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.

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Thanks,
Rick

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level and skills most seem to possess. I've seen and read about some =
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good things from this group. Everyone seems very knowledgable and =
helpful.
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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

Welcome Rick, make sure you put BAD on your ignore list.

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"Rick P." wrote in message
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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

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:56:44 GMT, "Rick P."
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Hi, Rick. Please turn off the HTML.


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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

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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

"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.

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

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
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:56:44 GMT, "Rick P."
calmly ranted:

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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 =

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

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Is it turned off now?

NoSpam wrote:

"Cody Hart" wrote in message
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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.

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

yup.

Cody Hart wrote:

Is it turned off now?

The Nannup Furniture Gallery
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Dont do it . . .. ..... . .. !!!

It is the pathway to hell and damnation . ..

look what its done to Larry - and poor old Jummy ( where is Jummwood these
days?) . .. . and Sigh! . . .. and the rest of the Jackalopes.!

Of course it hs left me relatively unscathed - . . . . . . I'm just not
very knowlageable ( see cant even spell it ) or helpful . . ..

Kiss your family goodbye and embark on your journey to the nether world -
the dark side of woodworking begs you to join the frivolity of buying more
tools to feed you - more space ( there goes the limo to the outside )
because 1 sqm is too much and 1000sqm is not enough . . .. .

Come and play with us . . . .. we crave fresh blood from the tugsten cuts
to your favourite digits . . . . !\

.. . . . .. . ...................
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 . . ..
Merry Xmas

Phully

"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

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 )

"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..."

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Greg

Hey Rick,
Whereabouts do you live! I'm in the Everett area myself. Always
like to find wood workers to compare notes with.
Michael

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

"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

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