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Location: Christchurch New Zealand
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I'm a software development manager by profession which seems a million miles away from working with wood.
I was born and raised in Scotland ane emigrated to New Zealand (via 12 years in England) six years ago.
I'm certainly no expert, up until now I've been making do with an engineers vice and an old desk.
My workshop is my garage that I share with my partners multisport raceboats.
I reckon the first project I post will be the woodworkers vice I am currently working on.
My first experience of working with wood has been attending a furniture making course in Christchurch. This has been fun and I still attend every week however it does focus on the big machines and I am starting to become more interested in the hand tools (and smaller power tools).
| commented on | WorkBench #4: Completing the base | 103 days ago |
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| added blog entry | WorkBench #2: Some more Pictures and the plan.. | 237 days ago |
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| commented on | The Vice - measure twice cut once - doh!!! | 432 days ago |
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Well it’s been 60 days since my last entry in the blog. My tardiness is due to spending most of my spare time in the shop working on my bench. I decided to go with the majority view and glue and pin the leg tenons.Here is a picture of one of...
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It’s been a while but I finally finished the last tenon on the long rails. I couldn’t wait to dry assemble so I could get an idea of how it will look. Here is a photo of the base: The next picture is the base plus one of the ...
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As promised here are a few more pictures.. First up the beech after planing: My car does not have a huge amount of room for carting around lumber and putting this stuff on the roofbars was out of the question so I had to roughly dimensio...
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Somebody told me a bench should be a woodworkers first project. Something to do with rites of passage. So here I am with 800NZD (or South Pacific Pesos) worth of European Beech in my garage and a design on sketchup. When the wood was deliver...
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So I got started on my vice at the weekend… Saturday Morning:Mistake number #1: I could not devote the whole weekend to this project, I was running in an 80km relay race to a beautiful place called Akaroa on Saturday morning then cycling ...
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Hello Grimt,
Welcome to LJs. I hope that you will find this to be an exciting and rewarding part of your woodworking adventure.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
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Welcome to Lumberjocks . This is a great community of people with like interests.There is much to learn here & you will have the opportunity to share your skills & ideas with others. I hope you enjoy LJ’s as much as I do.
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Welcome to LumberJocks. Glad to have you aboard.
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Welcome to LJ. You will like it here.
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Welcome to Lumberjocks! It’s a great place with great people, and, oh yeah, there’s the woodworking! Have fun and play safe! :)
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Welcome! enjoy your stay, and smell the sawdust.
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Hey Grimt! Welcome to LumberJocks! Walk around and enjoy yourself, there is plenty to do and see. If you need anything, give us a ‘holler.
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Welcome to LJ’s hope to learn along with you!
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Welcome. There are several other LJs from down your way.
Be sure to post some progress pics of your vice.
Cheers
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Welcome! I would suggest the next Lumberjocks picnic will be held in Hagley park…
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