Auld Bassoon
12th November 2005, 10:32 PM
Hi All,
Today I, with about a dozen or so other woodies, attended a one day router course presented by Richard Vaughan at the Holmesglen TAFE in Melbourne.
This course was kindly laid on on Grahame & Marita Waterson of Professional Woodpeckers - thanks Grahame & Marita! - an excellent effort - and good munchies too :)
Richard's presentation style is amusing, informative, detailed and very, very helpful. Even for a penumbral woodie (i.e. nearing the darkside:p ), I found his material, his learnings, and his general ww knowledge to be some very satisfactory ingredients into a days learning.
Of particular interest, to me at least, was his innovative and creative use of oh so simple, but also evidently highly effective jigs for making anything from "crooked tenons" - e.g. for chairs, to forms for shaping 1/4" square cross-section beads.
Like many real experts, he doesn't use overly complex or sophisticated equipment (his example router table was very reminiscent of that used and espoused by Gary Rogowski) - but it works, and that's the point.
There may be a chance for another similar course, perhaps again on routers, or perhaps on another topic. Send your votes/choices to Grahame and Marita!
For a measly $130 it was an excellent day!
My choice, if Richard were to be presenting, would be on joinery as first choice, and inlay work as a second.
Thanks once again Grahame & Marita - and, of course, to Richard!
Cheers!
Today I, with about a dozen or so other woodies, attended a one day router course presented by Richard Vaughan at the Holmesglen TAFE in Melbourne.
This course was kindly laid on on Grahame & Marita Waterson of Professional Woodpeckers - thanks Grahame & Marita! - an excellent effort - and good munchies too :)
Richard's presentation style is amusing, informative, detailed and very, very helpful. Even for a penumbral woodie (i.e. nearing the darkside:p ), I found his material, his learnings, and his general ww knowledge to be some very satisfactory ingredients into a days learning.
Of particular interest, to me at least, was his innovative and creative use of oh so simple, but also evidently highly effective jigs for making anything from "crooked tenons" - e.g. for chairs, to forms for shaping 1/4" square cross-section beads.
Like many real experts, he doesn't use overly complex or sophisticated equipment (his example router table was very reminiscent of that used and espoused by Gary Rogowski) - but it works, and that's the point.
There may be a chance for another similar course, perhaps again on routers, or perhaps on another topic. Send your votes/choices to Grahame and Marita!
For a measly $130 it was an excellent day!
My choice, if Richard were to be presenting, would be on joinery as first choice, and inlay work as a second.
Thanks once again Grahame & Marita - and, of course, to Richard!
Cheers!