Highland Woodturners Meeting Features Live-edge Bowls, Rings and a Platter

Highland Woodturners Club held an evening show-and-tell reported on 19 February 2026 that lists live-edge bowls, turned bowls, rings, a platter and other lathe-work among the pieces on display. The club’s short recap says it names members who exhibited, but the published note itself is brief.

The club is registered as Highland Woodturners Club (Scottish Charity SC053651) and uses the tagline “Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands.” That legal and mission detail frames the activity reported on 19 February 2026 and matches the club’s continued pattern of member-led show-and-tell evenings.

The 19 February 2026 recap focuses on the work shown rather than logistics. The brief report lists the categories of work that formed the evening’s show-and-tell, but it does not include attendance figures, raffle or tea details, venue information, or photographer credits in the text provided to this reporter.

For context, the club’s archived Showtime meeting on 23 June 2022 gives a fuller picture of how Highland Woodturners stages these events. “Our meeting on the 23rd June 2022 was another Showtime meeting, organised by David Hobson and compered by myself, we had entries from 12 members and a total of over 30 individual items shown,” the club wrote after that meeting, naming David Hobson as organiser and describing the scale of participation.

That 2022 post goes on to note member development and trainee involvement. “The standard of the entries was as usual very good, there were several entries from members who had very recently joined our club, some of the trainee turners also exhibited, a positive step for them as they were so very new to woodturning,” the club recorded, signalling growth in exhibitor numbers and a willingness to show work in public.

Photographic coverage and social conviviality were highlighted in the 23 June 2022 report as well. “We had a couple of our members take some photographs of the proceedings, the majority taken by Nick Simpson with Douglas Stewart taking the pictures whilst Nick was exhibiting. Here are those pictures,” the club noted, and it thanked attendees for support: “The attendance was very good and the raffle and teas were well supported, for this we thank you all.”

The 19 February 2026 report is much shorter than the 2022 Showtime post, but the recurring elements are clear: member exhibitions of turned work, an emphasis on live-edge and traditional bowl turning, and a pattern of internal photography and informal hospitality at meetings. Highland Woodturners Club continues to stage these show-and-tell evenings under its charitable remit, and the club’s public notes document both the pieces shown and the steady involvement of members across meetings.