template tom
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It has been some time since I logged into the forum suppose I have been busy with a few topics. First I have been producing my own Dining Room chairs all eight of them and all carvers. I have also been making visits to schools talking to teachers on the safety aspects of using the router then on to conducting Professional development. Also a number of years ago I produced a couple of CD-Roms on the method I have developed with the use of the Template guides. I have also been seen on another forum since 2004 trying to move them on to at least try a project with the guides.
I have also been spending a great deal of time producing DVD material on the use of the router, the topics were what I had produced as a CD-ROM. I was persuades to convert them to the DVD format and that has taken some time In fact I am still working on the second section.
Three weeks ago I made an offer to members (The first ten to reply) from the Australian woodworking Forum to view my DVDs at a reduced price, and give their comments. You may catch some of their comments in the next few weeks as they try the technique I have developed
The use of the template guides has always been a hard one to sell and I was wondering what the situation is like back in the old country. Is the use of the guides popular and what sort of projects are carried out with their use. I went back teaching for a year in 2003 where I was teaching blind people woodwork and that was a great experience for me, I suppose it could be said it was the best class I ever had the pleasure to teach in my 31 years teaching experience. Just one day per week as I had retired some 4 years before.
I would be interested in the development that has taken place in the UK with the use of the guides if some would care to comment. I would love to post a couple of pics of my chairs I have produced with the router also a couple of neat joints (a) a tenon on a mitred rail for a table and (b) a sliding dovetail on a mitred rail again for a small table.
So if some one would like to inform me as to whether the guides are popular or not and what sort of projects are produced I would be most grateful
Tom
Maybe someone can advise me on how to post the pics
I have also been spending a great deal of time producing DVD material on the use of the router, the topics were what I had produced as a CD-ROM. I was persuades to convert them to the DVD format and that has taken some time In fact I am still working on the second section.
Three weeks ago I made an offer to members (The first ten to reply) from the Australian woodworking Forum to view my DVDs at a reduced price, and give their comments. You may catch some of their comments in the next few weeks as they try the technique I have developed
The use of the template guides has always been a hard one to sell and I was wondering what the situation is like back in the old country. Is the use of the guides popular and what sort of projects are carried out with their use. I went back teaching for a year in 2003 where I was teaching blind people woodwork and that was a great experience for me, I suppose it could be said it was the best class I ever had the pleasure to teach in my 31 years teaching experience. Just one day per week as I had retired some 4 years before.
I would be interested in the development that has taken place in the UK with the use of the guides if some would care to comment. I would love to post a couple of pics of my chairs I have produced with the router also a couple of neat joints (a) a tenon on a mitred rail for a table and (b) a sliding dovetail on a mitred rail again for a small table.
So if some one would like to inform me as to whether the guides are popular or not and what sort of projects are produced I would be most grateful
Tom
Maybe someone can advise me on how to post the pics
