Pachinko_ wrote:I made a Benjamin Franklin chair/ladderSpoiler:
You do beautiful work!
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Pachinko_ wrote:I made a Benjamin Franklin chair/ladderSpoiler:
trwi7 wrote:Will be practicing my best Australian accent for tomorrow.
"Hey ya wankers. I graduated from Aranmore back in 2010 and lost me yearbook. Is there any way you didgeridoos can send anotha yearbook me way?"
Finn wrote:You make stuff. I make crap. Functional, but crap.
Jez2983 wrote:That stuff is rad. My son and I have sanded some reclaimed.pieces of huon back. We'll oil them and then have 2 nicer chopping boards than we have!
Pachinko_ wrote:Jez2983 wrote:That stuff is rad. My son and I have sanded some reclaimed.pieces of huon back. We'll oil them and then have 2 nicer chopping boards than we have!
huon back... as in huon pine maybe? This stuff is expensive, and my favourite material of all. That scent
trwi7 wrote:Will be practicing my best Australian accent for tomorrow.
"Hey ya wankers. I graduated from Aranmore back in 2010 and lost me yearbook. Is there any way you didgeridoos can send anotha yearbook me way?"
Jez2983 wrote:Pachinko_ wrote:Jez2983 wrote:That stuff is rad. My son and I have sanded some reclaimed.pieces of huon back. We'll oil them and then have 2 nicer chopping boards than we have!
huon back... as in huon pine maybe? This stuff is expensive, and my favourite material of all. That scent
My crap typing. I meant we have a couple of pieces of huon pine we have sanded back. It's expensive but takes hundreds of years to get to a harvestable size.
My son has a bag of huon shavings he loves to smell
That is the nice thing about woodworking. You just have to be willing to start and have lots of patience.Pachinko_ wrote:Finn wrote:You make stuff. I make crap. Functional, but crap.
Ah, nah. This is just the showcase items, the tip of the iceberg. If I could only show you all the failures
Listen, seriously, if you really like it you can do it for sure. I know nothing, I'm a bean counter who works in front of a computer 10 hours a day. I started 35 years old with no previous knowledge and no background whatsoever, at some point and for no particular reason I just got sucked in watching youtube videos late at night. The same 5 guys that everybody watches, Jimmy Diresta, John Heisz, Matthias Wandel etc. Then I bought a drill LOL. And then it kinda snowballed from there. It really takes nothing man, just love.
Pachinko_ wrote:Jez2983 wrote:Pachinko_ wrote:huon back... as in huon pine maybe? This stuff is expensive, and my favourite material of all. That scent
My crap typing. I meant we have a couple of pieces of huon pine we have sanded back. It's expensive but takes hundreds of years to get to a harvestable size.
My son has a bag of huon shavings he loves to smell
Thousands of years actually, huon pine is the oldest living thing in the world, some trees are estimated to be over 2,000 years old.
It's actually forbidden to harvest it these days. It's possibly the best timber for woodworking because it's so full of natural oils that it's impervious to all kinds of bugs and practically water proof, that's why it was incredibly popular for boat building. And it's famous for how easy and pleasant it is to work with it, and it looks great when finished.
Then they stopped harvesting it decades ago (in the 70's I think?) when they realised it's not a good idea to kill trees that take thousands of years to grow. Last time they cut some was when they absolutely had to to build a dam, and those logs are still floating on a lake in Tasmania. The Govt has taken control of them and releases them to the market few at the time, and nobody is allowed to buy it in large quantities. That's the last stock of harvested huon pine and is estimated to last us a few more decades at this rate.
Tell your son to smell while he can
trwi7 wrote:Will be practicing my best Australian accent for tomorrow.
"Hey ya wankers. I graduated from Aranmore back in 2010 and lost me yearbook. Is there any way you didgeridoos can send anotha yearbook me way?"