Jumpjet1127

Hi Steve great to meet you from a one day newbie Brit, I am certainly enjoying this site . So I think you will be at home here some great people around. Don't worry about the saw dust it looks like I'll be sweeping up most days I don't mind that and perhaps I will cook now and again. Bringing a bit of British old style cooking to the breakfast table.

Wow Carl love your paintings, what materials do you use to make them 3d looking. The humming bird is my favourite, can you share the processes? Hans with a work shop like mine I can now find what I want straight away everything in it's place , my son-in-law just put up some shelves in the roof purlins and daughter helped me tidy it all last week. Such a pleasure to go down there and chill out and think. I have my old rocking chair to sit out, reminds me of America and the old westerns sitting on the veranda carving away with a knife. If I had sawdust on the floor then my throat and lungs would suffer, but for you I'll sprinkle a bit by the doors outside. A cougar I painted on a piece of Baltic birch I cut out on the bandsaw.

So many welcomes it is much appreciated. Angela where are you from in the uk, good to meet you I need to go and look at your gallery in a minute, and hope to chat to you soon. Hi Ike is poplar a soft wood , your shed sounds like a big space to work from I have so much to learn a hefgner scroll saw sounds to be a most popular machine what is yours? I suppose I start a gallery do I or is it ok to post photos where ever I am replying. This is the inside of my recently tidied cabin. And a3 layered puzzle of snowmen made from Baltic birch ply. Thanks to all the others for your welcome I hope to get to talk to you all. Linda

Hi Marg thanks for the welcome I looked at your gallery and it seems you are real clever with the scroll saw, love your intricate work . I make puzzles with my scroll saw and have not the patients to keep on feeding the saw blade in to each and every space to cut, but I do like whizzing around the edges of a puzzle, my last scroll saw project was a 3 layered tray puzzle . It is so nice to talk to a female interested in woodwork, and also to read a man's perspective after all we are invading there hobby. Yes we are growing berries , as well as raspberries we grow blueberries, strawberries kiwi fruit and have a mixed orchard of apples pears and cherries hubby has the job of looking after the fruit and veg and flower garden I harvest and cook It all. Hope to see some more of your work and chat.

Thanks all for your welcome, I would certainly love a cup of tea don't drink coffee I think I will pop over to see who is in for breakfast in a minute. Larry I will put on some pics as soon as I found out how to do it I am not a techno brain but will try and figure it out, ah just seen more reply options if I go to that perhaps I can post a pic. Carl I just looked at your profile and it seems we have the same idea I try everything too, it just happens on the day I get a mind to make something that I have seen in the American scroll saw magazine pop down to my cabin and am fortunate enough to have a machine to make the project. I do have a Dremel and also a palm held jig saw to cut out gourds with I did a bit of fret work on a gourd and made my interpretation of a Welsh love spoon, I am also an artist so I painted a humming bird on the fret work handle. Pic to come. I am 66 and been retired from accountancy for 7years. With no one to talk to about my wood work ( I don't think there are many females in the uk that do this stuff). I am glad I found this forum I think it will inspire me if I pop in every day . I bought a record power air purifier so like you need protection for my lungs and once I saved some more money intend to buy a full helmet respirator the dust from my band saw is the worst one around for my lungs although now I have it connected to a big dust cleaner. Rolly good to meet you my brother-in-law lives in stow on the wold, a very beautiful county Gloucestershire, I am in the South East of England in Kent 5 miles from Folkestone and the channel tunnel. We live in a village on the top of the South downs and my local wood yard is in Sutton near Dover. Kevin I hope to talk with you in the coffee house thanks for replying to me. My cabin is a luxury and I was able to build it with some inheritance it is 13feet by 13 feet. I am so fortunate in many ways . I must go and have my cup of tea talk later. Linda. (By the way my user name jump jet1127 is the first ever vertical take off plane in the UK my father worked on it back in the sixties, and he is who I get all my skills from dear Dad bless him.

Hello to you all, I am in to all wood work and I use my bandsaw the most , I have 2 scroll saws, a wood lathe and an electric carver. In the UK we don't have access to supplies for the crafts I do so I used to import Gourds and cypress knees from your wonderful country and got a complete stock until the postage went up and was the same price as the objects I was importing. All now stored in my cabin and ready for when I get the inspiration to use them. I can' t get cotton wood and would love to know what this Brit could use to carve some wood spirits. I use English yew most of the time and am making a reindeer candle holder the wood has such beautiful colours of orange and cream. Plus Baltic birch for the antlers cut out on my proxon scroll saw. I look forward to getting to know you all and chatting daily as I retired 7 years ago, and go down to my cabin most days.