Shire Woodworking Club – March 2018 Newsletter posted below. Main article was on the visit by representatives from Feast watson and Cabots demonstrating their products. This was very good and well attended. A good chart showing the colours is included. The plank competition is coming up again; like last year it will be half a […]
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:
Recommended site from a reader
A readers mother recently sent me a great email as follows: I’m Amy, a stay at home mom. My son Jack has a fascination with woodworking. His great grandfather has done it for quite some time, so he knows a bit about it from him. He did some research on his own to show his […]
Shire Woodworking Club – February 2018 Newsletter
Shire Woodworking Club – February 2018 Newsletter posted below. The club had too much wood – what a disaster! There was a mess in the storeroom as shown in the photos on the front page of the newsletter; unfortunately I was unable to make the cleanup but probably a good thing as I would probably […]
Shire Woodworking Club – June 2004 Newsletter for Triton Owners Club of Oyster Bay
The Shire Woodworking Club used to be called the Triton Owners Club of Oyster Bay before the move to Lilli Pilli. Here is the June 2004 newsletter recently redistributed to show a profile on Doug Wickens who is the clubs oldest member and will be 97 in April; and he still turns up to Saturday […]
Shire Woodworking Club – 2017 in Review
The club achieved a lot in 2017, full details below but some highlights were: New kitchen installed at the club; great addition as old one was well past its use by date. Toy deliveries to the Child Life and Music Therapists at the Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Toys and items plus specific requests Santa Letter Box […]
Shire Woodworking Club – January 2018 Newsletter
Shire Woodworking Club – January 2018 Newsletter posted below. Geoff Tong was a deserving winner of the SWC Excellence Award; he makes some great items, mostly turnings. Other category winners were also deserving; one of these years I need to enter something! Numbers of entries have reduced since plank competition entries were excluded. Great turnout […]
Workshop Update – Pens and more pens
Unfortunately I had to be in NZ for most of November as my mother was dying; typically this was when I started selling pens! I managed to ship some between trips, delay some and got my wife and sister in law to post others. Another issue was that I forgot to remove a sold item […]
Shire Woodworking Club – December 2017 Newsletter
Shire Woodworking Club – December 2017 Newsletter posted below. Mostly about the Christmas donations and special Santa’s Post Box. Total toy donations of 1471 for year is impressive; some of these were my trucks! I didn’t make the show and tell this month as I was unable to attend the November maxi day as I […]