Thread: Hello from Brazil

Hi everyone!

I am from Brazil and work with sales, but in my spare time I like to do woodworking for me and sometimes for a friend, only amateur woodworking. I live in Mato Grosso do Sul, a state in central region of Brazil, near the Pantanal and Bonito-MS. I live in the city, but my father and mother has a small farm near here, with a with a beautiful river to fish, where I have my woodshop.

Is a simple woodshop, a shed without walls, only roof, that served as a sheep barn for the previous owner. Here we have a warm climate, even in the winter temperatures rarely get below 15° C (59° F), in the other seasons temperatures stay frequently at 30° C (86° F), and in the summer is no rarely 36° C (97° F) and even more. So walls is not essential, could be good for storage cabinets, but for now it is not in my planes.



I like to work with wood, I dont like so much plywwod, although I use in combination with wood. But I realy dont like MDF. In the Brazil more and more the woodworkers are using MDF for kitchen cabinets, and for all cabinets for the house. Although we have huge reserves of timber, which could be used sustainably, we do not have a sustainable extraction, the wood is increasingly rare in stores.
But I am persistent and how I an only amateur, making furnitures for me, I still work with wood. I like to do real woodworking with mortise and tenons, dovetailed drawers, frame and panel doors, and so... I like to do things that will last, that will survive me. In the stile I like the classic, cabriolet and ogee feets, for exemple.

I worked much time with just a few machines, doing much of the work with hand tools. In the beginning I was only a circular saw and a router table, then I buy a planer, and recently I buy a bandsaw and a (12") jointer. Before I did all the work of jointer the boards with a stanley #7 in my bench. Now I use the planes more for smoothing the pieces.

The literature about woodworking in portuguese is very rare, so I need to go to the english books and magazines, and, of course, in the web. I always read eventually this fórum, coming more here from the searches in Google. Now I make my register, I am very slow to write in english, but as far as possible I hope to participate from time to time.

I'm leaving the link in my blog, if anyone is interested in seeing some of what I do. The blog is in portuguese, sorry. In the blog I post some of my works, and some tecniques about woodworking, like a small article about the various tipes of mortise and tenon. I am also an actively member of a brazilian woodworking fórum, where we are trying to improve the woodwork, at least the amateur, in Brazil

aluiziotomazelli.blogspot.com

Greetings from Brazil
Tomazelli