http://www.woodworkireland.com Resources for Woodworkers in Ireland Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:30:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just found an excellent woodworking blog; the Treewright Bodger. He deals there with "Woodturning on the pole lathe using hand tools and freshly felled timber", which I find fascinating, as I've always considered turning green timber to be madness - what do you do when it dries and warps? ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2008/08/29/treewright-bodger/ Rising oil prices are soon going to have an effect on timber prices - indeed, with a lot of retailers and stockists, they already have. The main problem, obviously, is transport - the further away the timber comes from, the more petrol or diesel is involved in moving it. Timber ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2008/08/10/sustainable-irish-timber/ There are various levels of quality available in wood chisels, like any other tool. No matter what kind of chisels you have, they're going to need to be sharpened. In this post, I'll try to explain how to take care of chisels, and explain what you need to do to ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/05/17/how-to-sharpen-woodworking-chisels/ There's a fascinating tutorial up on harpmaker.net, about making Celtic Harps. It's considerably more detailed than I expected, and goes to thirteen chapters, with illustrations and some of the maths explained. It's well worth reading if you've any interest in making instruments. http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/04/30/how-to-make-a-celtic-harp/ Tiernan Roe, a graduate of the Indiustrial Design course in NCAD, has started a blog detailing his woodworking projects. The site is very well-illustrated, and worth reading in detail. http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/03/22/tiernan-roe-woodworker/ I'm just clearing out the tabs of my browser here, and finding a few articles that I want to post. The first of these is a link about maintenance of table saws. The article is ten years old, but it's every bit as useful today, and it covers cleaning, adjustment, ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/03/22/table-saw-maintenance/ A letter recently circulated from timber merchants Brooks Group says that they're having to raise the price of softwoods. This is due to the mild winter in Scandinavia, and consequent inaccessibility in lumber areas - essentially, the machinery is sinking into soft ground that would normally be frozen. It's expected ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/02/06/brooks-raise-scandinavian-timber-prices/ And while I'm making a bunch of posts, I've also found that the Irish Woodturners Guild have a website, which is frequently updated, and looks very useful. I'll be adding that to the links on the site, of course. http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/01/24/irish-woodturners-guild/ I've just discovered that DIT in Bolton Street do courses in woodturning and woodcutting machinery - that last to the standard of Junior Trade for the Department of Education and Science. Might be of use to someone! http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/01/24/woodturning-and-woodcutting-courses-at-dit/ I'm looking to put together a listing of woodworkers in Dublin. Other listings will follow for different areas, but I'm starting where I live. So if you're doing any kind of professional woodwork in the Dublin area, please drop me a line - a comment on this post is fine, ... http://www.woodworkireland.com/2007/01/24/dublin-woodworkers/