A good friend of mine, Juan, is from Argentina, and loves doing big Argentinian-style barbecues (“asado”) in his backyard. He asked me where he might be able to get a large wooden serving board – somewhere around 800mm x 400mm. As you can imagine, boards that size don’t come cheap!
So I told him I’d see what I could do for him.
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I went to Corrimal Timber‘s annual Celebration of Urban Salvaged Timber yesterday, and had a great time catching up with the guys and meeting some new people.
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A friend gave me a nice small log of wattle after cutting a tree down, and I was keen to have a go at milling it.
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At Kiama Woodcraft Group’s July meeting, David Bywater gave a detailed demonstration of his finishing process for boxes and other small items.
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At a club meeting a while ago, Tony Walsh brought along a bandsaw milling sled he had made, and offered a box of spare parts to anyone wanting to build something similar. There were no other takers, so I thankfully accepted the box.
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The Kiama Woodcraft Group’s annual Expo was held on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of March 2025.
Continue reading “KWG Expo 2025”John Daniel recently sent me this video of former KWG member and scroll saw master, Ted Hawkins, operating a pedal-powered scroll saw.
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On Friday the 13th of September, thirteen members of the Kiama Woodcraft Group tempted fate (or at least triskaidekaphobia!) and visited the Five Islands WOODtec school at Port Kembla.
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Lessons learned from my first time building a whisky cabinet from reclaimed timber and veneered MDF.
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