| 2023 Spring Competition |
Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild's 2023 Spring Competition.
We were pleased to hold the 2023 Spring Competition during our final meeting before summer break at Exotic Woods in Burlington on Thursday June 15, 2023. The Spring Competition was another great success with 44 entries and over 65 people in attendance. The attached PowerPoint presentation highlights the winners of each category. Winners and pics are also listed below.
Special thanks to our expert panel of judges; Andrea Perego, Chris Arcand, Mike Sheppard and John Hordyk Sr who decided on the "Most Promising Novice" and the "Best In Show" awards.
The 2023 Most Promising Novice award presented to: Ed Erl for his submission. | The 2023 Best In Show award, as selected by a panel of judges (Andrea Perego, Chris Arcand, Mike Sheppard, John Hordyk Sr with Mel Hordyk), was presented to: Maurice Solar for his 'Round the World. |
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Novice - Small submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st James Mitchell
2nd Ladan Khodrang
3rd Wayne Heil
Novice - Large submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st Ed Erl
2nd Ed Erl
3rd Iain Douglas
Intermediate - Small submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st James Mitchell
2nd Pat Moran
2nd Neil Dunning
Intermediate - Large submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st James Mitchell
2nd Scott Tipping
3rd Gwyn Parry
Open - Small submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st Charles Jordan
2nd Chris Sisson
3rd Everett Vander Horst
Open - Large submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st Keith Robinson
2nd Keith Robinson
3rd Don Svob
3rd Malcolm Cumming
Segmented submissions (pictures will be added post-competition)
1st Maurice Solar
2nd Jim Wright
Welcome to the Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild 2023 Spring Competition.
We are pleased to be holding the 2023 Spring Competition during our final meeting before summer break at Exotic Woods in Burlington. This will be held at our usual 3rd Thursday meeting, on Thursday June 15, 2023.
Judging for Best in Show will be conducted by a panel of 3 judges this year. Please take a moment at the competition to thank them for their participation and support:
- We welcome back John Hordyk, founder of Exotic Woods who has judged many of our Spring Competitions in the past.
- Mike Sheppard is a former member of our guild and past-President of the Burlington Guild of Sculptors and Woodcarvers. Mike has experience judging both turning and carving competitions at shows in Toronto, Woodstock, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Belleville and at the Erie County Fair.
- Andrea Perego, the current President of the Burlington Guild of Sculptors and Woodcarvers has an excellent eye for style and form.
Click here for the 2023 Spring Competition Entry Form . Fill out this form and bring it with your entries on June 15th.
HINT: you may need to click the "Enable Editing" button once the Entry form opens in Word
Click here for the 2023 Spring Competition Rules and Guidelines
The following chart illustrates the 7 submission categories. Please remember to fit into a 4"x4"x8" box the submission must be fully assembled.
