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Hi bob,
Have just been reading through some of the suggestions from other members for your trip to Tassie. All of the places listed are excellent,however you are going to run short of time...

Hello Fred, Mike, Fred n, and others out there,
Sorry I haven't been around for a while, but everything seems to be coming along OK at present. Finally I have got my PSA reading down to 62 (was...

Hello Ben, ........... and others,
I have just returned to the internet after two weeks in bed, and it's good to hear your news regarding your health...

Just a quick Thank You to: John, Neil, Jim, Ben and Bob, for your good wishes, it certainly helps when there is someone out there who understands. I am the sort of person that can't sit still for 2...

Hi fellas,
just had a visit from my Doctor,and the result of my bloodtest last Thursday was excellent, I have dropped down to 780 from 1032 four weeks ago,It has taken a long time and a...

Hi Ben,
Good news, just take it easy. I go for my Chemo again on Wednesday,I had a blood test yesterday so I am hoping that the count has finally come down further. I was a 1032 four weeks...

A spindle moulder is without doubt one of the handiest machines you can have in your workshop. Granted in the wrong hands can be a very dangerous machine, however nowadays with moulding heads and...

Hi Neil,
Received hat (and pen), Wednesday morning. An excellent hat, very sturdy compaired to some that are around. Will look great covered in woodchips starting this weekend.

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As of approximately two years ago, the arrangement of building a shed up tp 10 sq.metres was abolished. Irrespective of the size of your outbuilding/shed it will cost you.Most shires have a minimum...

Looks good Dan,
I have not tried to turn Huon Pine, but it looks as though it would be a breeze. I got in touch with Australian furniture Timbers (AFT), in Port Melbourne...

Hi Ben,
The cancer that I have is prostate with a PSA reading of 1966( should be 4), and bone cancer to 95% of my bones, fortunately my other organs are all clear. (I have written a thread...

Hi Toni,
An unusual request, but not a difficult one. I remember back in my Tech teaching days, the teacher who ran the machine shop area used to do alot of powder coating with the...

Since being diagnosed with cancer approx 6 months ago, I was also told to back-off on everything that I used to do in the workshop for the first 4 or so months, until my condition improved. At that...

I have enjoyed reading all the above, so now I had better add my few details.
Left school at 16, and started a Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship with a local building firm.Ended up building...

Wood Butcher,
Pleased to hear all is well again, this has to be a worry to all parents during the early years, you can not anticipate their actions, they seem to be happy and...

Thanks Steve, much appreciated by all on the forum
Kind Regards,
Ron.

OK, I take it you are doing a year 10 or 11 assignment at one of the Secondary Schools, when is it due for assesment, and how much of the above do you really need, regarding the Statement of intenet...

I can see why you were concerned, very important to get those wheels covered as it is easy to get the top wheel out of alignment vertically, and thats when the blade starts to walk out to meet you....

Like many of the replies above, I have seen several blades break whilst I have been using the Bandsaw; all but once the blades keep slithering uaround the wheels and eventually drop to the bottom of...

Hello John,

Pen Blanks arrived in the mail today, all safe and sound.
A good selection of timbers, will turn up nicely. Camphor OK,
By some of the comments I...

Hi Robyn,
I like those boxes, you are progressing very well indeed, I used to teach hobby woodwork classes in the tech system a few years ago, mainly men, but did have three women in...

Hello devil 121,

Thanks for your message,re the Woodrat, but I have already purchased one a few weeks ago.
Thanks again,

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Hi DJ,
Just sent you a PM re the pen blanks.
Thanks for undertaking this job.

Regards,
Ron.

Hi Rob,
I wouldn't be knocking your veneering, it looks great, not the easiest thing in the world to do, especially the pattern you have chosen there. The last time I saw inlaid work of...

Clinton,
I have a 12" Carba-tec buzzer and it is excellent. Hard to justify the price though like you said. I also have a 6" machine that I use for smaller jobs.
I had an Artisan combo for...

