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  • 20-03-2005 5:16pm
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    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


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    Who you are, what area of wood work you are in, what interests you have relative to wood work, and novice or professional,

    Kadman :)

    Some of you already know me and my background, but for those that dont.

    I am a qualified carpenter joiner of 25 years +. Woodturning and carving for about 20 years on and off, cabinet making and advanced architectural joinery, about the same. Got involved in wood work from a very early age , thanks to my dad who was a furniture maker. Cad certified in Autocad, Rcs Timberframe Cad, Strucad and a Member of The Institute of Carpenters , England, So wood is in my blood really, I've been around the block, but I'm still learning. Very interested in collecting old woodworking tools and old woodworking books. So if you need any traditional methods of woodworking, chances are I would have the reference books for it , some dating back 180 years.

    Any way , thats me , sorry for rambling on.

    kadman :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    Hi, I have a very stong interest in Joinery. Wardrobes, tables etc. I have made a lot of nice stuff in my time! My woodwork teacher used to always make an example of my woodwork skills in school! I was the only first year ever allowed to use all the machinery in the woodwork room. The planer / thicknesser, the panel saw everything! I made a tv remote control holder for my Junior Cert and I bend it in the shape of a 'S' Its a very nice project that incorporated electronics and everything!


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hi Galwaydude,

    Are you working with timber at the moment, or college or something else ?

    kadman :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    Im in college studying electronics and computer engineering in Athlone IT! Fcukn hate it but im going to stick at it till I get my diploma! I have six years experience in AutoCAD as well. I have spent four of thoses years working in an Architects office drawing plans of houses, garages, site maps, taking levels etc. Il throw up a photo or two in a bit of my favourite pieces of furniture that I have made in the past in school! I remember my Junior Cert woodwork exam. For some reason I thought it was on in the afternoon and a got a phone call from the school at 10 to 10 that morning to tell me to get in quick as the woodwork exam was on! Holy crap I was an hour late for it and still got the 'A' in honours! I was very happy about that!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    I'm a 20 year old 2nd year apprentice carpenter currently looking to be taken back on after taking some time out due to personal commitments.

    I like the fine detail work, I like to spend time at my work and make it the best I can. When I am qualified I would like to go out on my own and do specialist work. I would like to work with hand carvings and incorporate that into carpentry, a hand carved stairway rail for example.

    I also did the remote control holder for the Junior Cert, unfortunately my school didn't do woodwork past 3rd year so I had to stop it then. I got a B in higher level woodwork for the Junior Cert, I suspect my downfall was the theory as we were not educated well in that. Woodwork was by far, my favoured subject in school. That and Art when I took it up after 3rd year.

    I come from a creative family of poets, painters, sculpters, interior designers and allot more. The work that would suit me would be highly creative work. I like to use my imagination, not just cut required sizes by formula (rise run span etc).

    I have a dream of having a little workshop somewhere in the South of France working in the shining sun with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice from my home grown orange tree :rolleyes: Unfortunately I chose to do German instead of French in school :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Utter novice here, I have done some woodturning classes and was very
    happy with the process and what I achieve.
    So I am looking to learn more and do more.
    So i may as what seems to be a lot of silly questions but convent school
    did have woodworking as an option back in the day.


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hi Galwaydude,

    Well autocad experience is definitely a big plus, if your into furniture / joinery design , gives you an opportunity to develop your constructional details , and get a 3d rendered image of your conceptual design.

    Some good timber / cabinet/ stairmaking 3d modelling software packages out there as well, cabinet vision, stairbitz ect.

    Hi Cormie,

    Well your artistic family abilities seem to be in abundance there, and no doubt if you choose to go into fine detailed carving work, and persevere, you'll follow in their footsteps. Commitment to do well in your craft is the first step, and then plenty of practice to perfect it.

