooks was done over lunch as Nick and I started to put some of our ideas onto paper. We had both bought wood in various shapes sizes and varieties and the ideas were coming thick and fast. I have in mind a new gizmo that would be good for Quilters and Embroiderers as well as Lacemakers – I just need to work out how to do it now.
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