Good evening all. My name is Tom. I'm 51 yrs. old, a veteran, full time carpenter and part time woodworker.
To date, most of my woodworking projects have been of the simple variety - shelving/bookshelves & nice birdhouses. Nothing more complicated than a stopped dado every now and again.
Over the last couple of years, I've slowly been accumulating the tooling necessary to build furniture, something I've wanted to do for many years but have never really had the time or money to devote to it. Still don't actually, but recently my daughter asked me to build a toybox for my grandaughter, so I figured what better time to see what I can do.
When it comes to woodworking, I'm basically self taught. I've got a lot of woodworking books & when they don't adequately explain how to do something I turn to the internet and the near inexhaustable amount of information available. In the last few weeks, I've managed to glue up & make my first seven raised panels and am currently in the process of building a box joint jig for the tablesaw since I thought that would look really nice on the four corners of the toybox. I've done this joint before on my router table but didn't realize until all of the parts were cut that said table only has a capacity of 16" where I need to do 20". (Sure do hope I don't screw this up!)
At any rate, I've been having a blast learning how to do all these new things. It's also shown me several other tools I'm going to need down the road that would make the job easier. Definitely going to need a good dust collection system. That wasn't even on the list but after cleaning up the shop a little bit this morning with the shopvac, well, let's just say it's on the list now.
Been lurking here for a couple of weeks but hope to be a longtime contributor down the road. I'll be talking at you...
To date, most of my woodworking projects have been of the simple variety - shelving/bookshelves & nice birdhouses. Nothing more complicated than a stopped dado every now and again.
Over the last couple of years, I've slowly been accumulating the tooling necessary to build furniture, something I've wanted to do for many years but have never really had the time or money to devote to it. Still don't actually, but recently my daughter asked me to build a toybox for my grandaughter, so I figured what better time to see what I can do.
When it comes to woodworking, I'm basically self taught. I've got a lot of woodworking books & when they don't adequately explain how to do something I turn to the internet and the near inexhaustable amount of information available. In the last few weeks, I've managed to glue up & make my first seven raised panels and am currently in the process of building a box joint jig for the tablesaw since I thought that would look really nice on the four corners of the toybox. I've done this joint before on my router table but didn't realize until all of the parts were cut that said table only has a capacity of 16" where I need to do 20". (Sure do hope I don't screw this up!)
At any rate, I've been having a blast learning how to do all these new things. It's also shown me several other tools I'm going to need down the road that would make the job easier. Definitely going to need a good dust collection system. That wasn't even on the list but after cleaning up the shop a little bit this morning with the shopvac, well, let's just say it's on the list now.
Been lurking here for a couple of weeks but hope to be a longtime contributor down the road. I'll be talking at you...