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awesome work havinago. how did you do the boat?

i'd love to know
:)

I figured it was because men like to talk about the size of things in inches. :P

brass work is often also done by student jewelers, perhaps the local uni might some someone keen to help?

Wow, what an informative bunch you are. Those are some really detailed explanations.

You all might be interested in this website that i stumbled across, it's full of very old books on all sorts of...

thanks Stuart :) i figure I've got to start my metal working somewhere, may as well be tinsheet.

Actually I realsie I'm being over pedantic about it, got caught in a worry loop. I'm fretting over 1mm!
I'll got with using pi
:)

Hi all, I've been driving myself a bit crazy over this, and I'm sure it's simple enough. I'm designing a cake tin for a friend (actually it's a plaster setting tin for something arty) and I want to...

I'm studying a BA in Secondary Education. My two subjects are Fine Art and Industrial Tech & Design. It was for our first week of questions involving working with sheet metal. I'm a complete beginner...

Bollie, it's an issue for me because it's a question for a uni assessment item.
:)

I just received this email from a family member who I have just discovered works for bluescope. It has some very useful links...

Wonderful. :)

Hugs!

Wow. What a can of worms! You are all wonderful sources of knowledge.
Thank you very much for the time & effort. I'll certainly have a lot to talk about with my lecturer on Monday morning.

I...

I have a beautiful heirloom bowl my neighbor has asked me to fix. It has a large chip on the side. She has all of the pieces. Can anyone recommend me a glue? I'm guessing it should be an epoxy of...

a hairdressing supply place will have in in a variety of dilutions, right up to 50%.

pretty!

I've notice that on all the Australian info I could find, which is why this gauge stuff is proving to be difficult.

thanks wheelinround.

so 0.24mm is 32 gauge?
and 0.45mm is 26 gauge?
not sure if I have it worked out properly.

gaarh

Sheet metal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems clear but thats an American gauge system. do we use the same one?

wiki in this matter appears to be pretty useless.

Hi all, you've probably seen my first few tentative posts.
I'm new to all of this but keen to make a go of it.

I've been asked to explain gauge next week and find out the specific gauge of two...

Shall i tag you as a fellow dr who fan then?

awwww.

plus I've just realised that it's probably illegal to import them and impossible to get one through Australian customs as it would be a concealed weapon. as it's a movie prop I'll be making it...

ooooh. shiney links. Thank you Manuka.

Nadroj I don't mind reinventing it to a point, I would love to work out how to do it myself. A steep learning curve is always fun.

Markjaffa, the only...

I've been asked by a friend to make a very important prop for a short film, a sword hidden in an umbrella. I'm actualy quite new to this whole wood work metal work thing, so does anyone have and...

thats a good one.

"Women in sheds. It's not what you think"
:q

*blushes* aw shucks.

any tips for a second toy project?

my mother used to trade traditional aboriginal carvings, which would be infested with bugs. she's either give it a coat with eucaliptus oil or stick it in a plastic box with a smoldering packet of...

ohh, shiney. thankyou

thanks Phil. I wish i could say it was easy, but so hard. much of the shaping was with a rotary sander. Haven't figured out how to use proper hand tools yet. :)

I have no tools at home. any tips...

Hi zilla, I'm new to all of this as well and also in Brisbane. perhaps we could meet up some time and share a few ideas? I'd recommend a dremmel and maybe a scroll saw? you've inspired me to give it...

beautiful work. I'm new to woodworking. how do you chip carve?

Hi all, I've never done any wood work before. I recently started a BA in education with ITD one of my subjects. Our first assignment was to make a wooden toy. I went for a gorilla with elastic...

I know it's an old post but the sculptures are beautiful, thanks for posting. :)

Hi all,
At 33 I've decided to be a tech teacher. Only problem is I have no skills in the area. (girls weren't allowed in tech when/where I was at school and years of being the "hopeless one" in my...

Hi All, I'm a complete newbie to woodworking.

I've been thinking of making a few small decorative pieces by laminating pencils into a slab then cutting across them to get a variety of patterns...