Big HELLO! From li'l O'l England(ia) :)

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FlowolF

FlowolF

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Hi there folks - read a few threads on this forum over the last couple years or so despite never having owned a lathe (until very recently) - I got into making rings and other jewellery out of local ('found') woods that were spalted or otherwise highly figured by time, which of course dragged me through home stabilisation techs, which landed me lots of fishing and knife handle forum threads, and posts from here.

After trying all the usual dissolved polymer teks I followed Curtis' links and ordered myself a bottle of his CJ all the way over here and started to get things to really work right.

Now, after taking in off-shoots from my original path I'm into making all sorts of things with stabilised woods/resins/composites etc...

Then a few weeks ago my blessed FIL went and gave me a li'l Unimat SL... I've had a little play with it for wood so far but only with some cheap miniature hand carving tools (which even when freshly honed work dreadfully of course), and I still haven't stopped smiling about it, heheheh... the level of cleanup needed to indulge my new-found love of spraying vast ribbons and 'chipstreams' of material all over my workshops (tiny loft space, tiny brick shed space) has stunned me (into inactivity... ) on said front through, and I'm sure there's some 'karmic accumulation thing' involved in ignoring it that's gonna bite me soon though (it's a close bet between 'fire' and 'wife' related injury ATM)

Only prior 'turning' exp. I've had has been spindling things up on a vice clamped hand drill for some off-the-cuff shaping etc. (made my wife (then wife-to-be) a miniature conga drum out of a bit of eucalyptus twig using a crappy SS chef's knife as the cutter and a low power hand drill roped down to a stand-chair as the turning force LOL!) so I'm looking forward to delving in and seeing what this little lathe can add to my jewellery et-all <chuckle>.

Anyways, thanks for an excellent forum and let's see if this middle-aged dog can't still learn a few new tricks from some smart folks. ',;~}~

Thanks again, and Be Well All!

FlowolF
 
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skiprat said:
FlowolF said:
.....this middle-aged dog.....
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This makes you part of our Youth Program to attract youngsters. :biggrin:

Welcome to the mayhem Shaun !!:)
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Heheh, well you should see the folk at the local carving club I occasionally frequent - most of 'em look at me as if I wasn't born yet ',;~}~

Thanks for the welcome skiprat bud, and Ligget and Jim15 - appreciated muchly.

FlowolF
 
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walshjp17 said:
Welcome aboard, Shaun from *warm, sunny (at least it is today) Charlotte, NC.
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Thanks for the welcome but there's no need to rub it* in mate - that's just plain cruel - I'm in one of the wetter parts of the wetter end of Ol' Englandia here - great for my spalted woods, but the fungus on my feet form 11 solid months/year of walking under the damp and grey doesn't make pretty patterns, heheheh...

Cheers and Be Well!

',;~}~

FlowolF
 
Amen brother. It's colour, and honour and chesterfield OK that last one might be distinctly Canadian. We can go about a kilometer out of town to a cafe and have a cup of Earl Grey tea and some Cadbury chocolate. We went to war in 1914 not 1917. When you go to Europe and see the great condition the graves of fallen Canadian soldiers are in you stop and thank the locals for looking after the ones who didn't come home. We know what the miracle at Dunkirk was. I was knee high to a short toad for the royal wedding and not only did we all stay up way past bedtime to watch it, we didn't have a TV so we went to a neighbour's house to see it. And everybody knows where they were and what they were doing when they herd the news that Lady Dianna died. When Princess Anne visited we went to see her and wave at the car as it drove by. There is a small chance I'm still a proud Canadian. :biggrin:
 
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If it's Chesterfield leather furniture you're talking about then I'm sure that's our stuff LOL!

Oh yeah I hear your folks back home get the good bacon like we do, too? Heheheh...

As for the rest, well I gotta admit to earl grey being on my list of favourite teas, but am mostly a coffee drinker and anyway, I prefer to add my own citrus oils to base teas over ready blended EG. Also not a royalist in the least but the world became a shade darker when PD died, and bugger stiff upper lip - I still shed a tear or a dozen.

