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Currently at the launch of the new magazine, with a bit of a display of assorted tools I grabbed from the shed. Interesting to be a part of it – normally mags are well established before I become involved so seeing one just starting out (and being a part of it as a guest author) [...]
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I was having a look at my workbench, and couldn’t see it for all the tools and accessories over it. There was a large collection of jaws, chucks and turning chisels all over it. Time for some cleanup! I am struggling to figure out where I will actually mount storage, but that is a problem [...]
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You are walking in the bush, or beside a stream, and see a rock like any other, a bit dirty, perhaps with a good collection of moss (not a rock of the rolling variety). You might walk right on pass, use it as a stepping stone, or pick it up and toss it into the [...]
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Please note: Carbatec have cancelled the entire “An evening with” programme, so the upcoming booking on September 1 (An Evening with Stu’s Shed) has also been cancelled. This includes any other evenings that were also arranged with other presenters. Sorry about the short notice – I’ve only just found out myself.
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Sometimes, it adds to the whole tactile experience when you pick up a wooden object and feel the weight and substance of the object. On the other hand when I’m turning these days, I like the idea that the object is no heavier than it needs to be, or to put it another way, that [...]
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This section of an old Rimu tree was 815 years old when it was felled in the 1920s. It is now housed in the Auckland Museum, and although it isn’t the largest, or widest or anything, it is still quite an impressive sample. I can remember seeing it on many visits over the past 40 [...]
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It is sometimes hard to find the perfect souvenir, especially from a place that was once also home. I was looking for something particularly meaningful, a bit of a statement of my past. I already have a bone fishhook – a very traditional symbol representing the hook used by Maui when he hooked and pulled [...]
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AWOL First, an apology for being AWOL for the past 10 days, and particularly the last few. As some may have gathered, I have been traveling around a bit of the North Island with my family, visiting my folks, and revisiting some of my old stomping grounds. For the sake of security I didn’t make [...]
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It may seem like only a few hours ago that I started the article, transforming some firewood into potential turning blanks. However, for me it has been quite a bit longer, so it is time to finish the article, part 2! My plan for one of the blanks is a bit of a vase shape. [...]
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A number of years ago, my neighbour at the time (now since passed on) mentioned a friend of his who had just cut down a couple of trees, and they’d be good firewood. There was a lot of that going on in the area at the time, lots of areas once typical southern Victorian farmland [...]
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Back 10 years ago, one of my Uncles & Aunts gave me/us a GMC lathe as a wedding present. That lathe required a bench, and to cut the sleeper to length I bought a Triton saw. From there, my Triton collection quickly expanded, and resulted in me joining a Triton club, which I took on [...]
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Turns out I can’t show the photos I took yesterday after all, so until the restriction is lifted (presumably after the movies come out, but will have to check), the photos for the post will have to remain hidden from view. When I have a better connection, I’ll replace them with some photos I can [...]
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