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    old softwood wallets

    Great for sure, built a bookcase out of them once, A bit thin once dressed but Still hold the books.
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    Will spend the first week getting into another routine,have no excuse to avoid exercise...
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    well no time now

    I am now unemployed from my mortgage job!
    Another door closes another one opens
    SHMBO has directed me to startup the internet business again selling scrapbook supplies, This will enable me to build...
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    strange

    strange aint it, I always replace the plastic ones with metal ones, but I am of the old school
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    spring test

    now let me reemeber back 25 years...
    give them a stretch, but not too much, see if they spring back, and check for stress marks.
    then press them down evenly and see if they spring back ok, most of...
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    Asked by Daughter to fix the benchtop

    Hello again,
    I am freezing my toes off down here in Albury visiting my daughter, I am about 700kms away from home and my daughter has asked me to fix her timber benchtop, it has a burn mark.
    I...
  6. Thread: Hi everybody

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    Welcome to the welcome wagon

    Well this seems to be the place, I use this forum for my work often as a reference, a lot of knowldege and well other stuff here
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    I just looked over my post again. When I said...

    I just looked over my post again.
    When I said the used rags, etc in the back, I meaqnt around the back of the seat, the bits you dont sit on.
    In the back I think I remember the use of...
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    Well That is why I Dont......

    I was trained by my Dad in tradional upholstery and am able to do stitched edges and seat springing, etc.

    The "old" club lounged from the 30s & 40s were manufactured from old packing crates and...
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    Thanks fellas, I dont think the penetrol is...

    Thanks fellas,
    I dont think the penetrol is required as I ripped off the paint with a flapper disc and maznaged to get a real interesting finish that looks similar to the surface oif the moon!!...
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    Waterbased Undercoat Turps topcoat

    Yep I did it .....

    Doing up my new/old trailer.
    I stripped off all the old paint from the timber and metal, painted the metal with coldgal undercoat, painted the timber with waterbased under...
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    Good to see the First Bloke...

    Great see that the "first Bloke" as opposed to the first lady getting involved , hope he's had his prostate checked:U
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    yep saw that, I love osbourne hammers, and my son...

    yep saw that, I love osbourne hammers, and my son "borrowed" my ripping chisel and I have never seen it again, maybe will get a new one and another hammer, can never have too many hammers
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    of all this I concur. I got a $45 gun from...

    of all this I concur. I got a $45 gun from supercheap after my trade guns from fasco 20 years ago cost me over $100 for new seals etc. I also had a nice bostick one that would be over 30 years old...
  14. Thread: Sprung cushions

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    my old dad taught me the trade, although it has...

    my old dad taught me the trade, although it has been 20 years since i did it, we used 2 peices of very thick masonite (I still have them in my shed!)or thickish ply with rounded corners and strapped...
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    Prices looked good until I discovered they were...

    Prices looked good until I discovered they were in Americcee
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    Leather Tops

    Leather comes in different thickness's and grades. When a hide is treated (there is an official word, but i dont remember what it is), it is split into different types, eg top crust upholstery (the...
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    white ants

    our White ants or Termites are really just little white cockroaches who like wood instead of whatever the big black cockroaches who used to live in my shed ate!!!
  18. Thread: Shed visitor

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    nice to see critters in sheds

    Sure beats the critters I had in my "old shed", I seemed to breed big black cockroaches and blue tongue lizards who ate them!

    Have now got my shed complex built, but our business has taken over...
  19. Thread: Rude Customers

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    oh I love it, can I try it at work soon????

    oh I love it, can I try it at work soon????
  20. Thread: Mens Sheds

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    This may be too late

    Been a long time since I have been here, I have been working too hard and long and burnt out a couple of months ago, but am now going ahead full steam.

    I am interested in seeing a "plague" of...
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    in my upholstery and antique restoration days my...

    in my upholstery and antique restoration days my dad used to chringe when the "ladies" mentioned "oh we polish it once a week" and then they continued with " with Mr Sheen" we used to have to take of...
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    sssshhh, I just saved all the pics to my 'puter,...

    sssshhh, I just saved all the pics to my 'puter, so I can (in the future) make a box and remember how to do it
  23. Thread: Time Out

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    sad to hear that another fella has trouble with...

    sad to hear that another fella has trouble with the ticker, hope you get it all under control

    and dont rush getting "back to it!"
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    Well I went al the way thru this post with little...

    Well I went al the way thru this post with little or no interst (two reasons 1. too hot, 2. large wound on back from cancer removal ( I hope!)) but got to the one about linseed, beeswax and (what was...
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    as i sit in almost 40 degree heat at midnight I...

    as i sit in almost 40 degree heat at midnight I drool at this post.


    ahhh cool air, but where to place one? in the lounge room, in our bedroom, in the kitchen????


    to many unanswered...
  26. Thread: new addition

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    Congrats, a nice addition to the workshop there!

