Finally managed to make it back to the The Cubby House Turners Woodies in Sydney in December (last visited in June) and organised getting the email newsletter. I have created a Cubby House page with older newsletters that will get updated gradually. This was a purely woodturning club when I joined years ago but after the Shire […]
Author: Gary
I am an accountant who uses woodwork as a way to escape computers. I work in the back half of a tandem garage under the house; effectively a basement that also houses my wife’s car. I have a reasonable set of tools and am getting more into hand tools, mainly due to the lack of noise and dust minimization.
I live in Sydney Australia and am a active member of The Shire Woodworking Club, Cubby House Turners & Woodies Inc and The Traditional Tools Group Inc
Why Hugo’s Woodshop?
All decent website options with Gary were taken so I had to look for something else!
Hugo is our 3 year old Ragdoll cat who is very nosy and likes investigating the garage / workshop:
Shire Woodworking Club Annual Excellence Awards
Unfortunately I was unable to attend the December maxi day. The club held its annual SWC Excellence Awards submission and judging as well as the Christmas party. There were 41 attendees including 3 guests which was a good crowd out of a total membership of 72. The number of entries was not as high as in previous […]
680 charitable toy & item donations by Shire Woodworking Club in November
The Shire Woodworking Club has been very busy recently preparing for 123 Christmas toys and item donations to local charities and the final year delivery of 557 items to Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. This is the 18th year the Club has donated toys at Christmas to Shire Community organisations. This year the club donated 123 items to Sutherland […]
Finished toy trucks for charity Christmas gifts
Finally finished some toy trucks for charity Christmas gifts; had 4 partially finished from last year – they had a couple of coats of paint as shown in the photo below. Had a variety of wheel sizes from Shire Woodworking Club so this dictated the truck sizes. Good way to use scraps of wood and […]
Woodworking drill press injury but not from the drill bit
Drill presses shouldn’t be a dangerous tool when used correctly for woodworking. I wasn’t hurt by the drill bit but by the toy truck getting caught and spinning into my hand. I was only enlarging the axle hole not making a new one so thought that it was a simple task. This happened on the […]
Shire Woodworking Club – 2016 Plank Competition
This years plank competition results are on page three in the attached newsletter. Category A is for previous winners; they can use other wood rather than the pine plank. Category B is for previous 1st and 2nd placed entries in Category C Category C is for all other entrants My entry would have been in […]
Workshop Update – Toy trucks for charity and some pen turning
Working on the toy trucks for Christmas charity donations; have glued up all the bodies now need to paint them and add the wheels and fenders. Not looking forward to the painting so will try spray cans first. Trucks will be a single colour, either red or blue at this stage. Also managed some turning, […]
Haven’t managed much shop time recently.
Have had a lot on recently so have not managed to get anything completed hence the frozen in time picture! Have managed to sharpen a couple of roughing gauges for turning but as it has been so long since I used my Tormek I had to watch the video’s to refresh my memory. All worked […]