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Stumbled on this website by accident following a link to Mike G's workshop build thrred and jolly glad I did.
I know pretty much nothing about wood work and have virtually no woodworking kit, but a keen and growing interest and a hope that impending (semi) retirement will give me the time to indulge new hobbies. Sadly nothing from my working life provides any useful skills to fall back on as I have always worked in finance.
So far my woodworking experience is limited to a garden table and a store for my firewood, both built from mainly scrap timber with my only real tool, a mitre saw, lots of screws and a fair bit of swearing as I learned from my (many) mistakes.
I have always taken the view of 'in for a penny...', so my plan is to build a workshop straight away, rather than try and make do with the garage which is already full to bursting with anything you can think of, except a car of course. Very happy to see a couple of workshop build threads and hoping to learn a huge amount from these that I can apply to my own build. Once I have that built I'll be looking at a number of further projects including outdoor items such as a pair of garage doors and smaller, indoor items such as book cases.
I've already been made to feel very welcome in the community and only hope that one day I may know enough to be able to pass on help and advice to others!
Terry.