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

[Mark Buono]

This is as basic as it gets!  My first attempt at using a Kreg jig (K5).  Since my workbench is buried in the shed under a decade's worth of old decorations, I figured it would be easier to build a new workbench than to dig the old one out.  I still have to glue the top two MDFs together but you get the idea.  The only cutting tool I had to work with was a Bladerunner X2 Portable saw.  It's a fun, lightweight saw, but at the end of the day, it's a jig saw mounted upside down.  Some of the wood was a bit tough to cut perfectly straight.  I've since gotten a chop saw.  Also, the jig saw cuts for the shelf was a bit (a lot) off but the project was a fun initiation into what a total novice (me!) can do with the Kreg K5.  Now I have a workbench.  Next project is a series of garage shelf units so I can make room for it in the garage.

[Ron Priskie]

Good morning! My name is Ron and I live in Westchester County, NY. For those of you not familiar, Westchester is just North of NYC but there's still a lot of open space here. Trying to get back into woodworking and not sure which Kreg product to start with. Looking for some input before I call the company for their recommendations.

[Mark Buono]

Hi Ron,

I started off with the K5 system and a number of other little items, multi-mark, screw wheel, etc.  I have my eye on a couple of the Mobile Project Centers.  Just knocked out an 8' 4-tiers shelving unit for the garage last weekend.  All I had was the K5 jig system, a chop saw, tape measure (pencil), speed square and a drill.  Great little jig that K5.  Many improvements over the K4 and worth the money.

Mark

[Ron Priskie]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the info. Will begin looking around for the best deal.

Mark Buono said:

Hi Ron,

I started off with the K5 system and a number of other little items, multi-mark, screw wheel, etc.  I have my eye on a couple of the Mobile Project Centers.  Just knocked out an 8' 4-tiers shelving unit for the garage last weekend.  All I had was the K5 jig system, a chop saw, tape measure (pencil), speed square and a drill.  Great little jig that K5.  Many improvements over the K4 and worth the money.

Mark

[Larita P Willaims]

Hello everyone. Newbie here.

[Mark Buono]

Cheers, Larita!

Larita P Willaims said:

Hello everyone. Newbie here.

[Sebastian Pereira]

Hello there! My name is Sebastian and I live in Cordoba, Argentina.

I have been into woodworking for almost 3 years, and it's both a therapy and help in the house. I recently bought a Kreg R3 but I'm strugling with purchasing the screws. I just got the chance to request some to a friend that is travelling in the US, but it sucks to have to use the drywall ones.

I'll post the pocket joinery projects as soon as I have them, thank you for adding me to the community!

[Larry Grimes]

Hello, My name is Larry Grimes. I'm a retired aircraft electrician. I moved from Oregon back to Missouri to the farm that I was raised on. I built a dome home from a kit here on the farm. I recently bought a Kreg K4 pocket hole jig, it works great. So I guess I've got the bug and doing a few simple projects to start with. I'm still a beginner though. That is why I here to learn what I can.

[Joe Fleming]

Hi, Joe Fleming here.  Born and raised in Des Moines, IA, but have lived in San Diego, CA for 31 years.  Studied engineering at Iowa State.  

I started out as a flat woodworker, but have been primarily a woodturner for almost 20 years.  I'm doing some carving now too. 

I have a project right now to build some partitions with plywood that can be disassembled once a year, and pocket hole joinery seems like a good solution.  That's why I'm here.  Joe

[Roy Coulman]

Double reply.  Sorry.

[Roy Coulman]

Roy Coulman said:

Hi, Jerry.  I hope you've been getting lots of use out of your K3 jig in the past year.

About the sandpaper problem, I've gone through that as well.  I used to have a small sign shop and made lots of signs out of Plexiglas, usually 1/8" or 1/4" thick.  After cutting the blanks to size on a panel saw or table saw, I would sand the edges smooth and slightly round the sharp edges and corners to prevent cuts.  I used a router and router table occasionally, but it left the edges as sharp as a knife and they still needed some sanding.  So my tool of choice was a drywalll sander with a large comfortable handle and a thin foam pad under the paper.  You can imagine how those sharp edges cut into the sandpaper, leaving it in shreds while the grit was still good.

Like you, I got fed up with the waste and looked for something to keep the backing intact.  Packing tape was the answer.  Plain ordinary carton packing tape.  I covered the back of the sheets with it, slightly overlapping the strips as I went.  That proved to be the answer.  The paper didn't shred at all and I was able to use each sheet until the grit was gone, far longer than the uncoated sheets used to last.  Hopefully this solution will work for you.  Roy.

[Roy Coulman]

This message was a reply to Jerry Gilles' message posted on June 1, 2016, on Page 216.  I don't know how it wound up at the bottom of this list.  Sorry.