Last night - after a couple year's worth of rebuilding a barn to work in, a woodworking course, tool accumulation, tons of reading and asking questions, adding a 220 hookup for the table saw, saving pennies to afford all this, etc. - I got the table saw tuned up and made my first test cut with my new (to me) Grizzly 1023.
I tell ya, maybe it's just me, but that cut will stick in my mind forever. The smell, the ease of pushing the board through, the sound. And, I think the road to getting there makes it all the sweeter. There's maybe less than two dozen events in my life that are captured in that certain place in my brain.
Is your first cut similarly burned into your memory banks?