Thread: A new guy from South Gippsland

Hi all,
I have just started woodworking in the last eighteen months and have built up a basic set of hand tools (even joined the HTPAA!), I am learning mostly on pallet wood before I build my skills enough to pay for something to bodge up!!
I live in Leongatha, which is about 90 minutes south east of Melbourne and use mainly unpowered hand tools. This stops me waking the kids up as the only time I can get to my corner of the garage is after they are finished for the day.
It's funny but I never really anticipated having a passion for anything like this but have discovered a love of building furniture, even if my efforts are still pretty 'rustic' - as in, you can drive truck through my dovetails!!! I am building a table at the moment and it is tough/time consuming but massively rewarding when I get the joints to fit together nice and tightly.
Anyway, it is great reading through all the threads and listening to those with the know-how, i can see this as being a long journey!
thanks for your time
Nick