Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Something different

As you may be aware, I am a member of the Bribie Woodcrafters' and learning a lot of new skills. I like working with wood, and I like my machines even more. I have acquired quite a collection and the corner in my garage was getting rather crowded. Everything was on trestles and a small Triton workbench, but since last week I am the proud owner of a real workbench:


I have sorted everything out and tidied up and I am hoping that I can keep it quite as tidy as it is now...

Having such, may I say unusually small, machines for woodworking it has attracted quite an interest at the 'Woodies' and I was asked to come around on market days to demonstrate, which I happily did last Sunday, together with my other half.  I took a number of my miniatures around to display and it is amazing when you realise how few people actually know about this hobby.  Frank demonstrated the milling machine and the router(table), I worked on my thicknesser and table saw.  We took a kind of Unimat system with us as well, although we were not working on it, but had it set up for wood turning.  Everyone commented on the size of it: so small!  Anyway, I did some preparation work for workshops, so time wasn't wasted and we had a lovely day overall.  Who knows, we might eventually get some more people interested in miniatures.

Before Sunday I had also made a little cabinet.  Since it's meant for the Florist go and have a look at my other blog if you haven't already done so.

On Monday I had a lucky escape while doing my cabinet making course.  I had been working on almost all the more dangerous machines during the day, but managed to damage my hand on a simple band sander.  I had switched from one sander to the one next to it, not realising that the support for the wood had a bigger opening underneath than the other one.  The piece of wood slipped through and so did my hand.  It got really stuck under the metal frame and I can tell you, it was a huge relief that I could wriggle all my fingers when my hand was finally freed....  I am now badly bruised and have lost a bit of skin on the inside, but I am using all ten fingers to type this, so it's not too bad after all.

Now it's back to the drawing board as I am trying to design another little cabinet.

Bye for now and thanks again for stopping by.

6 comments:

  1. Oh Marion, that is scary! Ik kreeg een rilling toen ik het las. Glad your injuries were not too bad. Another reminder that all machines can be dangerous.

    You've got a great workbench! And it has to be used...and then it gets cluttered :) That's just the way it goes.

    In answer to your question, no I did not take a class this time. Although strictly speaking that is not true, as I did take a class with Jens Torp, the weekend before the show. I'll show what I've made some time later on my blog. It needs a lot more work...a lot!

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  2. Ieks, dat was vast erg schrikken! Gelukkig is het niet heel ernstig! Heerlijk zo'n plek voor je machines!

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  3. I am glad your hand will recover I hope you won't have burn scars from the abrasion.

    I am sure the teacher was really shook up too. No excuses for the teacher, there should never have been a gap that wide on a machine being used by inexperienced students.

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  4. Hope you recover soon! Enjoying your blog very much :)

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  5. Glad you are healing up! Your blog is a really fun find for me today. I recently cleaned up my craft room too--it feels so good to clean out things I no longer need to make room for the new things I want to do. I look forward to following your blog and am so glad I found it today! xo Jennifer

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  6. Hi Jennifer, I noticed I can welcome you as a follower too. I have been too busy to look at or after my blogs, neither have I done a lot of miniing of late, but had a look at your blog and like what you're doing. Will go back sometime.

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