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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    I got my first carpentry set when I was seven - 41 years ago :eek:
    I believe I'm a semi professional wood turner. This means that I get half the money I should and make stuff which looks less than professional. I bang things together in a squarish fashion from time to time too. Entirely self taught as well, this is instantly recognisable in my work in the way things very rarely fit together.
    I saw the light after some years designing and building gardens. As time progressed, I tended to put more and more wood into the design until I realised that wood was what I wanted to be involved with.
    Somebody previously in this thread, said that there's a solution to every problem in woodwork - I agree; some of my best creations have been born out of solutions to mistakes. I very,very rarely chuck it on the fire.
    That's one of the many attributes which attract us to wood - it can never be perfect and it's always unique;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Paul.C


    Im a carpenter with interests in joinery and custom work. Iv made a lot of nice bits in my time and love the feeling of completing challenging projects ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 550 ✭✭✭earpiece


    Currently a furniture maker based in North Wicklow, do everything from free standing to fitted furniture, and garden furniture ... pretty much anything in wood.
    In a former career I was an electronic engineer.... which brings me to my speciality, high-end Hi-Fi Loudspeakers, which can be seen on www.ckspeakers.com

    Love anything to do with wood, electronics and tools generally!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭RHunce


    Hi, I'm a 1st year Woodwork and Technical Graphics with education student at UL. Studied Woodwork and Construction Studies for my JC and LC respectively, got A's in both of them and yet my practical woodworking skills remain catastrophic. I'm sincerely hoping by the end of the year that I can saw along and up to a line on the piece of wood because it has become ridiculous at this stage, I'm always veering a bit right. I hope to develop my woodworking skills now as a hobby. I've bought myself a work bench, chisels and other tools, planes, marking equipment, tenon and coping saws etc. Here's to the next four years of my degree! Measure twice, cut once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭boatbuilder


    I did that course myself, graduated in the year 2000.
    Its about practice really, but of course you need a certain amount of natural talent as well! One thing that I learned in UL was how to sharpen tools properly...makes a heck of a difference!
    RHunce wrote: »
    Hi, I'm a 1st year Woodwork and Technical Graphics with education student at UL. Studied Woodwork and Construction Studies for my JC and LC respectively, got A's in both of them and yet my practical woodworking skills remain catastrophic. I'm sincerely hoping by the end of the year that I can saw along and up to a line on the piece of wood because it has become ridiculous at this stage, I'm always veering a bit right. I hope to develop my woodworking skills now as a hobby. I've bought myself a work bench, chisels and other tools, planes, marking equipment, tenon and coping saws etc. Here's to the next four years of my degree! Measure twice, cut once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    2 years ago today I got my first lathe. Awesome :)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Decided I needed a hobby, have a big ass garage and used to love doing woodwork in secondary school (nearly 20 years ago).

    I don't know that I'll ever get to the level of some folks here, but just started buying tools recently and my partner bought me a mitre saw, clamps etc for Christmas. She also gave me a 200 to go spend on some wood to build some work benches to use in the garage so I guess that will be my first project.

    I have no expierence with autocad but have started using Googles sketchup after seeing it being used on some other projects on other sites. Its incredibly easy to use so hopefully it should prevent a lot of problems at the start ;)

    I hope to be a semi-regular poster to this board with each project I do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭richiek67


    Hi Kadman,

    I'm into the woodwork for some time now. I started off on model boats and have a fair range and skill on these from sailing to steam tugs. Used to work for a captain oddly enough!! Anyway, I went into the woodwork proper. Like yourself I'm always learning and trying new things. When doing something different it always seem to need a new skill. I find building some of the jigs that takes the longest, whatever about building the piece.
    I was thinking of setting up a yahoo group , what do people think?
    I recently set up a website for some stuff I have made. Some of my projects are simple enough others not!
    My website for anyone interested is www.richardkillianwoodwork.com

    Any examples of the kind of things you have built yourself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Reader1937


    Worked in Brooks for years, enjoyed the softwood and hardwood end of things. Now enjoy working with wood as a hobby - shelves for books in various fashions mostly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭slpower01


    Hi my name is Steven.

    Carpenter + joiner by trade.
    Doing it legit the past 6 years through fas, out of my time the past 2 years and working for myself.
    I have always had a passion for creating stuff though and spent a LOT of my time building skateramps when I was younger.
    I laid my first floor when I was 12 as my dad (a programmer) got half way through it and gave up so I took over from him :P.

