As far as wood working. I know I can create beautiful stuff but I take forever because I'm very bad at it. I'm willing to go rough cut and bad join and then hide it with exquisite routing edges and sanding and filling in all the gaps and then polishing and then putting a glassy shine on that turd.

I can use a drill to punch a hole through stuff but not accurately. Same thing with the jigsaw. I hate jigsaws. I love band saws but I'm not getting one of those.

So I've been watching various from the ground up videos like. Here's how to measure something and here's how to use the the speed square.

I was originally focused on the router since I enjoyed using that. That was fun and pretty.

But I didn't have any decent jigs and couldn't really do anything real with it. So I started researching that which then led me to the various others.

So basically it's time to really learn how to use my tools but do it in such a way that adds things to them to keep them going straight when I want them and at the correct gap that when I want them. I love little inverted tool tables. Strap a jigsaw to a piece of wood and flip it around and all the sudden you have a close relative of the usability of a bandsaw.

I don't mean just simply strapping something to something. I mean securing the blade with high-speed ball bearings to make sure it's a perfect cut. But do it simply and easily and cheaply.

Or how about a drop down drill press which you just walk around with and it's a couple pieces of wood with your drill hanging by a couple of springs. Nicely guided with a perfectly straight push and then it retracts itself.

I will quickly build a basic frame that collects dust for tools to drop into upside down after they've already been attached correctly to the supporting board and then I would have guiding rails on the other side. You get choices at that point. I just want to be able to do straight cuts that don't vibrate and I know I suck with hand tools for that.

I took apart several kitchen cabinets and drawers a few weeks ago and all that wood is sitting there for me to use. And in the case of the cutout table top, it's already there for me to put some legs on and firm it up.

I have a real table saw that I don't ever want to use if I can avoid it. I simply do not like table saws. Yeah I know I can push from very far away and have really good rails. But I'd rather have a saw that drops down the wall. The way Home Depot does it. That I can use.

So I'm going to build up my tool infrastructure kind of like a programmer, learning a language and building up subroutines that in turn will add to my skills for when I'm building what I want to really build inside the house. By then I'll have a huge amount of real wooden clamps and other simple easy to put together stuff that costs a huge amount of money that I made myself for the cost of cheap pieces of the hardware off of Amazon.

On the other hand, I've been researching bearings and there's a few high-speed lathe like devices I would like to build so that will require some real ones. Metal wall machine shop high-speed. But most of the stuff is just moving back and forth on rails so those are skateboard bearings. I'm getting both.

It's too damn cold for me to walk to the back of my property to use the woodshed for woodwork. It's too damn cold to go out onto my porch to do it. Screw that. I can do it in a little corner inside with hand tools turned upside down.

Sitting about 20 ft away from me. Just outside my sliding glass door. Too damn cold. A bit wet. Covered. Unused.

That's just one of many types of toys I'm looking at as far as wood shop stuff. Starting out as tiniest possible. Meaning a sliding ruler in a block of wood with a screw. I'll build from there.

Edit:

I'm in larval stage and I'm attempting to stay in it.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/L/larval-stage.html

I know where my dopamine comes from and I know how to drive it higher.

Here is how I described it to a friend of mine. We were going back and forth concerning the effort of the grow and that he commented: I'm having so much fun that he can't imagine me stopping when I actually harvest My reply was:

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And I'd much rather be doing carpentry. The carpentry is far more interesting. The carpentry allows me to build tools that enable me to do tasks that enable me to fix and create stuff that make my world both more functional and prettier. Woodworking has ever increasing building rewards with no end in sight. Woodworking is dozens and dozens of tools and variations of tools to learn and hundreds to thousands of jigs as each particular task has been solved 10 different ways and many people have put it on the web and improved on other people's. So it's up to me to find the middle ground of the effort to learn versus the cost and effort to implement versus the reward of what it produces and how often will I be producing that particular type of object in the future.

Now that's a run-on sentence. Put your editor cap on and break that one apart.

So no, farmer Crazy would love to stop being farmer Crazy. I'd rather be M's Jewish Carpenter.

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So that's why you see me posting these types of things. I am very active, doing lots of stuff, but I'm prepping for the next phase in my life, and I've been prepping for this for many years.

I did it before and it was shotgun trying things with no education behind it. Yes I can use that saw. But I'd rather not, yet.

I have time and I want to learn. I don't just want to create.