14-06-2012, 07:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-06-2012, 07:37 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Colin said " Did I mention I love woodworking? ".
But is what he does really woodworking? To me its just using his engineering training and years of experience where wood happens to be one of the materials.
Its certainly not what my Dad would call woodworking and he was a carpenter and joiner by trade although he aslo did decorating and general building; anything he could get really. I can remember his workshop clearly from the hours I spent in there. Not a machine tool in sight but racks of hand tools, big benches with stops for 'shooting' (planning flat) timber with large jack planes, saw horses and more .
I dont see any mortise and tenon joints in Colin's work... all cut on a regular basis by hand with tennon saw and very sharp chisels in the old days.
Were they the "good old days" No! of course they werent. Dad didnt even have any motorised transport after WW2, mainly as he had no money and I expect getting petrol was a problem. He used to get to jobs and take finished work on a massive wooden barrow with iron shod wheels. He must have been one strong man, how he pulled it and manouvered it up and down the few hills around where we lived I cant imagine.
Later he got a twin side valve BSA motorbike (great on the pillion as a kid) and made a huge box sidecar for it. As things picked up the first van came along, it must have been bliss for him.
We still really have it so good
Gary
But is what he does really woodworking? To me its just using his engineering training and years of experience where wood happens to be one of the materials.
Its certainly not what my Dad would call woodworking and he was a carpenter and joiner by trade although he aslo did decorating and general building; anything he could get really. I can remember his workshop clearly from the hours I spent in there. Not a machine tool in sight but racks of hand tools, big benches with stops for 'shooting' (planning flat) timber with large jack planes, saw horses and more .
I dont see any mortise and tenon joints in Colin's work... all cut on a regular basis by hand with tennon saw and very sharp chisels in the old days.
Were they the "good old days" No! of course they werent. Dad didnt even have any motorised transport after WW2, mainly as he had no money and I expect getting petrol was a problem. He used to get to jobs and take finished work on a massive wooden barrow with iron shod wheels. He must have been one strong man, how he pulled it and manouvered it up and down the few hills around where we lived I cant imagine.
Later he got a twin side valve BSA motorbike (great on the pillion as a kid) and made a huge box sidecar for it. As things picked up the first van came along, it must have been bliss for him.
We still really have it so good
Gary
