22-01-2013, 03:08 PM
Hi,
You really are so kind Tony in bestowing me with such compliments; I'm pleased you like my work. Thank you.
I've gradually improved with each project I've tackled over many years but my main inspiration when I started woodworking was poverty. With a huge mortgage and no money to even buy a second hand sofa I decided to have a go at making furniture from off-cuts which I could obtain cheaply through contacts.
Speaking of Victorian standards Tony it comes as a surprise to think I was actually born half way between Victorian times and now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era
The mechanical engineers who taught me were of the old school and knew their subject. Thankfully something must have rubbed off on me.
I'm sure you would have done extremely well Tony had you been around to work on radios in the 1920's. One thing is sure; you would have found it so easy to repair a set then because they were new and any fault would most likely be easy to locate unlike now when such sets are riddled with faults through age.
At the moment I have lots of projects stacked up but I simply don't feel like doing anything; I do enjoy all my projects but a lot of fun is taken from them in trying to work around the bad weather. I'm fighting the urge to go out and dig the patio up because I know if I do the trench will quickly fill with icy cold water which will refuse to drain because our bungalow is built on clay. I'm not wishing my life away but it will soon be March and the clocks will go forward with springtime to look forward to.
Kind regards, Col.
You really are so kind Tony in bestowing me with such compliments; I'm pleased you like my work. Thank you.
I've gradually improved with each project I've tackled over many years but my main inspiration when I started woodworking was poverty. With a huge mortgage and no money to even buy a second hand sofa I decided to have a go at making furniture from off-cuts which I could obtain cheaply through contacts.
Speaking of Victorian standards Tony it comes as a surprise to think I was actually born half way between Victorian times and now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era
The mechanical engineers who taught me were of the old school and knew their subject. Thankfully something must have rubbed off on me.
I'm sure you would have done extremely well Tony had you been around to work on radios in the 1920's. One thing is sure; you would have found it so easy to repair a set then because they were new and any fault would most likely be easy to locate unlike now when such sets are riddled with faults through age.
At the moment I have lots of projects stacked up but I simply don't feel like doing anything; I do enjoy all my projects but a lot of fun is taken from them in trying to work around the bad weather. I'm fighting the urge to go out and dig the patio up because I know if I do the trench will quickly fill with icy cold water which will refuse to drain because our bungalow is built on clay. I'm not wishing my life away but it will soon be March and the clocks will go forward with springtime to look forward to.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
