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Thanks for the inspiration! I'm getting ready for my first attempt at draw bore M&T's in a drill press cabinet, tassie oak pegs too. Thanks for the heads up on the 3/32 offset. It's looking to be as...

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Here's the letters I made for my recent wedding (and the ring box too, but that's for a different post).
The scroll saw was out of commission at the time, so I made it on the bandsaw with a...

I think once you've moved past 'New Member' status you should be known as 'Hoarder of Chisels'

Here's something I discovered while trawling around on SBS, Madagascan natives building houses that last for a century with nothing but timber, their beautiful work certainly makes me as a carpenter...

Well done, that looks fantastic! Simple and effective, inspiring for another beginner.
I think the balsa was a great choice, the light colouring will look great on a desk. Sure, the more figured...

Thats the way, Chook! My no.7 is almost finished being restored (I'd say fettled but I'm not that good yet), so I'm feeling inspired now. Restoring/sharpening/polishing my vintage finds is a great...

Very nice! I remember spending most of my early childhood working on things, so it's good to hear there's other kids being given a start and spending some quality time with parent(s).
Now all you...

Interesting, I am curious as to where you found one of these? I don't expect you to devulge these sorts of thing quickly, it pays to keep one's cards close to one's chest when rare things surface,...

Interesting looking boxes :2tsup:
Any chance of a pic of the two boxes side by side for some constrast and scale? Maybe a pic without the flash (may require some sort of rest to steady the camera)...

I'll be there on Saturday, soon as it opens. I'll be (one of) the young bloke(s) looking like a kid in a candy shop! A very expensive candy shop...
Last years show was when I went from being a...

:o I wants it!! Wonder when/where that was available? Has Chris made many other planes to sell? I'd buy that over a Norris/Spiers infill, had I that sort of play money currently.
I am a big fan of...

What are you wanting to use them for? I have some Fat Max chisels as general carpentry chisels, they are ok and don't chip easy, but they refuse a keen edge and dull to a certain point quickly. They...

The bigger ones in Sydney stock Stanleys, occasionally the curved base model too. Though I'm holding out for a flea market find, or one of better quality.
They are normally in the same isle as the...

I picked up a nice little user off Evilbay for $75 about a month ago. Sometimes they go for silly money, bedrock or not, but there are occasionally a couple that seem to fly under the radar, I just...

Beautiful WW! Glad to see the history and beauty of Yew lives on, it's a shame that so much knowledge of the furniture that inspires us has been lost over time. Not so here, thankfully.
Making a Yew...

Love the idea. We often see the raw stock and the beautiful work it's turned into, but rarely the tools used to do so, and that's half the story!

My 2 bob:
I went with the Panasonic 14.4, admittedly a few years ago now when the Li tech was brand new. I do a lot of fitting out and the small size helps for getting into smaller spaces while it's...

Looking good! I'll be watching this one with interest, there has been several 'hints' dropped of late.

Is this just for general knowledge or do you have a specific job in mind?
I've never seen a chart for this but I know which size goes with which colour in the Ramset range (I use wall plugs almost...

Should this be moved to Power Tools, or perhaps Unpowered Tools? :roll:

Olive sure makes for lovely handles. I've been thinking about making a cap iron driver for some time now (the correct size is always buried in the tool box when I want it), but I haven't had a clue...

Great job!! I think it's a fitting place for such a massive blade, although I was wondering if it'd end up in a York Pitch scrub plane.
Beautiful work on the plane itself, especially using reclaimed...

Looks real neat, great work. I like the resourcefulness of using the spare iron too.
Keep up the good work!

Woah....
See what you've gone and done there is successfully ruined the rest of my work day while I contemplate the magnificence of this and lust after it's contents.
Lots of good ideas in there, a...

That looks great. I like the clean, simple design. Nice without being complicated.
Surely your wife can forgive the delay for a present like that!

Inspiring stuff!! I'd love to be able to make something like this, a four-poster with canopy is one of the projects down the line.
I know a few neo-gothic inspired houses in Sydney that that would...

While not being particularly experienced in this sort of thing, I have made a curved window at Tafe, try looking up plans for that. We took 400mm lengths of 90x45 pine and cut them into curves (so...

Mmm... LAJ... That'll be my next purchase (some saving required first). With a LAJ and a few fettled old Stanleys (3, 4 1/2, 5, 7) that should be bench planes covered. I'd be looking at...

Nice handles! I'm hoping to make some Olive wood handles for some paring chisels that have odds and ends for handles currently, I seem to have found my inspiration now!

Another great piece coming along nicely. The Black Japan gives it a Black Walnut look to my untrained eyes, it'd be interesting to see it in real life. Very glad to see that the grain is still...

Sydney flooring has a couple of lengths, buried pretty deep they'll do the job. Thanks for the advice on getting a wider board, I'll see if they've got one there as well. Pays to be prepared, right?

Anyone know where to get Turpentine floors boards in Sydney? I have to replace a board for a client, who originally bought it all at auction.
I only need 1/2.7x19 EC 80mm. All the places I've called...

I do this one all the time: I use a 600mm level to project lines up the cornice, then cut with a plaster saw (one of the little dagger style ones), cut the top and bottom with a Stanley knife then...

Nice work, that plane looks like a geat user. What kind of auction was that though/ I've never seen anything like that go under the hammer on this side of the country, it's normally propping the door...

Thanks for the warm welcome, all. This place is proving to have a great wealth of knowledge! I look forward to gleaning and contributing all I can.

Being a car nut, tradesman and budding woodie I have issues with tool storage too. Then there the parts/timber and bric-a-brac that accumulates.
Space isn't so much the issue as accessablity. After...

Nice work, beautiful timber selection and grain arrangment.

G'day all,
My name is Ben, I'm a young Sydney local just getting into things. Well that's not strictly true, I am a carpenter by trade, but I have been only just recently getting into the finer side...