(drunk post)
I have been negligent in keeping up with this thread and progress on my project but let me say, I've come a million miles since I started, spent a lot of dough and have tackled many side projects along the way.
I've always needed something to be passionate about and a way to express my creativity. I've done many things from advanced airbrush painting, to digital art, traditional art to learning the skill of driving a hardcore racing simulator while always challenging myself to do better or to learn more.
My journey into woodworking seems to be the next phase in my interests? Being raised by a farm girl with a lot of varied skills I seem to have inherited, I've always built things and been handy with tools.
I'm looking at my investment, a new table saw (my old one was 10 years old and shit), a 12" sliding compound miter saw, a 13" spiral cut thickness planer and the jointer I showed above plus a shit ton of other new and hand tools, like router bits, belt sander, Forsterner bits, pocket hole jigs, router table and two routers, a new orbital sander to replace my old Ryobi I killed, an HVLP paint sprayer (including airbrushes, I now own 6 different paint sprayers), chisels, sharpening stones, 3 new saw blades and on and one with a lot of little stuff that has added up to a small fortune.
But I don't care. I am considering all of this bucket list stuff and something I've always wanted to do well but never had the resources to pursue things as I wanted. As you get older, one begins to think about their mortality more and taking care of all and those I wish I woulda's takes on greater importance.
I'm still a few weeks away from finishing what I started but something I thought would be easy has morphed into something else entirely. I didn't realize how massive and how heavy this would be and how hard it is to move around things really too heavy for me to lift so that's set me back a bit toward achieving completion and moving on to something else.
I have all the tools now to make everything I want except maybe a bandsaw that has me doing my research and watching reviews. Do I want to go entry level, about $400 or go for something more professional? ($1200 to $1500) I am so fortunate right now this is even a question.
I have a ton of pictures to share but I've been so busy lately I haven't even taken the photos off my phone yet but with my recent work emergency winding down, I hope for time to do that soon and share where things are at now.
I have been negligent in keeping up with this thread and progress on my project but let me say, I've come a million miles since I started, spent a lot of dough and have tackled many side projects along the way.
I've always needed something to be passionate about and a way to express my creativity. I've done many things from advanced airbrush painting, to digital art, traditional art to learning the skill of driving a hardcore racing simulator while always challenging myself to do better or to learn more.
My journey into woodworking seems to be the next phase in my interests? Being raised by a farm girl with a lot of varied skills I seem to have inherited, I've always built things and been handy with tools.
I'm looking at my investment, a new table saw (my old one was 10 years old and shit), a 12" sliding compound miter saw, a 13" spiral cut thickness planer and the jointer I showed above plus a shit ton of other new and hand tools, like router bits, belt sander, Forsterner bits, pocket hole jigs, router table and two routers, a new orbital sander to replace my old Ryobi I killed, an HVLP paint sprayer (including airbrushes, I now own 6 different paint sprayers), chisels, sharpening stones, 3 new saw blades and on and one with a lot of little stuff that has added up to a small fortune.
But I don't care. I am considering all of this bucket list stuff and something I've always wanted to do well but never had the resources to pursue things as I wanted. As you get older, one begins to think about their mortality more and taking care of all and those I wish I woulda's takes on greater importance.
I'm still a few weeks away from finishing what I started but something I thought would be easy has morphed into something else entirely. I didn't realize how massive and how heavy this would be and how hard it is to move around things really too heavy for me to lift so that's set me back a bit toward achieving completion and moving on to something else.
I have all the tools now to make everything I want except maybe a bandsaw that has me doing my research and watching reviews. Do I want to go entry level, about $400 or go for something more professional? ($1200 to $1500) I am so fortunate right now this is even a question.
I have a ton of pictures to share but I've been so busy lately I haven't even taken the photos off my phone yet but with my recent work emergency winding down, I hope for time to do that soon and share where things are at now.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.