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Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and helpful.
I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from within here. -- Thanks, Rick |
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wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name = is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with = aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as = good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading = and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge = level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some = very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of = good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and = helpful. I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly = regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from = within here. Nice to meet you, Rick. Could'ja turn off the HTML, please? Thanks. If you want to be half as good as some of the folks here, you're way more ambitious than I am. I'd be quite happy being 1/4 of the way there. ;-) djb |
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Welcome Rick, make sure you put BAD on your ignore list.
-- Rumpty Radial Arm Saw Forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/woodbutcher/start - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Rick P." wrote in message ... Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and helpful. I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from within here. -- Thanks, Rick |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:56:44 GMT, "Rick P."
calmly ranted: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0066_01C46BDB.FC45A8D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name = is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with = Hi, Rick. Please turn off the HTML. aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as = good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading = and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge = level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some = very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of = good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and = helpful. Yeah, this is one of the best newsgroups in existence. I've learned a hell of a lot from these old (and young) farts. ;) I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly = regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from = within here. Post pics to alt.binaries.pictures.furniture or a.b.p.woodworking - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming |
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Hi Rick,
Welcome to woodworking...I'm not sure what people mean by turning off html...All I got was your post...What areas of woodworking are you interested in? I've been building jigs and buying machinery for 7 years. Building jigs is fun to me. I mostly do outdoor furniture, scratch built shipmodels, and medium sized household stuff..Bookcases, shelving, coat racks, and that type of stuff. I work mainly with native lumber(hardwoods) that I cut and resaw myself. Spalted woods are my favorite. If you need some links for free plans, let me know... Rick P. wrote: Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and helpful. I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from within here. -- Thanks, Rick |
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... Hi Rick, Welcome to woodworking...I'm not sure what people mean by turning off html...All I got was your post...What areas of Cody needs to turn off HTML too. If you view the properties of your posts you will see what HTML means. If you just look at the sizes of the posts you will see that Rick's post was 5 KB, while Dave's and Rumpty's were both 2 KB even though they quoted Rick's entire (text) message. Cody's HTML bloat took 5 KB. Please do not post HTML even in a binaries group. |
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Sorry folks, HTML is now off.
Thanks Cody, I'll definitely keep that in mind. What I'm mainly into right now is wanting to build some adirondack chairs and some other outdoor stuff like that. I need to build a solid and sturdy workbench for my new little hobby shop work area and I also would like to try my hand at building a nice router cabinet. The bench plans are from a recent shopnotes issue I saw. Thanks again, Rick "Cody Hart" wrote in message ... Hi Rick, Welcome to woodworking...I'm not sure what people mean by turning off html...All I got was your post...What areas of woodworking are you interested in? I've been building jigs and buying machinery for 7 years. Building jigs is fun to me. I mostly do outdoor furniture, scratch built shipmodels, and medium sized household stuff..Bookcases, shelving, coat racks, and that type of stuff. I work mainly with native lumber(hardwoods) that I cut and resaw myself. Spalted woods are my favorite. If you need some links for free plans, let me know... Rick P. wrote: Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and helpful. I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from within here. -- Thanks, Rick |
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Thanks for pointing that out Larry, taken care of.
I've read and seen some good stuff in these two forums so I thought I would benefit from joining in. Thanks, Rick "Larry Jaques" wrote in message ... On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:56:44 GMT, "Rick P." calmly ranted: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0066_01C46BDB.FC45A8D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi folks, I'm new to this group and wanted to introduce myself. My name = is Rick, from Washington state and I'm an amateur woodworking with = Hi, Rick. Please turn off the HTML. aspirations of someday getting my skill level up to somewhere half as = good as most of you are. I've been "lurking" for a month or so reading = and viewing some excellent stuff, I'm very impressed with the knowledge = level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some = very nice work detailed in pictures so I am hoping to learn a lot of = good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and = helpful. Yeah, this is one of the best newsgroups in existence. I've learned a hell of a lot from these old (and young) farts. ;) I'll be posting pics, questions and comments and such on a fairly = regular basis. I look forward to learning and growing my skills from = within here. Post pics to alt.binaries.pictures.furniture or a.b.p.woodworking - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming |
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Is it turned off now?
NoSpam wrote: "Cody Hart" wrote in message ... Hi Rick, Welcome to woodworking...I'm not sure what people mean by turning off html...All I got was your post...What areas of Cody needs to turn off HTML too. If you view the properties of your posts you will see what HTML means. If you just look at the sizes of the posts you will see that Rick's post was 5 KB, while Dave's and Rumpty's were both 2 KB even though they quoted Rick's entire (text) message. Cody's HTML bloat took 5 KB. Please do not post HTML even in a binaries group. |
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Yepper, Adirondack chairs are a favortite of my wife. I have some full
sized patterns that I can get plotted if you would care to have a set. Albeit I am 50 miles from Des Moines, If your aren't in a big hurry, I'll be going up there in a week or so. I just finished building several good and solid workbenches from old piano frames.... Rick P. wrote: Sorry folks, HTML is now off. Thanks Cody, I'll definitely keep that in mind. What I'm mainly into right now is wanting to build some adirondack chairs and some other outdoor stuff like that. I need to build a solid and sturdy workbench for my new little hobby shop work area and I also would like to try my hand at building a nice router cabinet. The bench plans are from a recent shopnotes issue I saw. Thanks again, Rick |
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yup.
