Rick Lucrezi
12-17-2008, 11:04 AM
Howdy. Every once in a while I find myself with a dilema which I haven't the answer for, so like most of us these days, I do a google search. I found several answers in this forum, and so on occasion I come here when I have some down time and look over the posts to see if there is anything interesting to read. I have to say I have learned a few things.
I live in Southern Oregon near the Rouge River, I grew up in a small town of 1000 folks, family owned the auto repair shop and gas station so I started my carrer as a mechanic, joined the volunteer fire department and ended up building some wildland fire trucks before I retired from working on cars. I built three homes for my self on my own and that got me work as a home builder locally which is what I do now and have been for the last 7 years. I started collecting wood shop tools so I could improve my interior finish work and have started building some cabinets and furniture. I found that the later has really inspired me, so I have put alot of time, money and energy into a good functioning wood shop. Hence one of the main reasons for coming to this site. I am truely a novice, but I do have the patience and an eye for artitistic pieces plus I am not afraid to ask stupid questions. That being the main reason for the long post.
I hope to learn more along the way, and will probebly ask some stupid questions in the process, so I am hoping that knowing I am a relative newbie at cabinet and furniture making, any seemingly dumb question I post in the future is truely due to my desire to know something that I curently do not. Thanks in advance and off to the shop I go.
I live in Southern Oregon near the Rouge River, I grew up in a small town of 1000 folks, family owned the auto repair shop and gas station so I started my carrer as a mechanic, joined the volunteer fire department and ended up building some wildland fire trucks before I retired from working on cars. I built three homes for my self on my own and that got me work as a home builder locally which is what I do now and have been for the last 7 years. I started collecting wood shop tools so I could improve my interior finish work and have started building some cabinets and furniture. I found that the later has really inspired me, so I have put alot of time, money and energy into a good functioning wood shop. Hence one of the main reasons for coming to this site. I am truely a novice, but I do have the patience and an eye for artitistic pieces plus I am not afraid to ask stupid questions. That being the main reason for the long post.
I hope to learn more along the way, and will probebly ask some stupid questions in the process, so I am hoping that knowing I am a relative newbie at cabinet and furniture making, any seemingly dumb question I post in the future is truely due to my desire to know something that I curently do not. Thanks in advance and off to the shop I go.