Scott Winners
01-08-2021, 12:38 AM
A bit more than two years ago I realized I wanted to become a better wood worker than I was.
I knew how to do STUFF but I didn't know how to DO stuff. Hope that makes sense.
Anyway, I searched the internet a lot, read a bunch of book reviews and ended up here. I had a Paul Sellers book from my wife for Christmas 2018, all the tools I needed to do all the projects in his book, and a desire.
Since I joined here I can not only sharpen my own saws (thanks to you) but I am equipped to discuss the various crosscut grind recipes promulgated by Lenoard Lee, Pete Taran, Bad Axe and Paul Sellers because I have one of each in service. And I can sharpen auger bits, and planes and chisels and gouges even.
FWIW I find Paul's crosscut grind the most versatile, my go to saw, but each of the others have merit.
My shelves of wood working books are closing in on my cookbooks for volume. As the crew chief of the youth BBQ team at my church and a lifetime bon vivant, that's a fair bit of books.
I appreciate how so many wood workers expert in various dissimilar areas of the craft can come together and share their knowledge, politely and respectfully. I have still not yet visited the metalworking subforum. I will make a point to do so, just to see what is going on in there.
I am going to donate more than six dollars this year. I will keep my mouth shut in areas I know nothing or little about, while I read enthusiastically in areas I am interested. I will stay out of the sharpening threads unless I see a total bonehead saw sharpening post I can correct from experience, after I calm down enough to do so politely. I will continue to view Derek Cohen as someone with a talent I will not match in this lifetime. I will continue to find my own path while each of you do the same, and I look forward to your updates.
I will probably need your help with my first dado in the next few weeks, and I have never yet made a rabbet.
I knew how to do STUFF but I didn't know how to DO stuff. Hope that makes sense.
Anyway, I searched the internet a lot, read a bunch of book reviews and ended up here. I had a Paul Sellers book from my wife for Christmas 2018, all the tools I needed to do all the projects in his book, and a desire.
Since I joined here I can not only sharpen my own saws (thanks to you) but I am equipped to discuss the various crosscut grind recipes promulgated by Lenoard Lee, Pete Taran, Bad Axe and Paul Sellers because I have one of each in service. And I can sharpen auger bits, and planes and chisels and gouges even.
FWIW I find Paul's crosscut grind the most versatile, my go to saw, but each of the others have merit.
My shelves of wood working books are closing in on my cookbooks for volume. As the crew chief of the youth BBQ team at my church and a lifetime bon vivant, that's a fair bit of books.
I appreciate how so many wood workers expert in various dissimilar areas of the craft can come together and share their knowledge, politely and respectfully. I have still not yet visited the metalworking subforum. I will make a point to do so, just to see what is going on in there.
I am going to donate more than six dollars this year. I will keep my mouth shut in areas I know nothing or little about, while I read enthusiastically in areas I am interested. I will stay out of the sharpening threads unless I see a total bonehead saw sharpening post I can correct from experience, after I calm down enough to do so politely. I will continue to view Derek Cohen as someone with a talent I will not match in this lifetime. I will continue to find my own path while each of you do the same, and I look forward to your updates.
I will probably need your help with my first dado in the next few weeks, and I have never yet made a rabbet.