Forest Hill Woodturners

12/10/2026

A lovely article about Cliff in the current edition of Whitehorse News

02/09/2026

The Cliff Walsh retrospective is now up and running. Open until 6 October at Nunawading library.

01/08/2026

Recognised as one of Australia’s best and most accomplished turners, we are proud to have Cliff as a member of FHWT & Community Shed.

31/07/2026

Forest Hill Wood Turners was recently contacted by Milgate Primary school requesting a donation for their fund raising trivia night, the club was happy to oblige. Red, black pens and a pencil in a presentation/desk set all made from the last of my red gum salvaged from the Black Saturday fires around St Andrews. One set donated to Milgate, the second I'll save for a future donation. I always make 2 sets for commissions, if I only make 1 it goes belly-up but if I make 2 I usually get 2 good sets finished.

30/06/2026

Yesterday we were delighted to host Cr Prue Cutts - Whitehorse Council, Simpson Ward who saw firsthand the outstanding efforts of our members.
We appreciate her endorsement and look forward to an ongoing partnership to enrich the Whitehorse community.

27/06/2026

working on his unidentified - but very old - burl platter about 550mm diameter he had to sand down an edge to get it on Walshie ( I've decided the Vicmarc needs a name!), what he's going to do with a platter that size, who knows? He did make a huge amount of noise and mess though, that's after he fitted the bed extension in an act of self preservation the tailstock weighs a ton to lift off.
And a couple of shots of our club in full swing, unfortunately one of our members went home as there wasn't enough room left!
Looking forward to our visit on Monday from , Councillor of Simpson Ward and possibly even - Councillor of Cootamundra Ward both from Whitehorse Council, hopefully to get a better idea of how FHWT use the space prior to being joined by Vermont Men's Shed in a couple of months, they're also a member of the .

24/06/2026

Cliff Walsh having the very first go on the Forest Hill Wood Turners brand spanking new VM 300 Short Vicmarc lathe, sporting his new Vicmarc cap. Our new lathe was purchased with a generous donation by Cliff himself, which I reckon gets him the free cap and the first turn. Just a simple bowl which he knocked out in around 2 hours, not really much of a challenge for Cliff, he's a bit of a segmenting guru. We did get the bed extension with it but it's not fitted here. Lathe from , Thanks Jim everyone who's had a go loves it!

21/03/2026

Thanks everyone who contributed to this worthy cause.

30 beautiful pen have arrived from Forrest Hill Woodturners and Community Shed. Thank you they are magnificent. Much appreciated

17/12/2025

Thank you to Dominic at for the kind donation of timber towards the comfort crosses we are busy making for . Your generosity is helping us to achieve our goal of producing 100 crosses.

15/11/2025

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