Hello, I am new to this forum. Since three (a bit more) years I began to build wooden things for myself and my family.
I am a hand tools lover, working evenings and during the weekends, but I also own some power tools, a little band saw, CMS, orbital sander, drill press, anything should be in a small shop (mine is in the basement).
I am from Italy, so, please apologize me and my poor english, I will try my best to learn either woodworking techniques and english.
My age ? 40 but still for very few time.
Best regards to everyone
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Welcome and your English is just fine. No one should ever need to apologize for their fluency in a second language. What kind of woodworking do you like to do?
Doug
Up to now I built:
a dovetailed box to store crosstitch stuff for my wife,
a bookcase to fill a space end to the stairs,
a design clock (you can see this at http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/badeyemoody/my_photos click on "Orologio")
a workshop station for my drill press with four drawerssome other little stuff As you can see, my woodworking is quite general. I do it for my pleasure (I love wood so much) and to have something that perfectly fits my needs.
I've also a lot of projects I will do sooner or later, but priority begins to be wife driven ...
In the meanwhile, I am trying to build a new shop ... because I am using my home basement.
Thank you for your interest._______________
Alastar Moody
Alastar,
The clock is really cool. Where did you get the idea?Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
A friend of mine showed me a similar clock he bought from a designer that sells them from the south of Italy. You can see their products here: http://tondadesign.it/articolo.asp?id_articolo=59&id_collezione=2&page=oracoloro&collezione=Oggetti
Anyway their design is too much colored for my interior design and I decided to build a similar one with inlaid hour marks.
I installed a clock movement with pendulum (like this one http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=3&p=32903&cat=1,42405,42409&ap=1 ) and, because the curvature of the front panel, I messed up with some scraps to put the cherry pendulum in front of the panel.The front panel is mahogany plywood (about 4" wide) inlaid with beech, while the stretcher behind is solid mahogany 1,1/4 by 3/4 (sorry but measures are approximate because the metric system)
The clock is about 32" (83 cm) tall._______________
Alastar Moody
Ciao Alastar,Benvenuto su questo forum, dove sei in Italia ? Io è un bel po' che non ci sono tornato.
Ho un po' di nostalgia, soprattutto del mangiare e naturalmente del vino.
Bevine alcuni bicchieri alla mia salute !C.
Ciao, io vivo a Roma. Per quanto riguarda il vino, ne bevo poco, e sempre in buona compagnia. Comunque in california ne ho assaggiati di ottimi.For the english people:
Hi, I live in Rome (Italy). About the wine, I drink a little, always with my friends. Anyway, I tasted very good wines in California.Bye_______________
Alastar Moody
Ciao Alastar Moody,
Parli bene l'inglese.
Benvenuto al nostro foro "Knots".
E' un buon posto per imparare "Fine Woodworking".
Mi piace molto il tuo orologio.
Mi dispiace ma non parlo bene l'italiano. Sono americano ed abito con mia moglie a Virginia, vicino a Washington, DC. I miei quattro nonni erano italiani (da Tortona e da Bari).
Come si dice "Fine Woodworking" in italiano? "Buona falgenameria"?
A presto,
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
Mel,
You continue to amaze me.Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Rennie,
I learned to write (not well) in Italian in order to do genealogy research. It turns out that one third of the people with my last name live in the US, one third in Italy and one third in Argentina. Either I learned some Italian or I couldn't find out anything. What I found was astounding. It turns out that all of those with my last name can trace their ancestry to the vicinity of Tortona, Italy. We can't prove we are related, but all indications are positive. Actually I found a few "relatives" in Spain, France, Australia and South Africa, and they all trace back to the area around Tortona as well. So far, I am the only woodworker in the group. This should prove conclusively that there is no "woodworking gene". :-)
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Wow, I by no means speak Italian but am unfortunately (my brain doesn't work in two languages) am studying Spanish in school, its neat to see the similarities such as "how do you say?" is almost exactly the same in Spanish and Italian except for some spelling differences. Good work on that clock and your English by the way.
-Ryan
Should you come in Italy, you could do further genealogy researches directly into birth and wedding registers kept in the churches. If the latter did not suffer any accident (fires, flood ...) you could easily dig back a couple of centuries. Be prepared to read hand writing (there were no typewriters) and to take note about nicknames and patronymic (do it spell like that ?) because often in small places people were recognized by their nick, inherited by the sons and daughters._______________
Alastar Moody
Io direi ebenisteria !C.
Ciao Citrouille,
ho capito bene. Ebanisteria.
Dove hai imparato parlare italiano?
Grazie,
MelFor those of you who do not speak Italian, I recommended the Lie Nielsen shoulder plane over the Veritas, and discussed the relative benefits of a shoulder plane and a router plane in paring tenons. Then I discussed left and right wing politics in Italy as it pertains to discrimination towards fair-haired Italians. Finally I discussed the relative effects of age on creativity in men and women. :-)Actually, Citrouille told me that the word for "Fine Woodworking" is "ebanisteria". I told him that I understood and asked where ge learned to speak Italian. I looked up the word "ebanisteria" in my Italian-English dictionary and it says "cabinetmaking" or "cabinetmaker's workshop". No doubt about it, Citrouille knows how to speak Italian.Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
Mel,Ho imparato l'italiano direttamente a nord di Tortona, dall'altra parte del confine, da dove vengo: Lugano.
Sono qui negli SU da più di vent'anni.C.
Thank you for compliments about my clock, but it was not a difficult job, just looking good when finished.Your italian is very good as for the Citrouille one.And yes, the Fine Woodworking word translates into "Ebanisteria", while Carpentry refers to more general "Falegnameria".
We also have a similar word: "Carpenteria" but it refers to building construction woodwork (a bit rough work).Sorry for my late answer, but our time zones are slightly different ;-)_______________
Alastar Moody
Hello Alastar:
I joined this forum at the same time as you! I plan to do some cabinets for our new (actually quite old by US standards 1910) house; kitchen, closets and entertainment.
Good luck with your projects.
Hastings
Welcome to Knots!
wish my Italian was as good as your english
Wicked Decent Woodworks
(oldest woodworking shop in NH)
Rochester NH
" If the women dont find you handsome, they should at least find you handy........yessa!"
Welcome, and you don't need to worry about your english, there are a lot of us Americans on here and we don't speak english very well either.
Jack
Thank you for you encouragement. Here in Italy, we have the same problem. Anyway I'll try to do my best, because I believe a language well spoken (here written) is the only way to explain our ideas and specifically, to describe woodworking procedures, tools and whatever related with a traditional profession which cannot take advantage on modern neologisms.And please, correct me without hesitation.
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Alastar Moody
Edited 8/18/2006 4:08 am ET by alastar moody
I think you are right about the value of language. I have to work harder these days than I used to just to use english properly.
I can't imagine being fluent in a technical sense in another language.
I salute you
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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