G'day from snowy Ontario!

[Expat]

G'day all. Originally from Holland Park in Brissie I moved to Toronto 10 years ago to be with my bride to be and we are now married 5 years with 2yr old twin daughters. We bought our first home in Aug 2007 to the East of T.O. in Oshawa and I finally got around to putting together some decent tools in early 2008. So far I have my ts, router, planer, spidle/belt sander and a variety of power and hand tools.

My furniture from home arrived in August this year and I've been restoring it a bit at a time while trying to keep up with my girls and putting the house and yard into some kind of shape. I haven't had much time or space to build much yet, just some jigs, a fence for my router table and the odd knick knack so far. I was planning to surprise my in-laws with a magazine rack in roasted curly maple for Christmas but I ran into some problems including an end unit falling off my assembly area and shattering so I have had to delay the gift giving for now. I'm also half way through building a mobile workcentre to house the table saw, a new router table unit, a downdraft sanding station and all the accessories for those items. I finished my mobile planer stand with infeed/outfeed tables a couple of days before Christmas.

I'm coming home for a couple of weeks in January and I'm hoping to find supplies of hardwood that I can have shipped back to Canada as the availability of Aussie board stock is pretty slim around here. The store I drive to on the other side of T.O. for my r-c-m had some Mallee burls and 2 Jarrah boards but that was all. Dressed 4/4 about 8" wide and 4' long for $C160 per board!! Not bloody likely! I have four or five other lumber yards around here but most don't stock Aussie woods. There's a fair bit of South and Central American and some European woods available as well as the usual local species but I'd like a bit of home grown stuff every now and again!

Anyway, I'm looking forward to doing some reading and some posting here.

[Old farmer]

Good to hear from you, Expat. You have been very busy and congrtulations on your family.

Very best wishes to you all for the new year.

[Ed Reiss]

Welcome to the forums Expat!

[wheelinround]

Expat there are those on here who'd love what you can get in timbers over there

nice to see you here any how

heat waves 30C+ no snow yet anyway it has happened looking forward to photo's of your work and shop

[Expat]

Thanks fellas! I've posted a couple of pics in the wood working section. I didn't see a section specifically for shop pics.

[*Kev]

"I have four or five other lumber yards around here but most don't stock Aussie woods."

Welcome Expat,

You're starting to talk like them, be careful or you may become one

Regards Kev

[jerryc]

Welcome Mate,

I only visit Brissie when the winter down here in Melbourne gets set. Some European woods can have great grains and most woods are softer than Oz woods. Be great to see your work in whatever timber (lumber) you select.

Jerry

[artme]

G'day expat and welcome to the show!

[munruben]

Welcome to the forum. nice to have you aboard.

[Expat]

Fellas I have enough trouble trying to convince these poor people that it's aluminium and not aluminum! At least I still open the hood and boot of the car.

[artme]

Fellas I have enough trouble trying to convince these poor people that it's aluminium and not aluminum! At least I still open the hood and boot of the car.

WOT? Not the Bonnet??? Shame!!

[Expat]

I'm doing my best to educate these poor uncivilised folk but it's a tough road to hoe let me tell you! They get far too much Pommie influence and then there's the "neighbours"...... funny bunch those people across the lake let me tell you.

[Old farmer]

Keep trying, expat It is a good cause!.

[switt775]

I'm doing my best to educate these poor uncivilised folk but it's a tough road to hoe let me tell you! They get far too much Pommie influence and then there's the "neighbours"...... funny bunch those people across the lake let me tell you.

You think there is more pommie influence in Canada than in OZ??????

So how much cricket do you see over there? Or rugby? Or "hockey" with little curved sticks and knee socks?

[Expat]

You think there is more pommie influence in Canada than in OZ??????

Never said or hinted at that.

So how much cricket do you see over there? Or rugby? Or "hockey" with little curved sticks and knee socks?

Plenty of all those because of the huge Indian/Pakistani/W.I. population. I hate, hate, HATE that game they play on ice with sticks! The year of the lock out was so nice.