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Thread: G'day g'day, and how ya goin?
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2nd January 2011, 01:16 PM #1
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G'day g'day, and how ya goin?
Hi all, I signed up here a while ago and have slowly been looking round the site...there's a lot to read!
I live in Brisbane, originally from the UK, and have always had a big interest in working with wood, though not much time or proper skills to do much that I would care to show anyone! Functional but not beautiful I think sums up a lot of my stuff. I am definitely on the amateur end, but not a novice. I have recently built some large speaker cabinets of which I am quite proud (I'll post some pictures later if anyone is interested), and have recently been thinking more and more that I should really pursue my love of wood and tools and aquire some skills to go with my passion.
Would anyone be able to recommend a good place to start in Brisbane, i.e. a good general word working course? I guess I am unsure at this point quite which direction I want to head. Somewhere in between carpentry and joinery I suppose. I have a huge box of old hand tools I inherited from my father that I would also relly like to learn to use properly. I'll post some pictures of these too sometime! There's a bit of stuff in there I have no idea of the purpose for, and many others, such as a whole collection of different planes, that I know the use of (such as, er, planing), but not the specific function (for example some have a shape that suggests they may be specifically for door jambs or something!). I guess ideally I would love to find someone in Brisbane who also loves old hand tools who would be interested in taking a look and perhaps teaching me how to use them.
Any suggestions or offers would be most welome. I am of course willing to pay to learn.
Thanks, I look forward to delving further into this lovey site!
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2nd January 2011, 01:58 PM #2
welcome to the site. we need pics..
I am learning, slowley.
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2nd January 2011, 02:15 PM #3
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Okay...this is a mini "Rhino" scoop (sub woofer) I recently finished:
And this is what it looked like mid-build:
Don't have any pictures of the tools on my comp...will have to take some and post later.
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2nd January 2011, 02:27 PM #4
Welcome JL, very funky colours
the colour of music. I'm sure you'll enjoy the forum.
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2nd January 2011, 11:20 PM #5
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G'day JL and welcome to the madness!!!
Just guard those old handtools very carefully - there are some darksiders lurking hereabouts.
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3rd January 2011, 12:50 PM #6
Welcome aboard JL; speaker looks good. Nice and colourful.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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5th January 2011, 07:46 AM #7
Welcome to the forum. Ah the joy of wood working. Should really say the joy of creating because that is what you have done.
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