    Congrats, a nice addition to the workshop there!
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    An expert opinion, somewhere

    I hope yopu consulted with him about this.....


    the "experts" say we should talk to them about this so they feel "included"

    I have a 13 yo who now has a Tv and a DVD player in her room, I...
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    Poll: not sure again

    as I sit at a mates place with a white port (yum) and no real shed to do "real" woodwork in yet, a wife who is sitting st home with 3 kids and 2 extras, and i don't smoke , or drink too much...
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    don't burn it

    Well, my sugestion would be to burn it, but as a fireplace it might be difficult.


    go and get some elbow grease, you will need it, paint stripper will be needed and then you will need to...
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    Poll: what there is a place better than mitre 10 and...

    what there is a place better than mitre 10 and bunnings??????????????????


    wow we do miss out in the country!!!
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    Prepsol or the like

    I was introduced to prepsol when I did my TAFE course restoring my community project, a 1974 Dodge ambulance... but another story

    The TAFE guys swear by this stuff, they even use it to clean the...
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    yep the right track

    yep the push in brads are the way to go for "the home glazier", unless you know a glazier with a bradder who will let you use it.

    I spoke to my local glazier (whom I worked for after a couple of...
  33. Thread: Free Red Cedar!

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    my heart just skipped a beat, My dad had...

    my heart just skipped a beat,

    My dad had bucketloads of red cedar,f rom when the local dam was built, they were just going to burn them, so he go together with some mates from the pub (from the...
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    nice to see metric

    I love the one about tying a bolt around their legs... if we had them here I would try it, at least the bastards wouldn'tcomplain about our cats, even thought they are inside all night and cant be...
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    some of the answers

    I went off and did a search, found this link, but there are more!!!

    I too have an interest in the perfect mitre as I ahve 20 kitchen doors to make, the first 2 look like ............ well I did...
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    sounds like me

    I have had the same problem, I "borrowed" my dad in laws triton bench, works great.... but needs to go back!

    I will watch with baited breath on the solution as I will have 140mm lining boards to...
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    yep

    yep i agree that finish restorer may be a start, i found out about this stuff years ago, unfortunatly after I did my trade, might have saved weeks of work on stuff!!!

    0000 steel wool is and idea...
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    the right biscuits

    I got a biscuit jointer last year from santa, it looks real nice in the blowmold case, I used it to join the bits of 32mm MDF and particleboard to form the top of my kitchen. I found that buying the...
  39. Thread: Shed pics

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    what do you do with that bit of ...

    I was wondering as a bit of a novice to having a woodworking shed..
    on the third pic there is a red coloured machine with a round thing on the front up against the wall, I think it might be a...
  40. Thread: my 1st for 2005

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    looks nice

    nice piece of work there, not bad for a mornings knockup
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    hey they are nitto mate

    yep they is the connectors that I got b4.

    the ones I had fitted to my staple 15 years ago (or so) are not the nitto ones, so will have one hose with nitto on one end and the old fittings on the...
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    still here at....

    here I am still here at 11.20 on xmas night (not eve) I have my new toy in the "shed" .
    only a 24l GMC compressor, might wake up the kids and wife if I start it up now.

    I only have one...
  43. Thread: UK Christmas

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    north coast NSW

    we had a pleasant overcast day temps up to 30 today and down to 25 now with nice steady rain.aaahhhh

    gee I must be old I get tired just lounging around and eating, but started at 5 am iwth first...
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    still awake

    my excuse is that I am waiting for my shortbread biscuits to cook....
    and for my 13 yo to go to sleep so santa can come.

    I have learnt heaps today, some of which are

    1. never start cooking...
  45. Thread: UK Christmas

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    Wish I was there

    Bloody Lovely!!!

    Love it, wish it were like that here, apart from the hassle of getting around, but better than avoiding storms?

    we are expecting a mild 35 degrees here, if it aint over cast,...
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    Ohh the days

    I have had my HO scale set packed away for 5 or so years (maybe 10) as we just havent had the room or me the time to "play"with it!!!

    am hopefully in the process of getting a 2 car shed built...
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    the difference?

    The difference I see is.........

    A Tradesman is able to foresee a stuff up and maybe avoid it, if s/he doesn't is able to cover it up.

    A Craftsman is still able to forsee a stuff up and maybe...
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    Vacuum White dust

    dont use the vacuum too much on the plaster dust, it absorbs the moisture and clogs up the workings and rusts everything,
    A lesson we learnt on our new vac!!!

    we use the old one for the...
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    A screen Door?

    I would use something heavier, but then I always do.....

    All my voices are telling me that I should go and build now, but it is 12.30 in the morning, could upset the neighbours with the saw!!
    ...
  50. Thread: Plane Tragic?

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    all go away new

    wewnt for $1850, I better not loose my$2 chaepie, might be worth soemthing to my kids.
    At least I can get it to work it did wonders on the reveals around the kitchen window
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