1st intro 'disappeared...? 2nd attempt...

[Accipiter]

Not sure why my first introduction post disappeared from the list but trying again...

Saw a mention of this forum elsewhere, paid a visit, liked the rules so put in to join.

I'm now in my 70's but had an interest in woodworking from when being fortunate to be given the lessons at school... all those years ago. Presently resurrecting the small workshop - photos posted in my previous introduction - making some fliptop workbenchs for the Tyme SL750 lathe, TPT125 thicknesser and a mitre-saw.

Some previous employment was with a local hardwood timber merchant (1987 to 1992) on the sales floor selling English and imported hardwood timbers as well as exotic turning blanks and craft supplies. Then a small pine furniture manufacturer working on the spindle moulder.

Made this rocking chair for my daughter before she gave birth to our grandson in 2021. Unsure of the cream coloured wood, think it is a Maple, with walnut inserts and dowel bottom front rail.

Shorter intro, no photos of the fliptop units this time.

 

[RogerS]

Some of us Mods have day jobs

Welcome to the forum and with pictures you’ll fit right in !

Also from this wonderful county.

 

[Accipiter]

Some of us Mods have day jobs

Welcome to the forum and with pictures you’ll fit right in !

Also from this wonderful county.

Totally understand that... Just couldn't understand why my first introduction post disappeared from the list while 'waiting approval' - there one second gone the next after posting about ½ hour before! Had quite a few photos which I got the impression you all like to see - which was why I included them in the first intro .

Thanks for the welcome

 

[Malc2098]

Wotcher, from Mid-Devon. I did seven years of woodwork at school all those years ago, too.. Got my A Level, then never worked a wood making job at all up to retirement. Now I make musical instruments, and still remember, and use, 'plane face side, plane face edge'.

You'll like it here.

 

[Accipiter]

Thanks for the welcome @Malc2098 .

Got my 'O' level in woodwork after my father got convinced by a 'Carreers Advisor' (!?) that I'd get a better job if I stayed on to 'O' levels... I'd an apprenticeship lined up with a cabinet maker/joinery *before* we saw the CA. Can't say I did benefit from staying on... first job after leaving school was with a jewellers - apprenticeship went to someone else ... Still - variety is the spice of life so I've been told and I learned different things from all the various jobs along the way. Last job before retirement was as a Cream Process Operator - separating milk into the different % fats 48, 40,18...

I also remember those marks forthe face and edge

 

[duke]

Welcome

 

[johnward]

Welcome Frank. My parents gave me a very basic tool kit when I passed my eleven plus and I continued my interest in woodworking at school passing an O level in 1958. But it took until I retired to take it up as a hobby and have made a lot of very nice furniture for my home in the past 15 years or so.
Happy woodworking. I hope you enjoy this forum, lots of very experienced members here.

 

[Accipiter]

Thanks for the welcomes @johnward and @duke . Bit embarrassing to now find both of my introduction postings appear ... Oops!

 

[AJB Temple]

Hello from me too.

 

[Woodbloke]

Welcome from me as well. I didn't have any formal woodwork instruction apart from a couple of years at school, so I'm entirely self taught and still (for my sins) still learning - Rob

 

[Lons]

Hi Frank, welcome from Northumberland just a few miles north of you.

I got only 2 years worth of school woodwork before being forced to drop in in favour of latin which I hated and never did me an ounce of good. I always envied my brothers who attended a diffent school and got their proper allocation. I'd have loved the chance to do some metalwork as well but not available.

 

[AJB Temple]

Same as Lons really for me. I did metalwork and woodwork for 2 years, and really loved it, then the school system put a stop to that as I was shifted to a boys only scholarship school and they were focussed on sciences. Had to do Latin too (and pointless "general studies") as it was required for university entrance. I'm still learning too and although I've acquired some narrow skills I still make lots of mistakes. We have some really skilled people on here though.

 

[Accipiter]

@Woodbloke , @Lons and @AJB Temple ... Sorry to hear your schools let you down on continuing the woodwork etc. I do feel privileged to have had the lessons I did and the opportunity to take O level in woodwork - even though I lost the apprenticeship with staying on. Thanks for the welcome

 

[Phil]

Welcome from further down South.

 

[Woodbloke]

... in in favour of latin which I hated and never did me an ounce of good.

Oddly, these days, reading Latin is something I wish I could do. I'm a little bit in awe of Mary Beard when she was able to cycle down the Appian Way on her red bike and read the stories on some very long dead Roman's tomb - Rob

 

[GaryR]

And welcome from the USA, too.

 

[AndyP]

My latin begins and ends with Audere est Facere.

 

[RogerS]

The only way I managed to get my Latin O level was to memorise the English translation of De Bello Gallici and some key Latin words as ‘anchors’. I can still remember the opening words …In the days of Appius Claudius, Caesar while returning from his winter quarters…

 

[Mike G]

.........no postillian struck by lightning, then?

 

[Malc2098]

I did Latin and Woodwork O Level. Doesn't anyone remember Catullus with his 'Let us live and love my Lesbia…"

 

[Woodbloke]

The only way I managed to get my Latin O level was to memorise the English translation of De Bello Gallici and some key Latin words as ‘anchors’. I can still remember the opening words …In the days of Appius Claudius, Caesar while returning from his winter quarters…

At my first grammar school, grace was always said before meal times in Latin (Benedictus benedicat per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum) and I can still remember it but it must be nigh on sixty years ago - Rob