BlackGoatWW
Member
Hi All,
I grew up on farms and was always around tools and machinery, but all my experience was always patching and fixing things never truly building. About six years ago in my late 20s I started woodworking as a hobby and I quickly morphed from a big box store lumber builder to making furniture from rough sawn wood. After completely building out my shop, my most recent floor standing (and I think final?) tool was a lathe I purchased this past week. Ive played around a little bit and made a few scraps first, and now I have completed a few pens and a bottle stopper this weekend. I have some silly nuanced questions about bushings, making sure MT2 chucks are properly seated, etc. I picked up a few books that Ive been reading through as well. I figured I could search through the forums and get some confirmation on what I'm trying to understand or ask the guys with a lot more experience. As someone who has s primarily built furniture its pretty satisfying to start and finish a project within an hour ready to go. I run a little bit of a side business doing some commissioned work under the name Black Goat Woodworking.
I grew up on farms and was always around tools and machinery, but all my experience was always patching and fixing things never truly building. About six years ago in my late 20s I started woodworking as a hobby and I quickly morphed from a big box store lumber builder to making furniture from rough sawn wood. After completely building out my shop, my most recent floor standing (and I think final?) tool was a lathe I purchased this past week. Ive played around a little bit and made a few scraps first, and now I have completed a few pens and a bottle stopper this weekend. I have some silly nuanced questions about bushings, making sure MT2 chucks are properly seated, etc. I picked up a few books that Ive been reading through as well. I figured I could search through the forums and get some confirmation on what I'm trying to understand or ask the guys with a lot more experience. As someone who has s primarily built furniture its pretty satisfying to start and finish a project within an hour ready to go. I run a little bit of a side business doing some commissioned work under the name Black Goat Woodworking.
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