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builderchad

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Firstly, please accept my apologies for not introducing myself as I registered last week and started posting without doing so - though I have been lurking for a couple months as a guest.

Gallery: http://www.zulu.net/ships/thumbnails.php?album=2

I live in Oxford and have been wookworking since August last year. My main interests are in box making and small furniture pieces but I am also keen on tool making. I have just started making a bowsaw and framesaw for myself. I like using hand tools but have a couple small powertools as well, and just today a new bandsaw. I'm a huge fan of Japanese saws (and pull-saws in general) as I find them easier to use and more accurate than western saws. My favorite toolmaker is Veritas - great company.

One of my main goals for this year is to make a kind of mini armoire with hidden compartments and a tiny data safe (fireproof for passports and other important docs) behind one of the doors. I have yet to settle on a design but its going to be a cross between a small chest of drawers and the top part of a traditional bureau - hard to explain so I will post pics of my plans at some point.

I would also love to be able to make my own wooden handplanes but that is for the future once I've owned a few and am more familiar with them (only dabbled with a friends HNT Gordon smoother before and loved it).

My dream tool at this point is the VP-60 variable pitch plane, but its probably a completely unnecessary luxury. Still want one though :oops: http://www.bridgecitytools.com/pages_static/vp-60.html (might take a few refreshes to get the page to display - thier web site is a little tempermental)

Anyway, thats me and glad to be a part of this community.
 
Welcome to the forum ! :D :D :D :D :D :D

'afraid the gallery was offline. Nice design web, your handy work?

Cheers
Phil
 
Welcome - at the risk of blowing my own trumpet, check out this link - it's much, much easier than you'd think...

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=59355

The VP60 is interesting - I'd not seen it before - but definitely in the luxury candidate area: do a search on this site for details on back bevels, bevel up planes and the likes, and you'll see how easy it is to achieve the same effect - probably with much less slop in the mechanism...
:wink:
 
builderchad":3k2648k5 said:
Thanks for all the welcomes everyone. Fantastic thread Shady, thanks for the link, it has definately inspired me to look more into it sooner rather than later.

The gallery should be up now.

http://www.zulu.net/ships/thumbnails.php?album=2

Not currently on line for me, are you by any chance seeing files in your local disk cash builderchad and not off your server
 
Welcome ot the forum, I think your interests will fit in well here :wink:
 
Bah, that was me being stupid. I was logged in via cookie as admin on the gallery which always shows me the ablums. Checked the settings and saw that the gallery was offline to guests...doh!

Should be fine now... :oops:
 
'I'm a huge fan of Japanese saws (and pull-saws in general) as I find them easier to use and more accurate than western saws.'

Lidl - £6.99 from today. Bought two, one for me and one for the garden.

Welcome - I just joined yeasterday.

David
 

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