DON'T get me started on chocolate! Love the stuff but can no longer eat it as suddenly developed lactose intolerance AND milk protein allergy (and lamb protein, and gluten intolerance and more besides!) a few years ago - pah!

As for wars - lets hope all the bigger ones are behind us and lets put the rest of the fighting all to bed, eh ',:~}~

Cheers once again bruthah!

FlowolF
 
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Welcome to the fun! Sounds as if you're having a lot of your own over there.
One of my best holidays was in the Ribble Valley. On those wonderful canals. Long time ago though.
 
..And welcome to you from the colonies proper!<g>

I'm in Toronto, but was in Ottawa just last week- still has the remnants of a very British past there.

I think you'll have fun in this forum..
Cheers
Catherine
 
Katya said:
..And welcome to you from the colonies proper!<g>

I'm in Toronto, but was in Ottawa just last week- still has the remnants of a very British past there.

I think you'll have fun in this forum..
Cheers
Catherine
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<TIC>How close do the French get to you though? We have a chunk of water in the way but I'm not reassured much by it... <TIC>

Thanks for the welcome and my sin sear apple orgies to any French readers offended by the <cough>'faux'<cough> xenophobia.

All jesting aside - have a real hankering to visit Canada (esp. BC'n places) some day and check out the awesome forests.

Would like to visit this lass who operates mostly just over the border in the USA too Sara Robinson | Wood Science & Engineering | Oregon State University - she does some awesome spalting research and turns some fine bowls too.

Gonna have to work harder or win bigger and plan a 6+ month North America trip!

Bon soir, a la prochaine!

FlowolF - having fun already! Now I just gotta get someone to teach me this turning lark, heheh...
 
Thanks fellas!

FlowolF - From Pendle Witch country, in the shadow of the hill itself, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied as a youth, and where he met his Real Moriarty.

(But apart from that, basically it's just wet, muddy and green some of the time).
 
FlowolF said:
Thanks fellas!

FlowolF - From Pendle Witch country, in the shadow of the hill itself, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied as a youth, and where he met his Real Moriarty.

(But apart from that, basically it's just wet, muddy and green some of the time).
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Then you'd be right at home on the West Coast of BC & N.West US. Wet, grey skys, green, lots of Doug Fir forests.
Russ
 
monark88 said:
FlowolF said:
Thanks fellas!

FlowolF - From Pendle Witch country, in the shadow of the hill itself, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied as a youth, and where he met his Real Moriarty.

(But apart from that, basically it's just wet, muddy and green some of the time).
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Then you'd be right at home on the West Coast of BC & N.West US. Wet, grey skys, green, lots of Doug Fir forests.
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Probaly would if I didn't feel like my natural home should be a warm, sunny place - it's a kinda family standing joke that I'm 'solar powered' - I always seem to have lots of energy when the sun shines and it gets /hot/.

Still get me in the leafy trees in any weather and I'm grinning.

Know whatcha mean though - Seen lots of photos and video of BC and PNW etc. forest/woodland - had a few USEnet mountainbike news group friends from over those ways - beautiful countryside and I do love the forest and woods - always have! Also had a (wild mushroom/amateur mycology news group) friend who lived on, is it Queen Charlotte Island? Yeah he lived way out the way and was an avid mushroom hunter - was a treasure trove he had on his doorstep. And bears ',;~}~

Had a hankering to visit some of N. Am.'s wet woodland areas for a looooong time, but never had the finances yet - ya never know though - anything could happen and it'd be fairly high on the list indeed - still got a couple standing invites or so to the BC area and a fantastic spalting/mycology workshop I'd love to go on run by a wonderful, very smart lass (understatement of the year) called Sarah Robinson (This Web site coming soon) - read a fair bit of her work and had several e-mail chats with her - she's a real star - very helpful/indulging and full of the joys of her pursuits.

Anyway I'm getting myself all worked up, heheh...

',;~}~

FlowolF
 
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