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Location: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Website: http://adventuresinwoodworking.com
I'm a neanderthal woodworker living in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. While my hand tools limitation isn't ENTIRELY by choice, I do enjoy the challenges and problem solving that I'm forced to do in the absence of power tools.
Other places you can find me online:
Facebook: http://profile.to/offseid/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/offseid
-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com
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Bear with me. It’ll make sense eventually. I’ve got two vise screws. One was generously donated by a “homeboy” from the Porch, Bill Taggart, when I visited his place a couple few years ago. The other was a $10 eBay purch...
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So I had my order all lined up: 123 board feet of kapur wood. But I couldn’t pull the trigger. Why? The price. The total cost of the lumber needed for my workbench would have been $212. Maybe that’s not a lot; I don’t know what l...
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When going through marathon training (I ran three in 2001 and hope to run another in December of this year), one thing that you should always incorporate is cross-training. Typically one day a week, do something other than running to perhaps devel...
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There was (and still is) a book called The Inner Game of Tennis, and while I never read it, I remember one of the claims the book made. The claim was that the more one thought about playing tennis (and playing it well), the better one played tenni...
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Until last week, I had never read Woodworking Magazine. It first hit the press when I was already in Malaysia, and I never ran across it during my time in the States in 2006-7. But when my Shortcut on cutting curves without a bandsaw got accept...
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18 comments so far
cajunpen
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5952 posts in 816 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks. Enjoy the community.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
rikkor
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11345 posts in 625 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome aboard. You are going to like it here.
Tomcat1066
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776 posts in 547 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks!
-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!
Scott Bryan
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16261 posts in 573 days
posted 534 days ago
Glad to see that you have decided to make LJs one the steps in your woodworking experiences. You should find it enjoyable.
By the way I like your workbench. It is one of the more unique ones I have seen.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Dick, & Barb Cain
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6380 posts in 1050 days
posted 534 days ago
A Big Welcome from the colder side of the Earth!
-- -** 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
gene
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2163 posts in 634 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of LJ’s (Enjoy) Step on in, The water’s fine, fine, fine.
Ask, Show, Teach, Learn
There’s something here for anyone that likes working with wood.
Plus new friends
God bless
-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia
GaryK
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9429 posts in 739 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks! Enjoy yourself.
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
Max
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11235 posts in 1024 days
posted 534 days ago
Glad to see that you have made Lumberjocks a part of your Woodworking experience… Welcome…
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Karson
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21154 posts in 1151 days
posted 534 days ago
Welcome to LumberJocks. Glad to have you aboard.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
airfieldman
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72 posts in 561 days
posted 534 days ago
I too am a novice, but learning. Welcome!
I like your blog, especially your workbench!
-- Do what you love, the money will follow --Marsha Sinetar
TomFran
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2465 posts in 745 days
posted 533 days ago
Welcome to the forum! We’ll look forward to seeing some of your projects.
You can learn a lot here – and, share some of your ideas.
-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28
Dick, & Barb Cain
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6380 posts in 1050 days
posted 531 days ago
You call that warm, it’s -20 degrees today. LOL
-- -** 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
mot
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4892 posts in 787 days
posted 530 days ago
Hey! Welcome to LJ!
-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)
PanamaJack
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4449 posts in 828 days
posted 521 days ago
We would like to welcome you to the one and only LumberJocks. If you should need any woodworking question answered, don’t hesitate to ask. Somebody’s gonna have a good answer for you.
-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,
StraightEdge
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26 posts in 443 days
posted 427 days ago
Hey Eric
So close, yet so far! LOL
I’m new to this too…
Keep in touch
Carlyle
-- Cheers!
Beginningwoodworker
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2339 posts in 424 days
posted 411 days ago
Welcome to lumberjocks, I am a neanderthal woodworker myself even thou I own a few power tools.
-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker
Miki
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45 posts in 359 days
posted 358 days ago
no no , I just tell a turth. import wood product from china is not bad, chinese people are also good .
-- Everything is possible!
Texasgaloot
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467 posts in 451 days
posted 325 days ago
Anyone who is a neander-woodworker is a buddy of mine!
-- There's no tool like an old tool...