New Members: Please Introduce Yourself!

[KregRep]

Welcome to the Kreg Owners' Community!
 
This thread is the best place to introduce yourself and let other Community members get to know you. Please include your name, where you're from, your experience building with wood, why you joined this Community, and any other interesting facts about yourself. Also, feel free to share links to your blog, personal website, etc.

Once you've introduced yourself, be sure to check out Helpful Tips for New Members.

We hope that you find great use and enjoyment from the Kreg Owners' Community!

-KregRep

[Mitch Graham]

Hi everyone, I'm Mitch, I am from Warrnambool, Australia. I plan to buy a Kreg K4 jig, I don't have a lot of experience with woodworking but I will never learn if I don't give it a go. I am thinking of starting with some simple storage shelving for the garage and will see how I go from there. Looking online it seems to be cheaper to buy a Kerg jig from Amazon in the US than locally here in Australia. Anyway, here's wishing everyone a great day and thankyou for such a great site full of helpful tips.

[James Dickie]

Hi,

My name is Jim and I live in the Low Country of South Carolina.  I'm retired and enjoy wood working.  I look forward to learning from y'all .  I have recently purchased the Kreg Rip Cut and the Kreg K4/Kreg Jig.  I just built a 2 drawer drill press stand and it came out beautiful.

[Roger Waskow]

Hi Mitch

Roger from Russell Island Qld. Enjoy the journey of sawdust making. You are on the right track. Get the best tools you can afford. You won't be sorry. An hours research (usually my hour turns to 5) will give never ending pleasure. Woodwork is not only putting 2 boards together. It is such a wide field. I do wood turning, carving and plain making something from recycled wood. I use good old cast iron machinery. The best as they are usually very true. Oh, and build a bigger shed. You'l need it in a while so might as well start now.

Regards

Roger

Mitch Graham said:

Hi everyone, I'm Mitch, I am from Warrnambool, Australia. I plan to buy a Kreg K4 jig, I don't have a lot of experience with woodworking but I will never learn if I don't give it a go. I am thinking of starting with some simple storage shelving for the garage and will see how I go from there. Looking online it seems to be cheaper to buy a Kerg jig from Amazon in the US than locally here in Australia. Anyway, here's wishing everyone a great day and thankyou for such a great site full of helpful tips.

[Chris McNamara]

Hi Mitch,

Welcome. I am over in Perth and have been using the Kreg 5 for about a year now and love it. Not sure about the cost on Amazon mate but the guys at the Carbatec store over there should be able to support all your queries.

Cheers,

Chris.
Mitch Graham said:

Hi everyone, I'm Mitch, I am from Warrnambool, Australia. I plan to buy a Kreg K4 jig, I don't have a lot of experience with woodworking but I will never learn if I don't give it a go. I am thinking of starting with some simple storage shelving for the garage and will see how I go from there. Looking online it seems to be cheaper to buy a Kerg jig from Amazon in the US than locally here in Australia. Anyway, here's wishing everyone a great day and thankyou for such a great site full of helpful tips.

[Joe Boyington]

Hello my name is Joe from the Gulf Coast of Alabama in Orange Beach.  I have experience in manufacturing resin coated table tops, CNC operation (SCM Author/Morbidelli), 3D CAD/CAM programs (Cabinet Vision, AlphaCam, Rhino, SketchUp), Laser Engraving machines, computer sign making (Corel Draw), printers and plotters...I've done a little or a lot of everything but consider myself a non-professional hobbyist. After 2 years working and training to operate CNC woodworking machines and software, I now feel like I'm better off on my own in my garage at home.  I work a full time job as a truck driver on a midnight shift and spend my days seeking the knowledge I need to build a successful business, gathering info about tools, equipment, technique, all the things I feel I lack adequate experience or an advanced understanding of.  Kreg tools have helped me develop a simple method of building everything and saves me a lot of time, producing the same or better results as building methods that are more involved. Glad to be a part of this community. Thanks.

[Roger Waskow]

Very nice

[John Connors]

Hi, I'm John from Newcastle Australia, I'm new to woodworking but enjoying it so far. I have Kreg Jig K5 and have found it easy to use. My main problem at the moment is cutting straight and accurately, hopefully I'll get better with practice. Because of the price of wood (unbelievably expensive!) I've been practising on old pallets and off cuts that my builder neighbour brings for me. Only made 1 practical project so far, a side table for my wife to display her pot plants and about to start on some bedside table soon.

[Roger Waskow]

Welcome John. I'm from Russell Island Qld. Cutting straight. Now thats something that is practice and if cutting by circular saw using all sorts of straight edges. Just google  "cutting straight with a saw" and there are heaps of tips. I am lucky. God gave me the gift. Now getting a flat edge with an electric planer. If I can get that right I'll be over the moon.

Roger

[Brian K Seitz]

Hello, My name is Brian K Seitz.  I live in Eatonville Washington.  I started woodworking more as a DIYer than woodworker and instantly got into using Kreg Pocket hole jig for most of my projects.  I had purchased the jig from a recommendation at Rockler in Tukwila (my go to store for most of my woodworking needs).  Since purchase I've fixed a butcher-block desk, build a set of book cases, china cabinet, and am currently tackling building a modified version of the router table in the Kreg video.  

I discovered the Kreg community site from Lumberjock site where most of my work is posted.       

[John Connors]

Thanks for the welcome Roger, I have a elcheapo Aldi table saw that I bought a couple of years ago because they had an over supply and kept reducing the price, when they got down to $39 I figured one day I might need one. It sat unopened until a few weeks ago. Anyway I've worked out that the saw blade is 222mm from the edge of the table so what I've been doing is marking the cut, measuring back 222mm and clamping a straight piece of wood square at that mark and using it as a guide. It works but is very time consuming. Would a compound mitre saw be a worth while investment?

[Roger Waskow]

Hi John

All depends on what you wish to do. I have a lot of wood working tools because I built most everything for myself and others. I reckon the first thing to build is a solid work bench. For that a handsaw is good enough but it's difficult to give you advice if I don't know what you are intending to build. If you come across a hand tool and you are setting up a workshop and the tool is a very good bargain by all means get it. This is what I mostly do and I use most of my tools on a regular basis bar a jigsaw. Can't even remember when I last used it. 

[Joe Boyington]

I have a basic panel saw and love it, never been fond of table saws, even though I believe eventually you'll really need to have one.  The panel saw was the first piece of equipment I purchased and it is pretty much my go to tool for most everything.