    The aspect of the job I like is second fixing but will take on anything non the less.

    I have studied tech drawing and 3d design from online courses and use it in my work quite a lot to design bedroom layouts in 3d etc.

    Its nice to think that we actually have one of the best apprenticeship systems in the world through fas and its very thorough compared to a lot of countries so we should at least be proud of that :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭FirstIn


    Folks, not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes, is there anyone on here that could do some work on a wooden, and about 17ft boat.

    If so could you please pm me. I'm in Greystones wicklow. Thanks S


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 407 ✭✭Noel Kinsella


    I am a painter by trade but got a job "snagging" on sites many years back and developed my carpentry skills from there putting very bad work semi right :-) I would be average skills wise mainly second fix snagging is what I have done. I have had an interest in carpentry since then. My main interest now is garden furniture I flirted with turning ( for a few weeks) bought a really old lathe but have decided its not for me, the lathe is now for sale :-( I am currently making wardrobes for two bedrooms in my house and am enjoying using a Router and Biscuit jointer for the first time. I have several projects for the summer including a boat shaped planter and half barrels (for plants). I have a tried many different things welding, mechanics, jewellery making (gold and silver) etc etc But have a love for carpentry.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23 andypants


    Hello everyone,

    If anyone is interested maybe take a look at my new facebook page: Inwood Furniture Design

    If ya like what ya see will ya "like" my new page if ya can, thanks!

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Inwood-Furniture-Design/147828242042893?fref=ts

    All the best,
    Andy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭Boiled-egg


    Hello all.
    Im a jack of "no" trade.
    Construction manager by qualification. Managing the odd one off build in my spare time. Family business is joinery and that's more or less where I spent my youth. My full time job has absolutely nothing to do with DIY/Building !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭colin29


    Originally from Cork but have been living Vancouver,Canada for the lastsix years, was in engineering in Ireland but decided to change careers when I got Canada, I now am a senior member of staff at a wood shop and honing my skills in my own shop inmy garage.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 darken9


    Howdy LAds
    I love wood and working with it. As a teenager I had a little workshop in the folks shed and I would get power tools for Christmas, the router is still in the shed though it's a bit rusty.
    I had always planned on being a furniture designer but during the DIT course I got dazzled by computer aided design and ended up becoming an architectural visualiser. That I still have a job considering the state of the construction industry in Ireland is a minor miracle but my hours have been cut to a 3 day week and this gets me to the reason I am here.
    The only workspace available to me at the moment is that shed in the folks with no space for any machinery. Before I quit my job and get a fas apprenticeship, if there even are any, I would love to work in a woodshop for these spare two days a week. I would work for free if I though I could learn the skills. Are you ever too old to find a mentor? Even in my late thirties I'm still hoping to find a Mr Miyagi or an Obi Wan. Someone who'd share some of his old Indian tricks.
    So if anyone around the Dublin area thinks I could be of use please drop us a line.
    I should probably start a specific thread for this so I'll leave it here.
    All the best
    Dar


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Took up a bit of wood working when stuck at home with a leg injury and couple of years ago. A birch plywood clock here.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 15 TimmyE


    Hi all, kind of new to boards.. Signed up years ago and forgot I had the account. My names Tim, originaly from Susex in the Uk and now living in Waterford. I grew up on the coast and sailing and was always handy enough, my Dad was an engineer and mechanic as well as keen amateur woodworker and I wound up training as a traditional boat builder. I've been at that on and off for just shy of a decade as well as doing more traditional joinery, timber framing, architectural conservation and various other odds and sods! I'm a bit of a hand tool nut and collector too. Looking forward to getting involved with some of the discussions here.

    Thanks,
    Tim


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    TimmyE wrote: »
    Hi all, kind of new to boards.. Signed up years ago and forgot I had the account. My names Tim, originaly from Susex in the Uk and now living in Waterford. I grew up on the coast and sailing and was always handy enough, my Dad was an engineer and mechanic as well as keen amateur woodworker and I wound up training as a traditional boat builder. I've been at that on and off for just shy of a decade as well as doing more traditional joinery, timber framing, architectural conservation and various other odds and sods! I'm a bit of a hand tool nut and collector too. Looking forward to getting involved with some of the discussions here.

