I’m Simon, and I just joined as a member last week after coming to the open evening. Good to meet folks there, and looking forward to meeting many more! (In fact weather and work willing, I’ll try and come by the electronics evening today for a quick bit.)
My main interest is woodworking, so I’m joining firstly to have access to some of the larger machines (thicknesser! big CNC! ) and secondly to have a community of people to talk to and have folks in the workshop with me when I’m working on things.
I’m also keen on doing a little bit of everything else, I’ve recently enjoyed some computer-aided embroidery and do the occasional bit of 3D printing and electronics projects. I work as a software engineer, so any way I can get a computer to help me out with a project is good. (CNC! ) Also looking forward to being able to help out with any tasks/maintenance jobs that need owners once I’m up and running, or any work on Arch 2 that I’m able to do.
Since I claim an interest in woodworking, here’s the obligatory picture of a chopping board in progress! (Yup, track saw cuts weren’t perfect so I have a major sanding job ahead of me… )
Hi @Kyle, thanks for your tour the other day! No my home embroidery machine is just a hoop and I haven’t really got the talent. I borrowed the use of a fancy machine when I wanted to do something proper.
and ouf I also tried machine embroidery (not computer aided) and gave up quickly! The level of precision and juggling the left/right front/back confusion it was producing in my brain was hardcore. I went nope, one day I’ll get a computer to do this =D
Thanks @morgoberts! Do you mean every other “slice” looking slightly different? I hadn’t spotted that, but yeah! I think it’s a trick of the light. The board is 2 length each of walnut, maple and cherry, and then every other one flipped over (so same woods in each slice).
I actually ended up keeping it in stripes rather than checkerboard for the full glue-up because that’s the look my wife preferred. But I’m gonna do a smaller one soon with the checkboard.
Nice, yeah I wondered if it was all one wood but walnut maple and cherry sounds like the full works… Looking forward to seeing a pic of that end-grain with finish on it! Also good to meet you briefly on thursday
) and secondly to have a community of people to talk to and have folks in the workshop with me when I’m working on things.
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