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Location: Murchison, New Zealand
Website: www.steveracz.com
Woodworker since I was about 14, I interspersed a career in software development and management with a woodworking hobby and latent desire to be a cabinetmaker. After graduation from University, the first thing I did was enroll in a cabinetmaking certificate program which I received from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario. At one point I even tried quitting my corporate job to go work in a cabinetmaking shop but I might have been considered 'over qualified'. In between a difficult period in the industry in 2001, I got a part-time job with Home Depot in the lumber department which I thoroughly enjoyed but eventually went back to computers to pay the bills.
I now own and steward 250 acres of forest ( in New Zealand ) and found an employer willing to let me work remotely so we have made the move out of the city and have settled in Murchison, 12km from the forest property, the first step towards actually living on the forest property. After hours I can now spend more time at being a forester, managing a forest 'plantation', maintaining stewardship of a sustainable forest management plan for 200 acres of NZ Beech and kick starting a new career in forestry, wood products and cabinetmaking.
Most items I've built I've given away and there were long stretches of inactivity and just reading magazines so the portfolio of projects posted will grow over time.
Steve
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
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I know people move every day but I don’t suppose it is everyday that people move out of the city and back to the country. Well, maybe there are plenty of people who do that as well but for me it’s not even ‘back to the country&...
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lumberJONZ ( LumberJocks of New Zealand ) – ok, a small contingent anyway – got together for some fun with my new mill, a Peterson ATS swingmill portable sawmill. On a fine winter day, we hitched up the mill tucked into a 7×5 trai...
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Te Wai Pounamu, Aeteoroa- the Maori name for the south island of New Zealand. New Zealand consists of 2 islands roughly the same size but with 3 million people on the northern, slightly warmer island and only 1 million on the south island, the sou...
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If you’re a fan of Sketchup for creating woodworking models, then the next obvious step is to use Sketchup to help you create cutlists and layouts. Sketchup plugin Cutlist 4.0 does just that. CutList 4.0 sketchup plugin helps you determine h...
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I promised some more info about my log building course experience. There has been some delay due to some discussions with the course owner about intellectual property. That is another discussion on its own, but for now we have to come to terms abo...
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WayneC
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Welcome to LumberJocks. Enjoy the community.
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Welcome to LumberJocks. Glad to have you aboard.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
Thos. Angle
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Welcome to LJ. It’ s good to have a Kiwi here. You may be the first from NZ. Enjoy yourself.
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Welcome to Lumberjocks!
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Welcome to LumberJocks. We hope you come to stay. You have questions, we’ll answer them…You have answers, we’ll question them. Enjoy
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Max
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Glad to see that you have made Lumberjocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome…
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Welcome to our woodworking community!
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Love your avatar!
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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Thank you!
For the birthday comment, better late than never.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
TreeBones
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posted 458 days ago
This is a great site. Glad to see you here. You have some cool projects. I am going to see about using some oak to replace the handle on my peevee.
-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/
Bureaucrat
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posted 77 days ago
Congratulations on your upcoming 2 year anniversary being a Lumber Jock. Thanks for helping to make this a great site!
-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!
daltxguy
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posted 76 days ago
Cheers Gary for the anniversary wishes. Not that the passage of time is anything difficult, though. I’m 2 years older but 2 years wiser, thanks to LJ.
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
Profenceworks
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posted 10 days ago
Hey daltxguy
I was checking out your projects and got a kick out of the “not so successful bench”. Looks like my handy work from when I was a youngster!
-- Brent Builds Fences in Georgia http://www.profenceworks.com http://www.profenceworks.com/wood_fencing/custom.html
daltxguy
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posted 10 days ago
Hi Profenceworks ( Brent)! Looks like I should have got to know you a long time ago! I wish I was a youngster again, if only to have a double lifetime of woodworking. I’ll be done practicing in about a couple of decades or so :)
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com