Hello from the USA

Up until a few weeks ago, I had no awareness of Australian woodworking tools. I have recently been fortunate enough to purchase a few superb old Titan firmer chisels from Luban White as well as to find the incredible tools from Chris Vesper, and in my online search for the history of Titan tools, I found this site.

I am an amateur woodworker here in the Lake Tahoe area of Northern California, about three years into it and I am starting to build Southwestern/Santa Fe style furniture from my own designs.

I am so proud to own these Titan chisels, and Chris Vesper makes the best marking knife I've ever seen.

Looking forward to learning lots here!

Welcome to the forum, From Tasmania Island State of Australia.
Cheers Bob

Welcome geoffreyb! :thyel:

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Originally Posted by geoffreyb

Looking forward to learning lots here!

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Don't forget to share......
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Some of us really like American furniture.
:cool:

Welcome Geoff. And it is the 4th July here, probably the eve of your big day of Independence celebrations given the International Date Line. Look forward to seeing pics of your work.

G'day geoffrey b and welcome to the nut house.:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

lots of good stuphph here and we appreciate your appreciation of our Aus. tools.

Welcome Geoffreyb nice to have you as a member.:2tsup:

Welcome, Geoffrey, indeed. You come from a beautiful part of the world it appears from photos.

Welcome, Geoffrey and happy independence day! Nice neck of the woods where you live.

Welcome to the forum . can't beat good quality tools

Paul K :2tsup:

Thanks for the warm welcome.

The Lake Tahoe area is indeed beautiful. With all of the custom home building that went on here over the last ten years, it is also home to a lot of very fine woodworkers, some of whom are good friends.

We are swamped with visitors coming up for the 4th of July, making for a very festive and playful weekend.

When I get some furniture finished this summer I will post pictures. Here are the Titan chisels I mentioned:

I just finished watching a movie called ZODIAC and Lake Tahoe was mentioned. Small world as I have now heard this placed mentioned twice in as many days :-)

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Originally Posted by Arry

I just finished watching a movie called ZODIAC and Lake Tahoe was mentioned. Small world as I have now heard this placed mentioned twice in as many days :-)

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The basic important things to know about Lake Tahoe:

As a financial community it was settled primarily by Hollywood money in the 40's as an elite place to go party.

Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Jr. had a fling at the Casino Bay Club.

The Squaw Valley Ski Resort hosted the Olympics in the 60's. Skiing is the Tahoe area's primary draw in the winter, mountain sports and partying in the summer.

Prior to that, it serviced San Francisco and the burgeoning Gold Rush years of the 1840's as a source of wood and ice. The entire perimeter of the 22 mile long lake was over forested to a point of simple baldness. The entire indigenous species of trees - sugar pine, red & white fir, jeffrey pine and western white pine - disappeared almost entirely to be replaced by lodgepole pine and less healthy white pine.

Close to Lake Tahoe is a summit point of the Sierra Mountains that served as a source of lake ice to be shipped down to San Francisco and other areas in the winter prior to refrigeration.


Recently, this area was one of the most active areas in America for the bad housing loans that have had such a disastrous effect on our economy.

And it is quite beautiful.

Welcome to the Forum.

Welcome to the forum.
I have pleasant memories of ski ing at Tahoe.
As to Oz tools, I will not bang the drum but let you find out gradually.

Jerry