Greetings Earthlings!

[ATSystems]

Ave Woodwranglers!

Despite many years of lurking in the shadows of many forums going right back to.. Well, the times when forums were known as bulletin boards and you needed a telephone with a curly cord and handset to connect to the "internet", this is the first I have signed up to for a very long time.

I am an IT monkey/AV tech/electronics nerd/garage hacker who after many years of half arsed wood jobs has decided to go hang out with some people who know more than me, in the hopes that my antics may induce enough sympathy that people will take pity enough to help me out Specifically I am getting deep into furniture restoration and wood toys and outdoor furniture making for fun and profit. I have also been known to bang bits of plywood into each other until I get roughly robotic shapes, but the most spectacular part of that is the fire when something goes up in smoke, not the robots themselves. As my bio says, my biggest hobby is trying to work out what my hobby actually is, which is a great deal of fun all unto itself.

Looking forward to learning and maybe even helping out a little where I can, I am a firm believer that the stupidest question is one unasked, but I am also a big believer in showing people how to learn instead of just telling them how its done.. If that makes sense.. which it likely doesn't.

Anyway, that's me, thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for stifling your giggles over my half arsed projects the help you may or may not offer!

- ATSystems

[crowie]

G'Day & Welcome to a top forum "ATSystems".
There are a stack members across the Sydney area plus the rest of the country.....
You'll find a heap of helpful & knowledgeable blokes & ladies on the forum and for most very willing to assist.
Make sure you show off your handiwork as everyone loves a photo, especially WIP [Work In Progress] photos with build notes.
Enjoy the forum.
Enjoy your woodwork......
Cheers crowie

PS - Keep an eye out for a get together for the Sydney area forum members.
Great way to met & make friends.

[ATSystems]

Woo! I'm a real human.. forum member! Thanks crowie, though I'm certain I've seen this reply somewhere before..

Figured I may as well dump some recent projects and works in progress while I'm here instead of gumming up other peoples threads. First is the bench I built to allow me to actually get some woodwork done, 100% reclaimed timber, 4x4's from a Rail NSW skip (I believe they stack it between rail sections during shipment/storage) and a bench top that used to be the rafters of my inlaws back verandah. Everything I had to date was built for electronics, this is sturdy enough to plane, saw, and generally wail on..

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Top half of a yet to be properly dated cabinet, the rest is sitting in a garage in Springwood NSW to be picked up this weekend, along with a second cabinet, some chests, and an old RCA radiogram. Had horrible MDF shelving and back panel, the former will be replaced once I can ID the timber, the latter will be replaced with some ply I have just stained ready to go. All it really needed was some restor-a-finish to bring it back to life, but trying to get the top cornice back on nicely is killing my life. This is shot before I started work, if you lurk the restoration section you'll soon be seeing a lot more of this..

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The next two have been sitting around for a good year and were the impetus to get my butt into gear and build a proper shop. Two lovely sideboards I pulled out of the garage of a deceased estate. The first had water damaged veneer which I have stripped and not done much with, because the prospect of getting it right terrifies me (huge perfectionist here) and I am still umming and ahhing on which type of wood to use, the second had wrecked varnish and needed a strip. Yes, the doors are a different varnish to the drawers, this is what I get for taking varnish advice from 19 year old uni students at Bunnings, but I rolled the dice and chose my own which is on the drawers, and it looks glorious to my eye. Shame I'll need to strip the doors again though. Can't date either of these, though there is a makers mark on the bottom cabinet I need to research, I'll get my head around all this soon. They both have hand cut dovetails on the drawers, so that's something I guess.

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Unfortunately I lost a lot of photos of earlier works due to a house break/theft of PC gear in a few years ago so I don't have a lot of the robotic beasties I made, but again, I have a shop back, there will no doubt be more coming soon!

[JJF]

Welcome to the forum

[old1955]

Welcome to the forum.

[ATSystems]

Thanks guys, an amazing range of topics on this board, looking forward to getting amongst them

[Christos]

Welcome to the forum.