glennkilshaw10
Member
Hi all, thanks for acceptance into your community and as requested here a bit about me and my reasons for joining.
I'm in my 50's with a young son. I've been a " bodger " all my life but my lad has shown an interest in making things from wood after watching me bodge the canopy over my back door.
So, the decision was made to learn together and have watched hours and hours of YouTube videos but always prefer to simply read forums as no matter what my problem it's more than likely somebody else has experienced ut before.
I've set aside a budget each month and purchased a few basic items , mitre saw, table saw, jig saw chisels rules etc...all of which will come in for future bodging if neither of us take to it.
I'm in quite a fortunate situation where I can source plenty of timber to practice on as we import huge machinery at work and currently skip the crates that stuff arrives in and while it's not quality hardwood it's all new decent (ish) which is ideal for practicing with. My lad of course has seen people allegedly making £20k tables from old pallets so needs re-educating slowly...we need to learn to cut straight and join to bits together before we recreate masterpieces.
1st job is a workbench , so really joined to allow me to browse what others have done, holding down work is clearly something to work out, whether the bench surface is drilled for dogs, 1 vice? 2 vices? T section rail with clamps or simply a selection of clamps...from the bench I've fencing that needs sorting and maybe cupboards to hide the various selection of wheelie bins..all of which I can source the timber for free.
I'll leave it there, I'll use the search function to ensure I don't ask questions that are readily available. My intention is to initially work on different types of joint as a learning curve. So for now I'll simply lurk and look at work the " non bodgers " have posted so I might teach my lad to not follow in my bodging footsteps !!
I'm in my 50's with a young son. I've been a " bodger " all my life but my lad has shown an interest in making things from wood after watching me bodge the canopy over my back door.
So, the decision was made to learn together and have watched hours and hours of YouTube videos but always prefer to simply read forums as no matter what my problem it's more than likely somebody else has experienced ut before.
I've set aside a budget each month and purchased a few basic items , mitre saw, table saw, jig saw chisels rules etc...all of which will come in for future bodging if neither of us take to it.
I'm in quite a fortunate situation where I can source plenty of timber to practice on as we import huge machinery at work and currently skip the crates that stuff arrives in and while it's not quality hardwood it's all new decent (ish) which is ideal for practicing with. My lad of course has seen people allegedly making £20k tables from old pallets so needs re-educating slowly...we need to learn to cut straight and join to bits together before we recreate masterpieces.
1st job is a workbench , so really joined to allow me to browse what others have done, holding down work is clearly something to work out, whether the bench surface is drilled for dogs, 1 vice? 2 vices? T section rail with clamps or simply a selection of clamps...from the bench I've fencing that needs sorting and maybe cupboards to hide the various selection of wheelie bins..all of which I can source the timber for free.
I'll leave it there, I'll use the search function to ensure I don't ask questions that are readily available. My intention is to initially work on different types of joint as a learning curve. So for now I'll simply lurk and look at work the " non bodgers " have posted so I might teach my lad to not follow in my bodging footsteps !!