Come and See Andrew Hall at The Carpentry Store on Wednesday 18th January at 7pm.
Andrew will be making a Banjo Bowl and will hopefully have time to play it at the end of the evening. He will also talk about his hat making and will answer questions.
Cover Charge of €10.00
Includes Tea & Coffee.
Andrew Hall:
International Demonstrator, Woodworker, Woodturner and Wood Hat Milliner. Born in 1961, he has had a passion for working with wood all of his life.
His woodworking career started when he served a five year apprenticeship with Blue Circle Industries at Weardale in the Pennines.
His first influence in woodturning was at the age of 14 when the woodwork teacher gave freely of his time three evenings a week to educate some very keen students in woodworking, furniture making and woodturning. To this day they have remained in touch and have all carved out careers in wood associated business.
At the age of 22 he had the opportunity to teach apprentices at three colleges in the North East of England.
After teaching apprentices carpentry and joinery for 20 years he decided to rekindle his love of woodturning and has been turning professionally for the last 8 years, specialising in making wood hats and Corinthian helmets.
He also turns conventional bowls, natural edged vessels and staircase spindles.
He teaches small groups of a maximum of three in his workshop both woodturning and woodworking and when time allows he loves to turn one-off pieces of artistic woodturning.
Andrew supplies a small amount of galleries with his work and manufactures bespoke woodturning pieces made to the customer’s requirements.
He also teaches and demonstrates woodturning to clubs, schools, women’s institute groups, arts centres and countryside agency groups.
This has given him the opportunity to teach and demonstrate all throughout the UK, Germany, Belgium and Ireland.
He was the founder and former chairman of Wear Valley Woodturners and he also writes articles for woodworking and woodturning related magazines.
