Thread: G'day g'day, and how ya goin?

Hi all, I signed up here a while ago and have slowly been looking round the site...there's a lot to read!

I live in Brisbane, originally from the UK, and have always had a big interest in working with wood, though not much time or proper skills to do much that I would care to show anyone! Functional but not beautiful I think sums up a lot of my stuff. I am definitely on the amateur end, but not a novice. I have recently built some large speaker cabinets of which I am quite proud (I'll post some pictures later if anyone is interested), and have recently been thinking more and more that I should really pursue my love of wood and tools and aquire some skills to go with my passion.

Would anyone be able to recommend a good place to start in Brisbane, i.e. a good general word working course? I guess I am unsure at this point quite which direction I want to head. Somewhere in between carpentry and joinery I suppose. I have a huge box of old hand tools I inherited from my father that I would also relly like to learn to use properly. I'll post some pictures of these too sometime! There's a bit of stuff in there I have no idea of the purpose for, and many others, such as a whole collection of different planes, that I know the use of (such as, er, planing), but not the specific function (for example some have a shape that suggests they may be specifically for door jambs or something!). I guess ideally I would love to find someone in Brisbane who also loves old hand tools who would be interested in taking a look and perhaps teaching me how to use them.

Any suggestions or offers would be most welome. I am of course willing to pay to learn.

Thanks, I look forward to delving further into this lovey site!