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macbrat:
I'm 80 this year. Am an ex Halton RAF apprentice - 68th Entry (Airframes). After my RAF service I worked with computers - CEng on hardware/software. Retired 20 years ago this month. Sharing my time in retirement between helping others with computer problems, tinkering in my woodworking workshop (mostly woodturning) and in my separate metalworking workshop (mostly making tools for woodturning), and providing English language conversation facilities for my Swiss and German friends here in Switzerland.

krv3000:
hi and welcume

micktoon:
Hi Macbrat ,
                  Welcome to the forum, nice to see someone else that likes both wood and metal, I have some posts with woodturning and woodcarving in them on the forum you should be able to search for. What type of woodturning tools do you tend to make ? I am planning on trying to make some woodcarving tools soon.
  Cheers Mick

macbrat:
Hi Mick

Re your post, I've just posted an article headed 'centre marking . . ' in which I use my metal working facilities for my wood turning projects.

Brian

Manxmodder:

--- Quote from: macbrat on February 03, 2014, 01:03:35 PM ---I'm 80 this year. Am an ex Halton RAF apprentice - 68th Entry (Airframes). After my RAF service I worked with computers - CEng on hardware/software. Retired 20 years ago this month. Sharing my time in retirement between helping others with computer problems, tinkering in my woodworking workshop (mostly woodturning) and in my separate metalworking workshop (mostly making tools for woodturning), and providing English language conversation facilities for my Swiss and German friends here in Switzerland.

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Hello and welcome Brian, You've certainly had an interesting engineering career and I can only hope that I will remain as enthusiastic and involved with projects as you are when I reach my 80th year(only another 28 years until I get there)

I joined this forum at the start of this year and I  have to say it's one of the best I've ever encountered with a very broad range of subjects and an abundance of good advice from other members  :thumbup:

Do check out some of Micktoon's wood projects,he does produce some really nice stuff  :drool:

I particularly like the carved Hare he did,click on this link below to view it:
http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,9129.msg102758.html#msg102758

Bye for now....OZ.

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