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    New to Forum, previous projects + future plans.

    To start off I will introduce myself, I'm Nick, a 20 year old college student with a passion for woodworking, vehicle restoration and modification and all other tinkering hobbies. I started woodworking in highschool about 5 or 6 years ago but was mainly focused on wood turning. I mainly made bottle stoppers, pens, and bowls. Here is a bowl I made that won some awards at a local woodworking show. It is Box Ellder Burl that I harvested myself from a tree in Ringgold, Georgia after a tornado passed through the town, It is has crushed turquoise in the voids and finished with polyurethane. The others are spalted walnut with a copper wire around the rim, and a small maple bowl and bowl made of a mexican hardwood called jobillo I believe.









    The real reason for me posting is that I am getting into fine woodworking using traditional hand tools for 90% of the work. I will be making small pieces of furniture, mainly end tables and maybe some coffee tables, using slab wood with live edges. I will be turning legs for tables, as well as still doing some bowls but mainly faceplate turning because I don't have enough saved up yet to splurge on a nice 4jaw chuck. I recently acquired a tool chest full of antique tools after a relative passed away. From what I can gather the tool chest itself is well over a hundred years old.











    I plan on restoring the handsaws and spokeshave. as well as get some of the chisels back in working order. I still need to find a few bench planes and a good dovetail and tenon saw to get started.

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    Nick - Welcome to the Creek! Nice variety of bowls! I really like the walnut with the copper wire around the rim. Looking forward to seeing what you turn next!
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    Welcome Nick. I sure hope you continue to turn as well as the other areas of woodwork you are interested in.
    I have a couple of saw handles in my shop that I got at a garage sale a few years ago. I think any one of them would be perfect for your restoration project. If you are interested I would be pleased to contribute it.
    Pete


    * It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for life - Sister Elizabeth Kenny *
    I think this equates nicely to wood turning as well . . . . .

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    Nice work. Don't feel limited by face-plates, you can make any project with face-plates that can be done on a chuck (some will take more time).
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