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

[Stephen Wooldridge]

Janet Sadowski said:

Hello group. My name is Janet, live in South Carolina, and I am at the beginner level. I received a Kreg jig and a few other Kreg products for Christmas and a new table saw for my 60th birthday 3 days later. The way I'm gaining experience is to build shop items with the help of YouTube. My car now sits outside instead of in the garage and I'm enjoying learning. I have a new appreciation for the everyday things and how they are made.

[Becky Bresnahan]

Hey Janet,

I'm just across the river in Augusta!  It's always good to see fellow women woodworkers out there!  Have you checked out Ana White's website yet? It's slap-full of free plans.  http://www.ana-white.com/plancatalog

Becky
Stephen Wooldridge said:

Janet Sadowski said:

Hello group. My name is Janet, live in South Carolina, and I am at the beginner level. I received a Kreg jig and a few other Kreg products for Christmas and a new table saw for my 60th birthday 3 days later. The way I'm gaining experience is to build shop items with the help of YouTube. My car now sits outside instead of in the garage and I'm enjoying learning. I have a new appreciation for the everyday things and how they are made.

[TIM PEACHEY]

hi all I'm Tim from Ohio I have a few projects in hand and others that need doing I consider my self an starter/intermediate as I am by trade a toolmaker different material I know , I have completed a very nice out door addition that houses my built in grill and smoker, first time I used the kregjig, worked very well, I came here looking for ideas as I need to sort out my garage, new shelves and work benches etc. never knew this site existed once I return home I will post some pictures 

[Craig Rudd]

Hi, thanks for adding me to your world of woodworking. I live in Quebec Canada and have doing woodworking off and on for the last 30 years. Now that I'm am retired I have lots more time to get back into woodworking. I just purchased the Kreg 4 master jig yesterday and already have it up and running. I have a kitchen Island to build for a friend and a small cabinet and once they are built I'll post some pics.

[Rick Schultz]

Hi, my name is Rick and I live in Southeastern Wisconsin.  I have a custom services business.  I build custom items and provide a wide range of repair and maintenance services to residential and commercial customers. Most of my wood working projects use traditional joinery and glue.  Recently I was asked to build some custom storage units for basement alcove.  I am planning to use pocket screw joinery to construct these storage units and to build out several storage and organization items for my new shop.  I felt the Kreg system would lend itself to more modular type designs, quicker assembly and lower cost basis for this type of work.

My concern is how strong of a structure this method will offer and hope to learn proper pocket joinery design and assembly methods that yield high strength.

I own the Kreg K4 Master kit and the micro joinery set.

Guitar stand I recently built for a college student using traditional joinery and a few fasteners to allow for disassembly when moving.

[Janice Thomas]

[Janice Thomas]

Hey there!
My name is Janice. I live in West Point, Utah (30 mi. north of Salt Lake). I am a college professor and novice woodworker. I am a DIY blogger on my spare time. My favorite tool is the K4 my hubby got me 2 years ago. Since then I've been experimenting with wood building and I am hooked. I look forward to getting to know you all and learning more! I blog at https://sawdustsisters.com
and share tutorials of everything I build. My most popular project are my 2x4 barstools https://sawdustsisters.com/diy-barstool-using-only-2x4s/
Thanks for reading!!

[Kenneth Fox]

Hello, My name is Ken, I live in Columbus Ohio. I've done a little woodwork over the years, got a Kreg Jig and plan to do more

[Allyn P.]

Hey Ken from Columbus, I built this for a big fan.

[Michael Mull]

Hallo, I come from Germany and I hope you can understand my english :). It is not so perfect and I think some grammar is wrong.

So, the Kreg Jig is not very common here in Germany and I saw it on youtube and thought: boah, I have to test it. But that was the first hurdle (?) for me. Wher to buy it. I found some shops and I ordered a R3. But the second hurdle: the screw. For the table I need 2 1/2 ". Oh, inch an German. Metric system and inch. I´m not a friend of inch. So the calculator is my best friend :). And next step: build a workbench with kreg jig:)and hope to get a lot of tips here.

[Barry Cranmer]

Greetings Michael,

Your english is much better that my german, in spite of the fact I spent 14 months in Bavaria in the sixties working for my Uncle Sam. Enjoyed your country very much!

I'm just now buying some metric tools, but still haven't found a tape measure showing both metric and inches yet.

I used my kreg jig to stick some boards together and was very happy with the results.

Welcome!

[raymond]

hello my name is joe and i am from anderson indiana  i picked up my kreg jig a little over a month a go and i love it . i am building a cabnit for our bathroom useing pine slats they give me from work . my brother told me the other day that when i told him i was going to do this he thought yea right. but now he sees that its really nice and told me i need to build other stuff to . and i have a friend that wants me to build one for her and also a bed for her. i have my work cut out for me . all this from showing some pics of what im building. im also useing a torch on the wood a thing i seen my grt grandpa do one time when i a kid . he was a carpenter by trade and i think hed be proud of me and what im building . the only thing is im having a hard time finding plans i find pics but i cant find plans to go off of can any one help me  with what im doing wrong?