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  1. 26th February 2011, 09:39 AM #1
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    Default G'day from North Brisbane!

    G'day folks, I'm Rob, a.k.a. budgie.

    Having a part time hobby of every now and again renovating houses, my woodworking skills have strictly been limited to putting in a new kitchen or fitting new mouldings or timber floor. I'm interested in the more artistic side of woodworking, especially turning and furniture making.

    I plan on doing a few courses to improve my skills, so that those memories of my woodwork teacher at school yelling at me over my shocking joints will fade into the (ever more) distant past.
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    Welcome to the forum.

    Strange how so many students had yelling wood working teachers. I never had yelling teachers, normally when the teacher spoke we stopped working so that we could listen.



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    Quote Originally Posted by red_budgie View Post
    G'day folks, I'm Rob, a.k.a. budgie.

    I plan on doing a few courses to improve my skills, so that those memories of my woodwork teacher at school yelling at me over my shocking joints will fade into the (ever more) distant past.
    G'Day & Welcome Rob,
    I have similar memorys from Hendra High in the mid to late sixties, so much so that I switched to "metal work classes"; besides the "metal work" teacher was a good golfer & I eventually got on the school team, even practicing at Royal Queensland with Charlie Earp as our pro.
    Anyways, enough of my old timers memories.
    Enjoy your woodwork.
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    Crowie, indeed metalwork was fun. My metalwork teacher was eccentric to say the least. Never a boring lesson with him! He spent most of my years at school on his pet project to soup-up an old electric milk float (this was back in the UK in the late 70's). He'd replaced all the milk crate storage area with racks of batteries and used to race it round the school grounds.
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