    Hi Thaed,

    Woodturning , I think, has to be the most addictive form of wood work there is. I guarantee that once you start, you will never give it up. It can be learned by young and old, novice and professional wood workers, and ablebodied, and disabled. Anyone can do it.

    Hopefully we,ll al learn something from each other here, after all we're all newbies on this forum. :)

    kadman :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    What do you guys think of these? The first one is my Honours construction project! The second one it my Junior Cert project! :D:) I love these pieces of furniture!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    This should probably go in a new thread, but how did you bend the wood to make the S? nice:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    I made a former out of solid lime wood! Took the best part of two months of planing it on the planer thicknesser, cutting the curve on the bandsaw, glueing and screwing each layer together, sanding it and shaping it with a spokeshave! I then made a 2.4m by .15m steam box out of 19mm plywood. I steamed each layer of the 3mm oak veneered plywood for a couple of hours! I had to drill holes in the former so that I could place scrap wood around it to hold the plywood in place while I bent it and the steam dried out of the ply! It was a very difficult job as we didnt have any vacuum formers in school at the time and they still dont! I was so happy with that project! Its the most completed project ever undertaken in the school at the Junior Cert level and man did I deserve the A I got for my exam! I have a very good understanding of the theory of woodwork and an even better understanding of the pratical side of things!


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 1,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭karltimber


    I am a hobby woodturner, and am turning now for about 6 years.
    Never did any courses, but just bought a lathe and started.

    Upgraded to a Poolewood 2hp lathe (beast !!) last year with a new shed (aka studio) - and am very happy just making salad bowls from spalted beech/ash and lamps/platters(20") from Yew- which is my favourite wood.

    I plank my own timber with a chain-saw mill with a 3 foot bar -well recommended and have a butchers bandsaw with a 18" depth of cut -another good buy.

    Would like to make some furniture eventually but I am only mid-30's so plenty of time for that yet.

    thats me so far.

    karl. :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Unfortunately I am not too familiar with terms and even wood types. Could you explain what a former and the likes are? Could you show me an example of the type of woods you started with (size/shape etc). And how did you make the steamer??!! Sounds great:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    A former is a replica of the shape you want in the end! In my case I wanted each half to have two flat areas and a semi circle. The former had a flat spot top and bottom and a semi circle on one end! Also the former was the same width as the ply I cut and bent! Where are you based? Are from Co. Galway? I started off with scrap skirting board and the likes that my dad used to bring home from work when he would be labouring out on sites! I read a lot of woodwork book, watched a lot of woodworking programes and practiced a lot of different joints! Its very important to be able to do most joints by hand first before you use any machinery! I was making joints at the age of 8! I have very good marking out skills! Always keep your try square on the face side and face edge at all time when marking out timber and you should have no trouble like like lines not meeting up when you go around all four sides of the timber if you didnt to that!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    Cormie have a look at theses two website to get an idea of steambending!

    http://www.megspace.com/lifestyles/njmarine/Steam.html

    http://www.allwoodwork.com/article/woodwork/methods_of_bending_wood.htm

    [edit] also this one http://www.megspace.com/lifestyles/njmarine/mold.html [/edit]

    They appear to be fairly good at a quick glance of them!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Thanks for that, looks basic enough!

    I have way too much on my mind at the moment, I don't feel I can take on any more, I have to sort out poker.ie and then I will hopefully get back in the swing of things regarding the oul wood:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    grand job! Let me know if you need any more info on this! Just out of pure luck there was a whole question on this when I did my woodwork exam for the aul Junior Cert!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    cool, what age are you anyway? We both did the remote holder, I'm 20..


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    im 21! Started school a year late as the aul pair were building an extension to the house we are in at the present moment! Their seperated now though!


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Just a thought here guys,

    This thread is just a general who' who, so we can all get to know each other.

    Its probably easier for everyone , if you have question on a particular area of wood work, say, woodturning, steambending, carving or whatever. Start a new thread under a heading, and that way everyone can see each seperate topic or project, that they may like to add too.

