Dick Veitch – Butterfly Box

Club Meeting: 5 May 2021
Report by: Janet McDonald

Dick gave a talk about how our club over the years has supported the Child Cancer Foundation by making wooden boxes to place glass butterflies in. The glass butterflies are given to those parents that have lost a child to cancer.  It was lovely to hear not so many boxes are needed these days with improvements to cancer treatment.

He then showed us the specification of making a box on the lathe with step by step clear instructions.

You can find the instructions for making the boxes here: 

https://sawg.org.nz/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Butterfly-Box-1.pdf

https://sawg.org.nz/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Butterfly-Box-2.pdf