Nollie

Potgietersrus, Limpopo Province, ZA
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I have a small shop with two workers.I am a self tauhgt woodworker. At first we did kitchen cabinets and allso office cabinets.Lately i have done some furniture using wood from Africa, this was very fulfilling doing my own design.

Gender: Male

Birthday: 09/22/1953

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Greene & Greene Bar Stool

May 7, 2011

My first G&G Bar Stool. I used African mahogany with African blackwood for the pegs. The stain is a cherrywood gel stain with a poly-wax topcoat. Upholstery is high density foam on a plywood base.

Greene & Greene side chair

May 7, 2011

This G&G side chair i made with African Mahogany. I used a cherrywood gel stain with poly-wax topcoat. The pegs is made from African blackwood


Recent comments


Re: UPDATE: Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers - The Basics with Dave Richards

Sketchup is the best tool to design furniture. It is fast to use. The thing is to know HOW! This DVD can help a lot to know more to do the finer detail in design work

posted: 11:03 pm on April 24th  

Re: CutList 4.1.1 -- A More In Depth Look

Thanks Dave for that information. It works really good. I worked in Bay City Tx during 04 and 05. I can say that u folks out there are A+. I enjoyed the stay. But had to come back because of family obligations. Would like to go and work in the Us if situation permitted
Thanks
Nollie

posted: 12:06 pm on April 12th  

Re: CutList 4.1.1 -- A More In Depth Look

Thanks for all the posts on this Blog. i learn a lot from it. I wish i could stay in the US , every thing woodworking is there.
I have a problem in assigning a material to a component. I designed a eight legged G&G table and i use three different woods. How do i go about to assign mahogany to some components and ebony and popular to other so it appears in the material column in the cut list.Maybe i am just missing it somewhere or is there an existing post that explains.
Thanks
Nollie

posted: 8:32 am on April 9th  

Re: CutList 4.1.1 -- A More In Depth Look

Thanks for all the posts on this Blog. i learn a lot from it. I wish i could stay in the US , every thing woodworking is there.
I have a problem in assigning a material to a component. I designed a eight legged G&G table and i use three different woods. How do i go about to assign mahogany to some components and ebony and popular to other so it appears in the material column in the cut list.Maybe i am just missing it somewhere or is there an existing post that explains.
Thanks
Nollie

posted: 8:31 am on April 9th  

Re: Announcing Fine Woodworking's Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers--The Basics

Congrats Dave.
This will be a very helpful aid to many a woodworker !

posted: 12:14 pm on March 24th  

Re: CutList 4.1.1 -- A More In Depth Look

Hi Dave,
This plug in works very good when doing furniture. My problem is that when doing sheet goods there is no sizes that matches our sizes in SA.I do some kitchen cabinets from time to time. Our sheet goods sizes are different than that of the USA. We have a size of 1800 mm X 2700 mm.Is there a way that i can maybe change the sizes in Cutlist to accommodate our sizes. Very rarely i use the 1220 X 2440 sizes
Thanks

posted: 1:00 pm on February 25th  

Re: Building a Mystery

Wow!! Wonderful execution .It is a beautiful piece indeed.

posted: 9:28 am on February 19th  

Re: Kitchen Cabinets - The Engineer's Way

Hi Tim,

I am building kitchens for a living. I want to design a kitchen in SU so that i can present it to my client for approval. How can i 'save' all the different cabinets in the same file so that i can pick them and stack them together in the way the kitchen is designed. I also want to design the cabinet doors and drawers in different designs and woods to also snap onto the cabinets. The doors and drawers must be separate of the cabinets.
I am in South Africa and we work metric. You can explain in imperial- i grew up in imperial.
Thanks for all your contributions over the years

Regards

Nollie

posted: 12:42 pm on February 12th  

Re: Black walnut octagonal dining table

Very nice work inddeed !!

posted: 4:22 am on September 25th  

Re: Printing Templates--Two Approaches

Hi,
I have a problem to print templates. Maybe i am missing somthing. How do you create your registration marks.
Thanks Nollie

posted: 8:50 am on September 22nd  

Re: New SketchUp Version 8

Thanks that worked ( print reselution)

posted: 1:21 pm on September 11th  

Re: New SketchUp Version 8

Hi,

I have one problem with Sketchup 8
When i print from Sketchup 8 the lines are jaggered and not smooth like in Sketchup 7 What can i do to solve this problem. I have already opened version 7 files in version 8, so i can not go back to version 7 whith these files

posted: 1:19 pm on September 9th  

Re: An Upholstered Chair Cushion

Thanks very much David. It is very handy to have Folks like you and all the others on the web to help out. Here in SA it is learn all by your self.
Nollie

posted: 12:38 pm on June 18th  

Re: Lessons in Teaching SketchUp to Woodworkers

Yes Dave that is the apholstered seat cushion . It is for the drop-in seat for my dining side chair
Thanks
Nollie

posted: 2:25 pm on June 8th  

Re: Lessons in Teaching SketchUp to Woodworkers

Hi Dave
Thanks again for that leg indent tutorial. Is it possable to show how to do a "pillowed" drop-in seat for the chair i designed with the Blacker leg indent. The seat will be narrower at the back and wider in the front.
Thanks
Nollie

posted: 12:46 pm on June 7th  

Re: The Blacker House Chair Leg Detail

Thanks Dave for responding on my request. It would help to make my designs look more like the real thing.

posted: 1:24 pm on June 2nd  

Re: Lessons in Teaching SketchUp to Woodworkers

Hi,

I am drwawing in the Greene & Greene style and would like to know how to draw the Blacker chair leg indent. Is it possable to show how to
Regards Nollie

posted: 1:45 pm on May 27th  

Re: New Study Discusses Tablesaw Injuries

Hi,
I never thought that i would have a acsident on the table saw until last week. You can have all the safety features thinkable but if you do not consentrate on what you are doing you wil have a acsident. I let someone els destract me while i was buzzy cutting a dado and i must say that i was in a hury. The next moment my hand jerked AND NO MORE THUMB. Consentrate on what you are doing, that way you will make use of the safety features that is available.DO NOT BE IN A HURRY!!!!
Nollie

posted: 11:33 am on February 24th