Thread: Help needed what power tools to buy

Thanks John'o that would be great, just send me a private message and I will give you my email addy. I am getting excited abought this all, I did woodwork at school along with motor mechanics welding and electrical, so as you can see I am not scared to get my hands dirty or scunt up lol, no long finger nails for this little balck duck no no no sireeeee lol.
Also my hubby owns a welding shop, so I have acces to lots of toys there if needed.
A good think (I think) that he is interested in what I am going to undertake here, though he mostly works with steel and aluminium and race cars, he may be able to help me with some things. He did say last night he would teach me how to use a router, so I dont loose all my fingers lol, I am going to make a router table for it.
And I really cant live down the fact that I nearly cut my thumb off with a stanley knife, it was just a plain and simple accident, the knife hit the steel ruler I was using and of course went off track straight into my thumb. YIKES.
I am usually so very caureful with everything. As I also play piano and guitar, so I can not afford to loose any digits.
I am trying to put together this darn mitre box and saw set, as usual no instructions and what there is is all written in jibberish, lucky I can work things out by jsut looking at the picture on the box.

Ok Thanks all for your help.

Cheers Deb.

Thanks peter and mr moon, you must have written while I was lol, I will check out that website, and I would imagine that building ships ( I have looked at them) and dollshouses would be on a similar scale. Yes very tiny bits of timber indeed, but I figure if I can make lots of small parts in one sitting it will in the long run save me some dollars, as verandah posts are about $20 for two and windows for dollshouses are around $15 to $30 for a plain one, then you can get the real thing with sliding windows sashes etc and a stair case retails for around $50 so having to buy these components make a dollshouse quite expensive then to try and re sell I would not make any money out of it.

So I figure as I said make the parts I need in a couple of sittings, then sit and build build build.
I know I can do it, I just need the right tools.

I already have quite a stockpile of timbers I can use, I was lucky enough to find a furniture factory here that are willing to let me come and clean up their scrap pile and take away what I want for them, their small stuff is no good to them, and it is a goldmine for me, I have been able to aquire some gorgeous beechwood, lots of pine of course and lots of redgum, some of this is in really fine strips that they use along the edge of their funtiture items, I cut this down into lengths and use it for redgum flooring and wainscotting etc, it laquers up jsut beautiful.

Hmmmmm Thinking out loud, I think I best take another trip there, I havnt been for a bit, so the stock pile of scraps should be about right for the pickings by now lol.

Cheers Deb.

Originally Posted by dustygirl

And I really cant live down the fact that I nearly cut my thumb off with a stanley knife, it was just a plain and simple accident, the knife hit the steel ruler I was using and of course went off track straight into my thumb. YIKES.

I did a similar thing with a scalpel blade once - only I cut my wrist Luckily I got the wrong spot. Could have been very bad. The job I had at the time had me working with (among others) suicidal teens, and I turned up at work on Monday with a slashed wrist. Not a good look

Peter