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Just want to take a second to say hello.
I'm a commercial diver and have recently started getting in to woodworking again. I used to do some with my stepdad in his 2 car garage that he had taken over. I just recently bought a house and decided I would get back in to as a hobby and maybe to make some furniture and little projects around the house.
My first project was a wine rack out made out of cherry for my girlfriend
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While it was very fun and I learned a lot, it was also very frustrating due to the fact that at the time I was doing every thing in the back yard at my old house, (shop was a 4x4 closet to store tools in) and I was using a skilsaw to cut every thing and apparently I can not cut a straight line with a skilsaw. Everything had to be hand planed to get it back to straight after I cut it.
So we got the new house, got engaged and she got me a table saw as and engagement present :thumbsup:. That is when I found this forum we picked the Rigid r4512 based on a lot of review and comments on here as well as the fact that it looks the closest to what I used as a kid.
So now I am in the new house with the huge 12 x 20 shop attached and I'm loving it I built a pegboard tool rack I saw in a recent issues of "The Family Handyman". Finally getting some semblance of order in my shop. I'm working on a dart board cabinet at the moment, it's kinda of a jumble of woods, the back came from a pallet I ripped apart. The sides from some old deck boarding we pulled out and the doors will be from left over cherry and cherry ply from the wine rack build. I have been cruising the forums looking for hints on finishing as that will be my next step once I finish sanding the doors down.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I look forward to meeting y'all and learning what y'all can teach me.
~Chris
I'm a commercial diver and have recently started getting in to woodworking again. I used to do some with my stepdad in his 2 car garage that he had taken over. I just recently bought a house and decided I would get back in to as a hobby and maybe to make some furniture and little projects around the house.
My first project was a wine rack out made out of cherry for my girlfriend
While it was very fun and I learned a lot, it was also very frustrating due to the fact that at the time I was doing every thing in the back yard at my old house, (shop was a 4x4 closet to store tools in) and I was using a skilsaw to cut every thing and apparently I can not cut a straight line with a skilsaw. Everything had to be hand planed to get it back to straight after I cut it.
So we got the new house, got engaged and she got me a table saw as and engagement present :thumbsup:. That is when I found this forum we picked the Rigid r4512 based on a lot of review and comments on here as well as the fact that it looks the closest to what I used as a kid.
So now I am in the new house with the huge 12 x 20 shop attached and I'm loving it I built a pegboard tool rack I saw in a recent issues of "The Family Handyman". Finally getting some semblance of order in my shop. I'm working on a dart board cabinet at the moment, it's kinda of a jumble of woods, the back came from a pallet I ripped apart. The sides from some old deck boarding we pulled out and the doors will be from left over cherry and cherry ply from the wine rack build. I have been cruising the forums looking for hints on finishing as that will be my next step once I finish sanding the doors down.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I look forward to meeting y'all and learning what y'all can teach me.
~Chris
