Shire Woodworking Club – June 2017 Newsletter posted below. Great article with pictures about the club’s toymaking activities; unfortunately I am unable to attend due to work. The member profile is on Maurice Smith who actually contacted me via this site to obtain contact information and subsequently joined. The Sutherland Shire Council has been very […]
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:
Workshop Update – just two pieces of wood!
Finished one set of cuff links; or just two pieces of wood as my wife’s nephew Dylan remarked after I posted them on Instagram. Will complete some more with burls that I am in the process of sanding but wanted to see how one looked when completed. I need to get working on my […]
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – May 2017 Newsletter
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Not a lot happening in this months newsletter; some good looking items at show and tell but mostly turned items plus an article on hand planes.. There are always brain teasers if you are interested in these; most are reasonably difficult. Unfortunately two members died recently; […]
Shire Woodworking Club – May Newsletter
Shire Woodworking Club – May Newsletter posted below. I was not able to attend the club’s April maxi day so was interested in viewing the jigs presented by members; good photos and articles but nothing like actually seeing the jigs and hearing the comments yourself. Some great photos from the Sydney Royal Easter Show woodworking […]
The Traditional Tools Group Inc May Newsletter
See below the Traditional Tools Group’s May 2017 Newsletter. TTTG is a not-for-profit society interested in traditional tools and skills. Members include artisans and amateurs, tool users and collectors. Four issues of NEWS, the TTTG magazine, are published each year. See tttg.org.au for full details As you can see in the newsletter the society is […]
Workshop Update – trucks and cufflinks
Workbench status has not changed since last weekend. I don’t normally get much done during the week other than batches of gluing or small tasks. Workshop looks messy but two projects happening at the same time. The green file holds my loose sandpaper sheets. I am working on another batch of toy trucks for […]
Workshop update for Easter projects and to date!
Some old and new projects completed over the Easter break and last weekend. Finally finished updating my wife’s file storage cabinet. As shown below this is part of a built in wardrobe that she uses for storing cardboard files The main problem with this is that they fall over and are hard to get to […]
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – April 2017 Newsletter
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Not a lot happening in this months newsletter although good to see that the show and tell is featuring more woodworking items. [pdf-embedder url=”http://hugoswoodshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-Cubbyhouse-news-April-17.pdf” title=”2017-04 Cubbyhouse news April 17″]