    Otherwise if we start discussing various things in this first thread, it will be like looking for a needle in a hay stack :)

    kadman :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    :rolleyes: join the club. We obviously did the JC same year then:) I need more experience with these things. I don't have the resources, money or time unfortunately :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    yip that is definelty a good idea alright! I have lots of info that i can share about my experience in steambending etc.!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,788 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Yeah! haha, Kadman you should probably delete all the off topic posts myself and Galwaydude18 have been rambling on with. Everyone who goes to the woodcraft who's who will see our ages and that we have split up parents, it's not that kind of who's who I don't think :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    cormie wrote:
    Yeah! haha, Kadman you should probably delete all the off topic posts myself and Galwaydude18 have been rambling on with. Everyone who goes to the woodcraft who's who will see our ages and that we have split up parents, it's not that kind of who's who I don't think :rolleyes:

    Galwaydude and Cormie,

    Its to early to start wielding a big stick, any way I might get a bit of turning from it, Glad to see you're at home here.

    kadman ;)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,357 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Have basically no wood work experience but I'm really interested in the luthier side of things, especially guitars and bass.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭galwaydude18


    kadman wrote:
    Galwaydude and Cormie,

    Its to early to start wielding a big stick, any way I might get a bit of turning from it, Glad to see you're at home here.

    kadman ;)

    Thanks Kadman! Were well at home here! Have settled in very well into these comfortable surroundings! HAHA! :D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,404 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I'm a hobby woodturner, only started really about 9 months or so ago, but have already filled all available shelves and empty spaces in the house with bits and pieces :) Have a Nova 3000 lathe and am extremely jealous of kadman's Poolewood! I sell a few pieces now and then, but I'm still out of pocket on the deal, but what the hell.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Alun wrote:
    I'm a hobby woodturner, only started really about 9 months or so ago, but have already filled all available shelves and empty spaces in the house with bits and pieces :) Have a Nova 3000 lathe and am extremely jealous of kadman's Poolewood! I sell a few pieces now and then, but I'm still out of pocket on the deal, but what the hell.

    I think your talking about Karl's Poolewood, not mine Alun.
    I'm still using my 25 year old Luna.

    kadman :)


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 1,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭karltimber


    Have you a pic of your lathe Kadman.

    Is it one with a solid 2"/3" bar down the centre or a heavy cast one...

    love looking at old machinery --- doing just as good a job as new stuff.


    karl.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hi Karl,

    It was originally a 2" double box iron frame, for a bench mount setup.
    I used to do a lot of natural edge bowls, and was unhappy with the amount of vibration.
    So I took of the head and tailstock, and remounted them on a 2M length of 768mm wide universal column. No vibration now ha ha.

    I'll organise a picture as soon as I can.

    kadman :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭sexy darren


    im a 3rd year capenter love wood and working whit it is grate i need to learn more coz the work iim doing now is crap sheeting out froors whit ply theres only 1 fella in the cumpeny who teaches me all the rest are on price hungry fecs have no time for me do u think i should leave or stick it out till im qalified
    i don metle work in school thay woodent let me do woodwork then when i left school i don a corse to be a mecanic then i got a chanc to do carpentry and i grabed it i love learning about building and how tings work i just love learning so if ya need an aprentis whit own tool and trasport get in tuch im in dublin thanks
    :p


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    Hi Darren, welcome aboard .

    Dont be put of by your work conditions, unfortunately too many apprentices are treated in the same fashion as you. Deadlines and targets, sometimes do not allow an employer to devote the time he should to his younger apprentice craftsmen, sign of the times I'm afraid.

    Any way, if you want to learn about woodwork, there are all sorts of woodworkers here that will be only to willing to help you. This forum was started by people who have fondness for working with wood, and if you want to learn , stick around.

    Any thing you need to know, start a new thread , and you'll get your answer.

    kadman :)


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