Hi Robyn, and welcome to the woodwork forum. I am sure you will enjoy some of the items that appear on here and some of the comments that accompany them from our members.
All the Best,
...

Hi Andy,
I purchased the Vicmarc VL300EVCM-long bed, approx four - five months ago from Carba-tec, an excellent lathe, would not swap for another brand. I cannot comment about the stubby,...

Hi DJ,
Count me in if you have a few spares, postage certainly
no problem, this is an excellent way to sort it out
Thanks, Cheers, Ron.

Hello Cabinet Girl, and welcome to the forum. It' great to see some new girls joining our group, especially since we have several girls on board already. I have just spent the last half hour reading...

Congratulations , on what appears to have been a great weekend. I am
very sorry I missed being there and also on meeting some of the members of the forum, but hopefully there will be a next...

DO WE MEN TAKE ENOUGH CARE ? PART 2
I continued on with this thread at the original thread, starting at #24, in other words I stuffed up and forgot to make a new thread, so those of you that are...

Big Shed & Fred.n,
Fred & Fred,
Thanks fellas for your kind remarks and best wishes, It's a matter of hanging in there I think, pretty hard to do sometimes. Your comments...

Hi,
Having written a thread on Cancer problems a few weeks back, and also had
over 800 members view the thread, and several replies along with many showing interest as to 'it's time they went...

Woodlee,
As other members of the forum have said this is one of the topics that has been discussed many times, and everyone has there own idea as to which is the most satisfactory for...

Pat and sheddy,
I agree for the condition of the 8c it is too expensive. I have three 8c's, 1 Stanley and 2 records's, allin A1 condition. When I ws an apprentice way back in...

Hi Stu,
This is a strange one, not really an arch as arches go, however there
must be something holding it up. I would tend to go two courses above and cut the course out and extend the...

Michael,
Having made hundreds of doors, both flush panel with bolection moulds and framed doors with glass panels etc during my years in the joinery shop, there is no way that I would...

The things that I hate the most, would have to be these 'drivers' at night time that come towards you with driving lights as well as headlights and sidelights glaring at you. I had a talk to a...

Bumnut,
Where have I heard that remark before?
Built the house almost thirty years ago, spent about 2 years at weekends and occassional afternoon through the week, however...

Hi,
I purchased the latest metal detector from Carba-tec about three weeks ago, They are on special at the moment and are advertised in the latest 'Australian Woodworker' #54, which arrived in...

Well Gumby 'ol chum',
May I suggest you get into your car and come for a drive and possibly stay in the bush up our way for awhile, last night we had 29mm,
a couple of...

Hi Sheddie,
great list of tools there, can never have too many ! just don't ask me for a list of mine, it would take all night to type them and would use about 50 pages of screen...

Tassie Kiwi,
Yes I do remember seeing the kombi, my mate from Numurkah in Victoria has and Orange one and it was that that drew mat attention to yours.
If I remember rightly at port...

Gra,
Another thread sounds good, its surprising how things get along, we are up to 25 threads here tonigh and its proved very interesting, I'm sure Sheddie won't be upset at all. Just briefly...

The Driver,
Bugatti of course..................... now that is a car.
Did you see, by some chance the programme on tele the other night,from overseas, 'TOP GEAR', where...

Hi Gra,
Back again, that's interesting about Dodge involvement, I never really studied that. Without being sarcastic, when you own a Jag you step down into them, when you own a rolls you...

Wassy,
A few ideas thrown around, the main thing is to keep them flat, don't get a twist in them especially the roof trusses. The walls are fairly easy to stack on top of one another,...

Tony,
I remember when I was going to primary school, a teacher from the tech school, was restoring an alvis, just up the end of our street. I have never seen one since that day, they were a...

Hi Gra,
Sorry, I read that you were into Jaguars and not Rileys and was thinking about PTC'c comments when I replied.
Was born in Stawell, and spent all my life here except for...

Gra,
Interesting to see you like Rileys and Graham Paige's, both excellent old cars, next door neighbour had a 1928 graham Paige when I was a kid, about 1928 model. and friends of the family...