Thread: Meet the Gidgee family.....

Hi Ian

Just seen this thread.

I'm speechless ..... almost That is one of the most stunning collections I have seen! Every tool is an individual masterpiece.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Ian

Bravo! They look beautiful....

I can say (very proudly) I have a set of Ian Wilkie saws......ok not Gidgee but I absolutely love my hand saws especially the half back all rounder which has been used to death on my bench build.

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Originally Posted by Milo

Ian

Bravo! They look beautiful....

I can say (very proudly) I have a set of Ian Wilkie saws......ok not Gidgee but I absolutely love my hand saws especially the half back all rounder which has been used to death on my bench build.

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Ummmmm. I'm wondering if there should be a register for an IW tool owners club ?

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Ummmmm. I'm wondering if there should be a register for an IW tool owners club ?

Regards
Paul

Paul

I think you have to be insanely lucky and in the right place at the right time like I was......but if you ask VERY nicley and have no time expectations and front up with a few $$$ he just might.........Ian?

Bryan

Originally Posted by Milo

Paul

I think you have to be insanely lucky and in the right place at the right time like I was......but if you ask VERY nicley and have no time expectations and front up with a few $$$ he just might.........Ian?

Bryan

Bryan

I have it on good authority you are exactly right . I'm sure it would be a very exclusively register and more coveted than that for the Bentley Continental R Type for example .

Regards
Paul

Have to agree with you Ian regarding Mulga.

I have turned several pens from it and they take a magic finish.

It's bloody hard and very bloody hard on saw blades! Despite
the hardness it is good to turn.

Back in the 50s many smaller house hold item like vases and ashtrays were
turned from Mulga. In fact I have several such pieces that were given to my parents as gifts.

Must plead guilty to gathering Mulga for firewood when I lived in Broken Hill.

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Terry Gordon has this ringed Mulga spoke shave up for sale on his web site just now.

Originally Posted by kevjed

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Terry Gordon has this ringed Mulga spoke shave up for sale on his web site just now.

There you go Ian - if you buy that Spokeshave you'll get a couple of marking knives out of it I reckon.

Cheers
Brett (also a member of the IW Tools club - 3 saws 2 marking gauges, knife - so far)

Originally Posted by artme

.......Back in the 50s many smaller house hold item like vases and ashtrays were
turned from Mulga. In fact I have several such pieces that were given to my parents as gifts......

Artme, I remember seeing lots of those sorts of things made from Mulga in my youth, too. Not just turnings, but oblique slices of branches with pen or card holders attached, and some with weather instruments. They usually had the sapwood & bark intact, as I recall, & no radial splits, which indicates how little the stuff shrinks from green.

Originally Posted by artme

Must plead guilty to gathering Mulga for firewood when I lived in Broken Hill.

Don't feel too bad, I helped slaughter hundreds of cords of She-oak for firewood as a teenager. We sold it to the Malanda butter factory to feed their boiler. Now it's one of my favourite tool handle woods, and I lament the zillions of potential saw handles etc, that went up in smoke. The good news is that a lot of the She-oaak has regrown and is of useable saze again.

And lay off the compliment stuff, youse blokes - I get embarassed easily!

Cheers

Originally Posted by Milo

Paul

I think you have to be insanely lucky and in the right place at the right time like I was......but if you ask VERY nicley and have no time expectations and front up with a few $$$ he just might.........Ian?

Bryan

Bryan

Would this tools 004.jpg qualify me for the register?

Regards
Paul

WOW BM!!!
Such talent! such finishing!

If I had either of those they would be in a display cabinet.

Beautiful work as usual IanW. Well done.


Regards,

Denim.

Originally Posted by artme

WOW BM!!!
Such talent! such finishing!

If I had either of those they would be in a display cabinet.

Arthur

Just so there can be no misunderstanding, they are of course courtesy of the very modest and easily embarassed IW . (I wasn't absolutely sure who you were complimenting . )

You have also brought up another very moot point. I am reasonably organised in a chaotic sort of way. By that I mean I improvise storage areas out of whatever I have to hand. For example I have an old set of small cupboards. I think there are 35 drawers and I use them to store drills, marking out tools, cutting tools etc. etc..

My old marking guage was just thrown in the marking tool drawer. I cannot possibly do that to the IW guages. I am at a loss as what to do with them as I have no exquisite cupboards: There is no Studley tool cabinet in the Bushmiller premises .

As we have a king size bed I have considered placing the gauges in the middle as pride of place, but I think the other side of SWMBO's nature would come rather quickly to the surface and that's ugly. While she is not totally opposed to wood in the bed, I don't think it would fit in with her interpretation. So for the moment the IW gauages keep going from pillar to post as I decide each spot is totally unsuitable.

I will find the perfect home for them soon .

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Nice tools, the Dead Finish I have could be used to make stuff like that.

Cliff I have heard of the tree and I did consult our friend (Mr G) for info, but have you or indeed anybody else out there made items from it. I am guessing that like gidgee it normally only produces smaller timber, although I did see a reference that Dead Finish could grow to 450mm dia.

I feel sure Ian would be able to do justice to some of it so long as there is room in his stockpile .

Regards
Paul