deldridg
8th May 2009, 10:22 AM
Hi folks,
well, after not touching a tool for many years, my wife and I have bought a lovely 70s timber house in northern Sydney and so I have the space and the environment conducive to getting back into it. Of course I'm referring to woodworking...
So far I've knocked up a cooktop/oven cabinet, mounted a horizontal base under the cathedral ceiling in the kitchen on which an expensive rangehood is now dangling precariously and am planning a host of other dodgy projects to massacre - including outdoor settings, decking, an outdoor entertainment area around the pool and a 300m tall spaceship. OK, so the spaceship was a silly gag - but who knows if we have kids one day??!!
Anyway, I have an engineering background but limited experience with carpentry though few things in life (while clothed) IMHO can offer the same joys as designing something and building it into life! Having recently discovered and fallen in love with Google Sketchup, I'm destined to be forever designing items far too complicated for me to build, but what's life without a challenge? I'm sure that's where you guys will be wonderfully helpful and hopefully in time I'll be able to return some of my experience and bits of advice.
Until we build a proper garage to replace the carport, my workspace is confined to our top balcony where I make do with limited space, hand tools and a continuum of fantastically useful comments from my lovely wife (like "wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to buy it?", "what - Bunnings again?? That's the 4th time today...", "why do things take 4 times longer than you estimate?", "I'd really like to be able to use the kitchen one day..." etc.).
So that's more than enough about me - thanks for reading this far and I look forward to sharing woodworking experiences here in the future! I've attached some shots of work done and in the planning - the outdoor setting progress will be thrown up on Big Stuff for your amusement!
Cheers,
Dave (Turramurra)
well, after not touching a tool for many years, my wife and I have bought a lovely 70s timber house in northern Sydney and so I have the space and the environment conducive to getting back into it. Of course I'm referring to woodworking...
So far I've knocked up a cooktop/oven cabinet, mounted a horizontal base under the cathedral ceiling in the kitchen on which an expensive rangehood is now dangling precariously and am planning a host of other dodgy projects to massacre - including outdoor settings, decking, an outdoor entertainment area around the pool and a 300m tall spaceship. OK, so the spaceship was a silly gag - but who knows if we have kids one day??!!
Anyway, I have an engineering background but limited experience with carpentry though few things in life (while clothed) IMHO can offer the same joys as designing something and building it into life! Having recently discovered and fallen in love with Google Sketchup, I'm destined to be forever designing items far too complicated for me to build, but what's life without a challenge? I'm sure that's where you guys will be wonderfully helpful and hopefully in time I'll be able to return some of my experience and bits of advice.
Until we build a proper garage to replace the carport, my workspace is confined to our top balcony where I make do with limited space, hand tools and a continuum of fantastically useful comments from my lovely wife (like "wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to buy it?", "what - Bunnings again?? That's the 4th time today...", "why do things take 4 times longer than you estimate?", "I'd really like to be able to use the kitchen one day..." etc.).
So that's more than enough about me - thanks for reading this far and I look forward to sharing woodworking experiences here in the future! I've attached some shots of work done and in the planning - the outdoor setting progress will be thrown up on Big Stuff for your amusement!
Cheers,
Dave (Turramurra)