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G'day Allison,

if you are based around the south of NSW be sure to check out KOSCIUSZKO HUTS ASSOCIATION - http://khuts.org

They do great work and have loads of knowledge to share. you'll even...

Olla Fella,

i just picked up a restored adze from Sneddens Rural Fencing Products for Farm Fence Australia Quality Fencing Products Australian Made at a field day, and the grain ran the same way...

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Cheers

Matt

green wood is great, but if you have 150 acres of standing trees, then there will be some freshly fallen ones, use those :)

do you have a chainsaw? you'll need one unless you are realy fit and...

i didn't have the heart to point it out

Cheers Matt

i stand corrected,

also Adze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia just in case any one is interested. although the froe would be much more controllable

Cheers

Matt

hey,

funny i should stumble across this thread. I'm also studying to be a building designer and also interested in shakes and shingle roofing. i got a froe made from mild steel bar and pipe but...

so the idea has legs but as as texx pointed out the angle swapping is the hard part unless the bike in question was a sport bike with a dry sum and fuel injection... or the bike swing arm tensioned a...

G'day all

I was just thinking why hasn't any one used a motor bike frame and swing arm to make a static mill? if you replace the shock with a hydraulic ram or some sort of adjuster and sick a...

thanks, that was a welcome distraction from my assignment : )
interesting how they mentioned that some of the trees are being saved, in a post war America that is booming. i'm glad they saved some...

the froe is easy i had my local welder knock one up for $30 and i just made the handle and sharpened it with an angle grinder.

oh you'll like the induction it means you have some people you know right from the start. and it's nothing hard just a bit of messing about and getting to know the basics of how the place works.
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you might be right there i'm basing this off when i worked there a few years ago now

welcome aboard

as a former bunnies employee my self, once you have been there for lets say 6 months are are are sick on the poor management you can move onto a proper tool shop : ) talk to Andrew at gasweld down...

welcome!

can i start by asking what timbers you used in the uk? and whats close to then in oz? i've tryed with oak and it's hard!

cheers Matt

ha ha no those are my fingers

stan is the owner of http://www.mullumbimbywoodworks.com.au/ and there is a profile of him there

he does a realy entertaining stage show at the working with wood...

ok here are the pics of stans froe,
...

i also saw them very speccy indeed

i managed to get some photos of stans froe today so i'll post those up soon

he also had a david foster axe, a gransfores bruks sweadish carving axe, some sort of english pattern drawknife (100+...

despite the missing big names it was a great show, the guild had a great set up and stan was there at his entertaining best.

there was some bloke there making green wood chairs but he seemed to...

i talked to some one at work who had been and well lets face it if they had got what they were after the wouldn't have been there. i know carbatec arn't there nor are timbicon, but jim carrol is!...

that mustard axe looks good, might have a punt at that. time to start working on the froe too. i managed to pick up a tct auger bit cheap at carbatec, they stoped selling them and are getting rid of...

unfortunately that yard is a bit of a tragedy, logs of red ceder, a million different types of eucalypt, and all sorts of wonderful wood just gets chipped! :no:

as for the axe I havn't had it long...

here are some pics of the little wetterlings and don't worry that "tree" ends just above the photo. it was taken at my local council wood...

wow... so there are a few green wood workers out there

and there all in Brisbane :p

some one said somthing about a yankee axe, and some one said something about not being the greenest way of...

well there you go, i'll have to have a look around the "local" country markets.

there are a few threads on making froes i found too.

Matt

g'day every one

i'm sick of this bit being to empty so heres a post

it seems the biggest problem people wanting to do green woodworking in oz face is getting the tools, well the truth is you...

good to hear your enjoying you nova, mine is being fixed again soon (this one was my fault)

Matt

my nova 1622-44

has been a right pain in the neck! if it wern't for the awesome customer service of trend timbers it'd still be going any way it wanted! not to mention the kicking i got from some...

thanks guys i'll give tecnatool a ring tomorrow and find out about getting it replaced under warranty. the lathe is less then a year old (i got mine 2 weeks before Toni got hers)

Matt

g'day/night all

yep the lemon (tecnatool 16-44) has struck again! this time it will go in reverse when you turn it on and it's set to forwards or it'll just sit there buzzing polled out. unless...

the base was kinda an after thought where as the top had over night to dry. so with both changing shape rapidly i just didn't have time to let the base dry enough to sand it any further. so i carved...

after a long time off the lathe i had another crack at it. and came up with this. turned and finished green it's some sort of white ceder. and it's now far from round the top and base are turned from...

oh heres a good old thread. there has just been another release of coopers vintage extra stong, it's just like a chinmay imho and half the price which mean it's still flaming expensive but very nice....

i used to sell them (should i be admitting to that?), at first i thought i know what that is it's a turning chuck... then i had a play with it and thought nope it can't be it's too rubbish. turns...

ok i have been messing about with the 3d software and i have made this little thing with all turned shapes.

Matt

where is the fun in that?

it was using mertle by the way.

Matt

p.s. i'm sure the was a post i was replying to now it's gone.

i was going to turn a chess piece as a paper weight, and my brother challenged me to turn a knight! i can't resist a challenge and it was going well till it snapped in the center. but i'm sure it...

sound like a good idea, but i can see a few problems in terms on location, unless we put in in the alice then it'll be the same distance for every one...

but seriously turning is dangerus at the...

with a topic named the horror the horror i'd say it's not off topic at all :U but mabey for the sub fourm.

i'm going to the yard today to see whats happened but i suspect it'll be totaly...

wow i didn't expect such a responce.

it's good to see atleast some has tryed to do somthing with the timber and that the goverment was so suportive. they don't alow the use of chain saws in the...

a few people from this fourum who are in canberra might know about the curtin tree services dumping ground. it was a great place there you could go in with a trolly or wheel barrow and pick up a log...

"carpe lignem turne lignem"? the spelling is probly out.

as for the coat of arms it must be round!

Matt

i dof my cap sir was it as fun as it looked?

Matt

i have a triton but the bigest problem for me is the batterys, they are 6 months or so old and won't keep a charge. admitedly i don't treat them the way ni cads should but 6 months! i like the...

in the latest? wood reveiw mag there is a section by richard raffin on chosing a lathe
which you might find interisting.

Matt

this might sound a silly question but do you have a band saw? because if you don't then it's realy nice to have a good low speed. it's also good if you want to have a go at of center things.

my...

i'd love to see a tutorial on that! did you take any pics while you were making it?

Matt

thats exactly what i was thinking when i saw it

Matt