    Thanks,
    Tim

    Welcome Tim, I would love to see some of your projects be it here on the woodcraft or on the boating forum http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=393




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  • Registered Users Posts: 15 TimmyE


    Thanks for the welcome Fergal, I've been lurking for quite some time and have seen a few of your projects, puts the rest of us to shame! - I,ve a couple of things on the go at the moment projects wise. I've slowed down on boats for the winter, the large shed is too cold and wet to work in at this time of year but in progress is the light restoration and re-planking of a Rankin sailing dinghy, another "light" restoration of a 1960's Royal Navy shipyard built Clinker 14 footer (a RNSA 14' or Admiralty 14' for those that are into these things) and a major restoration of a 1930's built Lobster punt from Tarbert Loch Fyne in Scotland. In the small, wood heated workshop, I'm currently playing with my latest toy - a record power CL3 lathe as well as restoring a number of hand tools (some of which may find their way onto adverts in the fullness of time), about to commence a Nicholson-style workbench and have a couple of engineering projects on the go as well - restoring a 1950's "Cylemaster" and a late '40's Humber High Nelly. Plus there's my Series Land Rover. To be sorted! Idle hands and all that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    My name is Ian. Carpenter joiner 10 years now. Father was a builder so grew up on site's busy at the moment so all is good


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i just started into what might become an expensive habit. just tried making my first dovetail joint out of some wood lifted from an old palette; as a result, the next thing on the shopping list is a decent clamp (and after that, a decent workbench). wood is not so easy to work when it's moving. and i suspect is somewhat more risky to your hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭rich.d.berry


    Hi everyone. I'm a hobby woodworker and I like to dabble in a variety of things. I've just started making my own hand tools having just completed a mallet. I'm busy making a rebate/shoulder plane and l also made a marking gauge. On my to do list are some pipe clamps, a wagon vise and, ultimately, a new workbench, perhaps Roubo style with a tool tray but with the deep front apron and front vise instead of a leg vise. The plan is for the wagon vise to fit my new bench as well.

    I also like to restore vintage tools having recently completed a Bailey pattern plane, a hand brace and a number of chisels.

    I own a good selection of power tools (table saw, planer/thicknesser, mitre/chop saw, routers, etc.) but, because my workshop is in the attic of an apartment block, they are too antisocial, that's why I'm going the hand tool route. I'm finding it very satisfying though, especially since I've dusted off and restored a number of hand tools that I inherited from my father. I feel a real connection when I use the same tools he did, and I now treasure them for the memories and emotions they evoke.

    I've even managed to keep the wife happy by making shoe racks and shelves and fitting wardrobes in the new apartment we moved into in March, having downsized from a 3 bed house now that our nest is empty. Needless to say, she has a list of jobs lined up for me as well, but I enjoy doing them, so no complaints, it's just finding the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭imakebiodiesel


    Hi, wood work has been my passion for 40 years although Ive made my living in several other ways.
    I love wood turning and do all my spindle turning on a pole lathe I built 25 years ago. I have an electric lathe as well but I use it only for larger work and faceplate work.
    I make country furniture, dressers,settle chairs tables etc. I also taught myself the craft of the white cooper a few years ago and make piggins, noggins buckets and churns. Its a fascinating craft but has no commercial potential except occassional jobs for museums etc, I did the coopering for the Dunbrody sailing ship at New Ross.
    Although I have a good selection of woodworking machinery I prefer hand tools and since Im doing it for my own pleasure I like to take my time. As some one once said... " machine tools may be the muscle of the modern workshop but hand tools are its heart and soul."


  • Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭Poloman


    Signing in.

    Newbie. Moving home which has a large attached garage and I want to set up a little woodwork shop to do hobbies/possibly sell things when done. I got my first table saw today and they have kindly agreed to keep it until I move home.

    I love the Samurai Carpenter on youtube and will be making his workbench when I have the confidence after a number of smaller projects to practice. :eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭randomname2005


    Hi all, just checking in. Have been tinkering with wood for years, with no formal training, but enjoy making bits and pieces and learning from mistakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭ShauntaMetzel


    Carpenting is a lovely thing. I am not a professional but when it comes to transform the look of a wooden furniture, I always offer my services to my family. Yes, it was not easy in the beginning but thankful to YouTube toturials and woodcrafting communities. They helped a lot. I still need to learn several things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 BackInTown


