Hello all

Really glad you decided to join the fun. I learned some basic woodworking from a carpenter I spent a couple of summers with as a youth. Later in theater where we built sets and props. Then many decades of fixit projects around the house. Then starting about 2001, I got serious and began accumulating tools.

Then we moved to the Desert and had a 12x24 shed installed. My wife had an electrician run power out to the shed and I wired, insulated and put ply wood walls up. Today I have a pretty nice shop setup out there with all my wood prep stuff in the garage. Ran out of room in the shed shop.

Make a lot of picture frames for my wife's paintings (she's retired too), and have a fully equipped shop now, even some specialty, single purpose tools. Bought all the stuff I wanted while I still had income, so it's all paid for and they're really good tools.

All of this is laid out in detail in the attached pdf, called 17 Things That Accelerated My Learning Curve. It's kind of long, but lots of stuff in it that you might find practical and helpful. Just don't try to do all of it at once.