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First, you may have a natural talent for woodwork, or you may be like me - still learning over fifty years in. And, if like me, it's okay to screw up. Wood burns. So you can hide the evidence.
I graduated from high school in 69. My high school wood project was on display in the school woodshop decades after I left. The sign on it said, "If you did this, you flunked."
Comically, my shop pales that old school workshop, and the teacher who left me to strike out on my own looks like a novice, compared to me, and I was invited to a Paris art show for my work. So, I've made some things that people thought were pretty okay. That aside, I still build the occasional project that would get me flunked again.
Everything I have in the way of shop and tools, today, came out of a ugly greenish-yellow Black and Decker drill and saber saw that produced a few things other people bought and that decorated my meager home. That in spite of that the saber saw's ninety degree cuts fluctuated between eighty and one hundred degrees. And, the only router work I was able to do, initially, was via a gimmick bit that went in my drill.
These days, even Harbor Freight equipment would pale the tools I had, and there is far better, if it can be afforded. These facts, along with a better variety of materials (wood, finishes, etc.), and the Net, will make it possible to move ahead in the world of woodwork far quicker than a lot of us old farts did.
When you add the kind of desire that gets us through our first job and so on, you'll be well on your way to whatever it is you want to accomplish.
I graduated from high school in 69. My high school wood project was on display in the school woodshop decades after I left. The sign on it said, "If you did this, you flunked."
Comically, my shop pales that old school workshop, and the teacher who left me to strike out on my own looks like a novice, compared to me, and I was invited to a Paris art show for my work. So, I've made some things that people thought were pretty okay. That aside, I still build the occasional project that would get me flunked again.
Everything I have in the way of shop and tools, today, came out of a ugly greenish-yellow Black and Decker drill and saber saw that produced a few things other people bought and that decorated my meager home. That in spite of that the saber saw's ninety degree cuts fluctuated between eighty and one hundred degrees. And, the only router work I was able to do, initially, was via a gimmick bit that went in my drill.
These days, even Harbor Freight equipment would pale the tools I had, and there is far better, if it can be afforded. These facts, along with a better variety of materials (wood, finishes, etc.), and the Net, will make it possible to move ahead in the world of woodwork far quicker than a lot of us old farts did.
When you add the kind of desire that gets us through our first job and so on, you'll be well on your way to whatever it is you want to accomplish.