    Have been following threads here for a while and posted a couple of times, but never introduced myself. Moved home to Dublin after a long time abroad, and finally have a shed, even if it is small and full of kids bikes. Long time DIY enthusiast trying to make a bit of furniture. Love the variety, beauty and practicality possible in woodwork.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    what part of dublin? if you're interested in woodturning, there are three chapters who meet monthly (usually!) based in santry, dublin 15, and out terenure direction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 BackInTown


    what part of dublin? if you're interested in woodturning, there are three chapters who meet monthly (usually!) based in santry, dublin 15, and out terenure direction.
    Thanks @magicbastarder - I'm in Dublin 15 - and just before all this covid stuff started I had looked at the guild website (after reading information here) and noticed the D15 chapter. When meetings get back up and running again I'll be sure to get involved.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Crazyivan 1979


    Hi all,
    Amateur hobbyist here. When I moved to rural wicklow 4 years the house came with a medium sized concrete out house, which was plumbed and electric wired (previous owners had it as a salon). So i've turned it into a workshop, i have never done woodwork in my life, so learning as I go.

    Have filled it with an assortment of power tools (mitre saws, bench drills, dremel, circ saws) make a few small bits and bobs. I think the biggest Ive done is the picnic bench for the garden.

    So looking to experiment with different woods and techniques and get advise from the more experienced chaps here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭chillyspoon


    I've been woodworking to various degrees since I was a child. Both of my grandfathers were professional craftsmen and while my Dad was a civil servant for his career, woodwork was his primary hobby, making everything from furniture to clinker built boats so that's the environment I was immersed in. After school I took a major hiatus from woodworking for the guts of 20 years as I lived in apartments with no workshop options and did nothing more than trivial DIY so creativity turned to music and hi-tech stuff for those years.

    When my wife and I also moved to rural(ish!) Wicklow a few years back, I was finally able to put together a workshop and start making things again. It has amazed me how I've been reset to absolute zero on some skills; e.g. I just couldn't saw a straight line for about a year and I'm still struggling with accuracy in basic joinery but have somehow I've retained others; apparently I can still woodturn pretty well!

    My goal is to improve the quality of what I'm producing to make some nice furniture for our house and extended family etc.

    Oh, and I quickly found out that I still hate sanding - no change there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,049 ✭✭✭cletus


    I didn't post in here initially, as I've been on boards since 2004.

    I'm a PE and English teacher. I've always liked working with my hands, and I like trying new things and acquiring new skills. Woodwork is one of a variety of hobbies I have, which means I'm less good than I could be (or just plain poor :D)

    On the plus side, working in a school gives me access to both the woodwork and metalwork rooms, so that I can be bad at two of my hobbies


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,167 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    BackInTown wrote: »
    Thanks @magicbastarder - I'm in Dublin 15 - and just before all this covid stuff started I had looked at the guild website (after reading information here) and noticed the D15 chapter. When meetings get back up and running again I'll be sure to get involved.
    there's also evening classes in D15 - in hartstown - starting september and january. when i did it, it was €125 for ten 2 hour classes, well worth the money. also did a basic woodworking course there.

    or if you can't wait till september (and based on when these restrictions lift) joe laird will do one on one or small classes out of his place, i'd recommend him. a day with him would easily cost more than the 10 evening classes, though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭brane.nikic87


    I'we been on this forum for quite some time but never introduced myself.

    I am a Draughtsman / CAD designer & IT manager by profession and I am hobby (Is it still considered hobby if you do it every day for 2-3h at least? :D ) woodworker based in Limerick.

    I liked working with wood since I was a child but only in the last few years I managed to afford some tools and machines to my self.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 KMCE


    New to the forum, but working for some time with wood.

    An engineer by profession and currently work in the energy and sustainability sphere, but have always had a keen interest in woodworking.

    Have made many projects over the years both for my own house, and private commissions, so kinda do this semi professionally. Alas, I am aware that the craft of woodworking or cabinetry is considerably undervalued so I must continue with the engineering to make ends meet.

    I have huge respect for those who practice the craft professionally and put themselves out there at the whims of clients.


    All for now, hopefully I can show some of what I have done, and am doing in future posts.

    Regards,

    Ken



  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭The_Scary_Man


    Hi All,

    Hobby woodworker here all, woodturning and making wood and resin bits.

    I started carving spoons a few years ago as a mindfulness practice to deal with stress. I made some stuff for my sister's wedding that I got a lot of good feedback on so I started getting more interested and pushing myself a bit more.

    Now I have a shed full of gear, a long wishlist, no money and no space 😁

    Cheers,

    Ken



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