Another Introduction

**Robynb** · 20th March 2007, 08:16 PM

Hello Everyone,

I'm Robyn from WA. I've been lurking here for a while, but have not posted before.

I've been playing with woodwork for a couple of years, but still very much a beginner. I've had no previous experience - I come from the era when I had to do embroidery at school while the boys did wordwork! I never finished that embroidery piece, and never did it again - I hated it!!

I started woodwork because I needed something to stand on to mount my horse. Milk crates work well, but one ends up putting one's foot through when the crate gets a bit old. I made that piece using a hand saw, glue, screws and a book on joints. Then I made a taller one for hubby to put his welder on. Then I made another one as a stand for the pump on the fire trailer. Then I made onother one as a step to get up into the back of the big ute (F150). Then I decided I better make a workbench. The rest as they say is history.

Now I have a collection of hand planes (including a record 045), 3 routers (1 of them in a table I made), some Japanese hand saws and a heap of other power and hand tools. Hubby is now confined to one small corner of the shed and he's not happy. I've made some decorative boxes, a coffee table, some carved figures, and other bits and pieces. Currently I'm working on a chest of drawers. I decided I needed some dovetail practice, so the carcase and the drawers are all joined with hand cut dovetails.

I've joined a women's woodworking club here in Perth, and I'm learning some laminating and inlay techniques for jewellery making. Next stop - turning!

I love this forum, so much really good help and advice. So many great people.

Cheers, Robyn

**echnidna** · 20th March 2007, 08:20 PM

Welcome Robyn,
show us some pics of your work

**Robynb** · 20th March 2007, 08:34 PM

Thanks Bob. I'll do some pics as soon as I sort them out and figure out how to put them here!

Cheers, Robyn

**Doughboy** · 20th March 2007, 08:38 PM

Welcome Robyn

'Tis a good place to learn woody stuff, is this place.

**David L** · 20th March 2007, 08:43 PM

Welcome Robyn it is good to see more women coming out of the wood work so to speak
and identifying themselves it will encourage others to speak up I am sure.
It sounds like you have been working your way up through the confidence levels,
good on you.

**rona** · 20th March 2007, 09:19 PM

Hi Robyn, and welcome to the woodwork forum. I am sure you will enjoy some of the items that appear on here and some of the comments that accompany them from our members.
All the Best,
Cheers,
Ron.

**Robynb** · 20th March 2007, 10:19 PM

Thank you all for your warm welcome. I'm working on the photos.

Cheers, Robyn

**Robynb** · 20th March 2007, 10:22 PM

Here is the coffee table I made. Mine is the one with the backgammon insert. As you see, I still have a lot to learn about veneering.

Cheers, Robyn

**rona** · 20th March 2007, 11:00 PM

Hi Rob,
I wouldn't be knocking your veneering, it looks great, not the easiest thing in the world to do, especially the pattern you have chosen there. The last time I saw inlaid work of this nature was when I was in Jaycees Club in Maryborough, we visited the Castlemaine prison for a debating competition, and one of there pastimes was veneering and all types of inlaid work. It was not uncommon for them to spend up
to 100 hours on a job like yours, they were perfect not a mistake anywhere, as one prisioner said to me, 'we have all the time in the world to get it right'.
Keep up the good work, and keep sending in those pics !
Cheers,
Ron.

**AlexS** · 21st March 2007, 11:04 AM

Welcome Robyn - looking forward to more pics. Love the coffee table.

**jmk89** · 21st March 2007, 11:11 AM

Good to see your work - never having tried veneering, I can't comment, but it looks good to me.

Like the rest I look forward to hearing from you in the future and seeing more of your work.

Cheers

Jeremy

**echnidna** · 21st March 2007, 11:14 AM

It sure looks great to me.

**watson** · 21st March 2007, 10:22 PM

G'day Robyn.
Welcome and have fun here......there are some really good people in here......and I really think that your table is grouse!!
I only veneer mdf for box lids and bottoms.......no shapes.
More power to you!!
Regards,
Noel

**RufflyRustic** · 22nd March 2007, 09:02 AM

Hi Robyn

Welcome!!

Wonderful to hear that your journey into woodwork started from necessity. Great story - do you still have all of the stands/steps still?

Beautiful work on the table. How long did it take to build the hand-dovetailed chest of drawers? I have a dream of making something similar in the future too, just for the point of cutting all the dovetails by hand.

Thanks for the laugh re hubby getting pushed into a corner of your shed.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work

cheers
Wendy

**Robynb** · 22nd March 2007, 12:06 PM

Thank you all. I still have the stands, they are very handy bits of gear. They get used for all sorts of things. The chest of drawers is still in progress and has taken months so far. I've done the dovetails on the carcase and all but one of the drawers. The later dovetails look better than the first ones. My camera is in hospital at the moment - I'll post some pics as soon as it comes home.

Cheers, Robyn

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