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:05:41 GMT, "Rick P."
wrote: Sorry folks, HTML is now off. Thanks Cody, I'll definitely keep that in mind. What I'm mainly into right now is wanting to build some adirondack chairs and some other outdoor stuff like that. I need to build a solid and sturdy workbench for my new little hobby shop work area and I also would like to try my hand at building a nice router cabinet. my usual advice about building a router table is don't try to build too fancy a one the first time. in fact, start with a slab of scrap (a formica sink cutout is great) and mount your router under that and clamp it to a couple of saw horses. use that for a while until you have a good itea of it's shotrcomings for *your* use in *your* shop. then modify it or build another one that addresses those issues. only after a few rounds of that should you consider building a fancy one. if you build the fancy one first you'll get attached to it and be stuck with it's shortcomings. The bench plans are from a recent shopnotes issue I saw. Thanks again, Rick can I suggest that this post stay in rec.woodworking since it is discussion? (he says, crossposting G ) |
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"Phil Laird" wrote in message ...
. . . . .. . ................... Fark me - whered that all come from .. . . . .? Must still be in my recovery phase from having our Christmass in July bash at the Darradup Volunteer Bush Fire shed last night. .. . What a great **** up . .. . recovery is not going well though . . .. As they say "you've got to be real crook to die son..." -- Greg |
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Hey Rick,
Whereabouts do you live! I'm in the Everett area myself. Always like to find wood workers to compare notes with. Michael |
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Hi Michael, I live up north in that huge metropolis called Stanwood. I am
an engineering technical designer and work in Everett at that major aircraft manufacturing facility. Just FYI "neighbor". I would appreciate and enjoy sharing and comparing. Just remove (nospam) from my email address if you would like to send directly. Thanks, Rick "mrmortise" wrote in message om... Hey Rick, Whereabouts do you live! I'm in the Everett area myself. Always like to find wood workers to compare notes with. Michael |
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"Rick P." wrote:
I need to build a solid and sturdy workbench for my new little hobby shop work area and I also would like to try my hand at building a nice router cabinet. The essential parts of a router table a 1 - A mounting for the router that doesn't move around (ie, if you're going to use a router plate insert, make sure that there's *no* slop in the cavity it goes in. 2 - An adjustable fence. The first router table I started building was the one that Norm did on New Yankee Workshop... a big behemoth with a footprint bigger than 3'x'2. I never even finished it before I realized that the space it consumed was just way too much compared with the size of my shop and the amount I anticipated using it. I tore it all up and then bought Rockler's $99 benchtop one and I'm very happy with it. Almost all router tables you see for sale (and many plans) include a miter gauge slot. If you ask most people here, hardly any have every used the slot for anything... and most are even at a loss when they try to *imagine* something you'd use it for (the only thing I can think of is for making tenons). So, the miter slot is fairly overrated on router tables. As far as workbenches go... that recent one from ShopNotes about a year or so back is a bit of a beast. I'm currently making the one from issue #24 (http://store.yahoo.com/backissuesstore/sn024.html). It's going to be 2'x5' when I finish it. If I had it all to do over again, I'd probably have made it 2'x4' so that it would be a snap to go down to the hardware store and buy more sheets of 2'x4' masonite to use as disposable tops. Anyway... project-specific tips aside, the best bit of info I've picked up from this group so far is this: Power tools won't make you a woodworker. The explanation of that axiom is: If you don't know how to make stuff with hand tools, then power tools aren't going to help much. Unless you know how to make stuff fit properly with hand tools, they probably aren't going to fit properly made with power tools. This doesn't mean that you should go out and spend your kids' college fund on all of the exotic hand planes you can find, but you should, at least, be able to picture how you'd do something with hand tools before you save your time by doing it with power tools. - Joe |
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Joe Emenaker wrote:
"Rick P." wrote: I need to build a solid and sturdy workbench for my new little hobby shop work area and I also would like to try my hand at building a nice router cabinet. The essential parts of a router table a 1 - A mounting for the router that doesn't move around (ie, if you're going to use a router plate insert, make sure that there's *no* slop in the cavity it goes in. 2 - An adjustable fence. snip Almost all router tables you see for sale (and many plans) include a miter gauge slot. If you ask most people here, hardly any have every used the slot for anything... and most are even at a loss when they try to *imagine* something you'd use it for (the only thing I can think of is for making tenons). So, the miter slot is fairly overrated on router tables. snip - Joe I, OTOH, use the miter slot frequently, but mostly for holding a featherboard. I guess the frequency of use depends on the kind of stuff you do. Glen |
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