Putty
12th March 2017, 06:25 PM
G'day guys and girls,
I'm a new forum member, 31 years old, male from Canberra. As my profile suggests I'm a 13 year veteran in the IT industry and the closest I've been to woodworking was making a clock in year 7 at high school. I enjoyed it well enough, but never trained in it or pursued it from there. A couple of years ago my girlfriend and I bought a house in Canberra and part of the outdoor makeover was removing a 35 square block of pavers and replacing them with a Jarrah deck which I did myself over a few weeks. Needless to say I really enjoyed it, and when I had a few metres leftover instead of chucking them in the fire I started tinkering with chopping boards, then tinkering some more, and now here we are.
Our cars have been kicked out of the garage, and the space converted to a small workshop where I've put together a Triton 2000 workcentre, Triton router table, bandsaw, router sled for planing, a few home made workbenches and a clamping table. A lot of what I have has either been picked up second hand, handed down from friends/family or built myself, which I take a lot of satisfaction in, but also gives me a lot of time to improve often glaringly obvious deficiencies in my original design. I'm definitely not too proud to admit I am still learning what many woodworkers would even call basic tips and tricks, like I say in my profile a year ago I knew nothing at all, now I know a tiny bit.
I'm here because I want to be able to learn from others, and from time to time offer suggestions on things that have worked for me that others might be struggling with. I want to be part of a community.
I run a small business selling mainly chopping boards but also various timber knick-knacks to help keep my workshop running, and can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/primecutsboards if anyone is interested in seeing any of my work :)
Cheers,
Anthony
I'm a new forum member, 31 years old, male from Canberra. As my profile suggests I'm a 13 year veteran in the IT industry and the closest I've been to woodworking was making a clock in year 7 at high school. I enjoyed it well enough, but never trained in it or pursued it from there. A couple of years ago my girlfriend and I bought a house in Canberra and part of the outdoor makeover was removing a 35 square block of pavers and replacing them with a Jarrah deck which I did myself over a few weeks. Needless to say I really enjoyed it, and when I had a few metres leftover instead of chucking them in the fire I started tinkering with chopping boards, then tinkering some more, and now here we are.
Our cars have been kicked out of the garage, and the space converted to a small workshop where I've put together a Triton 2000 workcentre, Triton router table, bandsaw, router sled for planing, a few home made workbenches and a clamping table. A lot of what I have has either been picked up second hand, handed down from friends/family or built myself, which I take a lot of satisfaction in, but also gives me a lot of time to improve often glaringly obvious deficiencies in my original design. I'm definitely not too proud to admit I am still learning what many woodworkers would even call basic tips and tricks, like I say in my profile a year ago I knew nothing at all, now I know a tiny bit.
I'm here because I want to be able to learn from others, and from time to time offer suggestions on things that have worked for me that others might be struggling with. I want to be part of a community.
I run a small business selling mainly chopping boards but also various timber knick-knacks to help keep my workshop running, and can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/primecutsboards if anyone is interested in seeing any of my work :)
Cheers,
Anthony