scrimper Posted January 5, 2022 Report Posted January 5, 2022 Hello folks as you can see from my title I am scrimperuk from England. I have always been a scrimper, more to do with making do and mending rather than saving money. Most of the things I do are done with stuff others have thrown away. I have been a fretworker since I was a young boy, both my late grandfather and late father were fretworkers and I still have my grandfathers original Hobbies treadle machine he bought back in 1900, although nowadays I generally use a Hegner machine. My main fretworking interests are in the history of the UK Hobbies and Handicrafts companies and their early fretwork designs of which I have a large collection. For quite sometime I have been working on my website entitled The "Fretworker" however I am not ready to publish it yet as it isn't finished. I am sorry to be going on a bit but if you want to find out why my friends think I am an oddball you might like to have a look at my Youtube channel which you will find under my user name scrimperuk. you will find over 200 of my videos on lot's of subjects but many on fretworking and scrollsaws, plus the first four parts of my history of the Hobbies and Handicrafts companies. Thanks for taking the time to read thus far. Dave Monk, ChelCass, Blaughn and 1 other 4 Quote
jollyred Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome to the forum. I am definitely looking forward to perusing your Youtube channel. Lots of good people on the forum. Tom Quote
Dak0ta52 Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome to the Village from SE North Carolina, Scrimperuk. I look forward to seeing some of your videos and work. Quote
don watson Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome from Fife, UK. I have seen you on ukworkshop forums for a while now. We are quite friendly here but we LOVE pictures, loads of pictures. Don W Quote
Foxfold Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome to the Village from sunny Doncaster. This is a great place to be, lots of lovely knowledgeable, friendly people... I've just seen your youtube channel video with the Giraffe. I love doing 'animals' too, here's my Gorilla. heppnerguy 1 Quote
Denny Knappen Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome to the Village forum from Tennessee. Quote
Roberta Moreton Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Welcome! I do enjoy watching YouTube. Just subscribed. Quote
meflick Posted January 6, 2022 Report Posted January 6, 2022 Another Tennessee welcome to the Village. Quote
wombatie Posted January 7, 2022 Report Posted January 7, 2022 Welcome to the Village from a very stormy Australia. Marg Quote
Blaughn Posted January 7, 2022 Report Posted January 7, 2022 Welcome to the forum, Scrimperuk! Bruce Quote
scrimper Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Posted January 8, 2022 Many thanks for the welcome. I will probably not post here at the moment because I discovered after setting up this account that I already had one under the name "scrimper" I though I had but could not find any reference to it in my records, furthermore the email I used for the account is defunct so I can't access it. I am trying to get access to that account and amalgamate the two or cancel one. Quote
heppnerguy Posted January 9, 2022 Report Posted January 9, 2022 A big welcome from sunny Southern Arizona. Glad you are with us and I will definitely go check out your page as i sounds like it should be very interesting indeed. I would also enjoy seeing a photo of your old scroll saw machine. Hope you stick around here a lot and post some of your work here also Dick heppnerguy Quote
scrimper Posted January 9, 2022 Author Report Posted January 9, 2022 14 hours ago, heppnerguy said: A big welcome from sunny Southern Arizona. Glad you are with us and I will definitely go check out your page as i sounds like it should be very interesting indeed. I would also enjoy seeing a photo of your old scroll saw machine. Hope you stick around here a lot and post some of your work here also Dick heppnerguy Hi Dick You can see my old treadle machine in my video, the video is in two parts, part one is here Quote
meflick Posted January 9, 2022 Report Posted January 9, 2022 19 hours ago, scrimperuk said: Many thanks for the welcome. I will probably not post here at the moment because I discovered after setting up this account that I already had one under the name "scrimper" I though I had but could not find any reference to it in my records, furthermore the email I used for the account is defunct so I can't access it. I am trying to get access to that account and amalgamate the two or cancel one. @Travis may be able to help you get that sorted with the two different accounts. Quote
old sarge Posted January 9, 2022 Report Posted January 9, 2022 (edited) Welcome from SE Arizona. I've seen a couple of your videos. You do nice work. Edited January 9, 2022 by old sarge Quote
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