Gday from Yeppoon

Hi all, thought i'd drop a quick hello. Have been lurking for a while - seems to be an incredibly useful forum as whenever I put a question into google this site always seemed to pop up with the answer.

Just getting into woodwork and am looking at getting the Woodfast Mini lathe. We want it to start making our own poppers for GT fishing. Been wanting to do it for a while but have only recently acquired the space - my first shed with power (the fact it came with a nice 4 bedroom house and double lock up garage to keep the cars away is just a bonus :p). I'm in a fairly unique position I suppose in that I really am starting from scratch as I don't have a big tool collection, no workbenches and 2 of 3 bays of the shed (one has boat) are virgin and ready to be kitted out. Any tips you'd pass on if you could start your workspace over?

Look forward to asking some questions and doing some more lurking, Travis.

Welcome Travis, and g'day. This site does seem to dominate because there are so many members and so many posts on so many topics. I've, so far, identified 44 countries involved. Also, the tone of the place is particularly helpful, and rarely is there any heated arguments.
I'm sure an answer/suggestion will come to you eventually. As far as setting up your shed is concerned, the first piece of advice I would give is to buy the right tool for a job as you require it - ie, don't buy a load of tools just to have them - this spreads your expenditure, too. The other piece of advice I offer is that you arm yourself with a goodish camera because we will all want to see your progress into the wonderful workshop hobby. Good luck,

soth

Welcome Travis. :2tsup:

Pardon my ignorance - what is "G.T" fishing.

I have a woodturning mate who makes his own lures
and reckons they are ok.

I have the Woodfast Midi (M305) - great lathe.

Allan

Gday Travis an welcome to the vortex.:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

Amazing just how many lurkers are lured in.:D:D

Soth has given you very sound advice. Quality over quantity any time. You may pick up quality second hand stuphph at sales and through the papers or various sections of theses forums.

Think about that lathe. You will eventually want to turn something that a smaller lathe won't handle. You can turn small items on a big lathe but not big items on a small lathe.

Hi Travis, welcome.
New at the turner front I see.
That's great, hope you'll like the mini lathe.
Good for smaller turnings, hope you can turn somewhat bigger things on that lathe.
Have fun with setting up everything, hope to see some pictures, very important for all of us.
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gt fishing - fishing for giant trevaley.

welcome aboard.

buy tools as you need them for each job.

this is how id do it.

i wanna build a 845mm x 2000mm Book Shelf.

Budget: $550

Materials.
2 - 200mm x 25mm x 2m = $70
9 – 200mm x 25mm x 800mm = $126
Hardware = $50

Req. Tools.
Handsaw = $25
Drill = $100+
Hammer = $25+
Square = $15+
Pencil = $2
Chisels = $30+

Total: $400

Tools that will make it easier.
Table saw = $1000+
Compound miter saw = $300+
Circular saw = $100+
Router =$ 100+
R O Sander =$ 100+

so you have $150 left over to upgrade to a better tool or get an extra one.

so u might wanna buy a router and bits to make cutting the slots for the shelves easyer.

Gday all, thanks for the replies.

Allan, as Weisyboy said - GT popping is that "art" of lure fishing for GT;s - GT's being Giant Trevally...I hope my attempt to attach one of my better "GTs" is somewhere around here. It is an amazing fishing style, and turned poppers lend themselves very well to that art (the style of lure i refer to is attached as an image...my favourite style the SKIPJACK - each is at least 150mm long and finished superbely in an OS sweatshop - as such the cost ~$AUS30 each. However there is a market for premium product and Australia is edging toward being on-par with some premium Japanese offerings, Fullscale lures for example can fetch upwards of $AUS90 a piece. In fact some "poppers" by well known Japanes fishing companies fetch well over the $AUS130 mark, I am very suprised the art is not more well appreciated by the talented turners amongst us...there's cash to be made.

The style of fishing is a great way to fish. In fact i hope this post proves a point of sorts. See below...

I like fishing, so when I say I went "GT Popping" I assume that everyone who likes fishing know what I means. Not just that - I assume that when I say I used 80lb tufline connected to a 130lb galis twisted leader by a 6 turn cats paw and attached to a skipjack 120 with baker rigged SJ-51's with a single Jobu 9/0 off the rear that you know what I mean. Quite obviosly you won't.

But yet that is such simple terminology to me that I assume everyone knows what i'm on about. Granted i'm a newbie but the point i'm making is that all the "summary" posts I read contain a lot of jargon that I, as a COMPLETE NOVICE, know nothing about. I'll make a new post shortly in the general discussion thread but hopefully you see what I mean. Stirring the pot - BEEFS (ie travis :-)

Travis...you've got me buffaloed with all that fishing tech talk, but would like to welcome you to the forums in spite of that.:U

Welcome to the forum. nice to have you here