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

[Christopher Hansen]

Hello,

My name is Chris and I am in Elko, Nevada. Woodworking and being a DIY'er is kind of a necessity as I am a school teacher (not a lot of pay and soon to be less). Most projects are practical for around the house. Right now summer plans are to use my new Kreg system to build a new kitchen table and some shelves. My shop consists of clear blue sky and fresh air. At least there is lots of room and no need to clean up the sawdust! Forums like this are great for getting ideas and tips. I've already seen some comments that have helped.

[Kevin]

Hello Steve, and welcome.  Please post some photos of your shop tables asap...

Steven Oxendine said:

Hello, my name is Steve. Mt first project was an entertainment system for my sister about 25 years ago when I was in High School. Since then I have done small projects but I have been in construction building and remodeling homes. I bought a house about a year ago with plans to renovate it room by room and has been going very slow but nice (one man operation with some help on the side). there is an enclosed pole building here that I've been working on setting up as a woodshop. I've had the table saw, miter saw, drill press, router and other hand tools. So I bought a band saw and planer to finishmy collection for now. I bought the Kreg Jig to start building my kitchen cabinets but got a little side tracked with building shop equipment! I've built a beautiful router table, new table for the radial arm saw, new table for the drill press and a work platform for the Kreg Jig itself. Now that these things are done I can work on the cabinets. The Kreg Jib makes it so easy and fast to put things together without long setup times.

[Adrian Taylor]

Adrian Taylor from Charleston, SC. Got frustrated watching carpenters screw up my kitchen remodel and still had to pay them so I started with a step stool for my son, a friends daughter, and have orders for two or three more for family. I love the Kreg system (and was the only real choice for my step stools) and am looking to train myself up to tackle a built-in bookcase system next year. I am excited about picking up as many tips as I can and look forward to being involved in the Kreg community.

 

[fred wojick]

Hi all, I just joined and I just bought the jig. I am 47 and live in Massachusetts. I have been working with wood as a hobby for 30 years.  It took wood shop at my vocational high school.  I have heard a lot about htis jig and now I am going to try it.

[Steven Oxendine]

They are uploaded, Please take a look...

Kevin said:

Hello Steve, and welcome.  Please post some photos of your shop tables asap...

Steven Oxendine said:

Hello, my name is Steve. Mt first project was an entertainment system for my sister about 25 years ago when I was in High School. Since then I have done small projects but I have been in construction building and remodeling homes. I bought a house about a year ago with plans to renovate it room by room and has been going very slow but nice (one man operation with some help on the side). there is an enclosed pole building here that I've been working on setting up as a woodshop. I've had the table saw, miter saw, drill press, router and other hand tools. So I bought a band saw and planer to finishmy collection for now. I bought the Kreg Jig to start building my kitchen cabinets but got a little side tracked with building shop equipment! I've built a beautiful router table, new table for the radial arm saw, new table for the drill press and a work platform for the Kreg Jig itself. Now that these things are done I can work on the cabinets. The Kreg Jib makes it so easy and fast to put things together without long setup times.

[Flip Arnold]

Hello, my name is Flip and I live in Washington State. I have done woodworking off and on for about 15 years. I had always been interesting in owning a Kreg jig and finally bought one. I am playing around with it now and I intend to build kitchen cabinets next fall as part of a remodel.

[José Herminio Hernandez Ramirez]

Hi, I'm Herminio Hernandez, I'm from Mexico and I have closely followed their blogs, I hope to learn much from their projects and experiences, while sharing mine.

I am pleased to be accepted in the community, thank you very much.

[Al Phelps]

Hi, my name is Al. Finally got my woodshop moved from the garage to a 12'x20' Tuff Shed. One of my wife's wishes for Mother's day was to regain the use of the garage, just made it! I got the Master Jig for my birthday to help build rolling cabinets for my planer and router table, now I'm ready to build.

[John S.Lupo]

My name is John Lupo, live in Kissimmee, FL, retired 4 years ago from a frame shop I owned for 15 years... Always loved woodworking and now have a full small workshop. Like building small projects that use all my jigs and tools. Recently added Dovetail Jig, Porter Cable compressor nailer combo and many other tools like the Kreg Pocket Screw jig..

[Barry Collord]

Hello. My name is Barry. I'm retired and have enjoyed woodworking since 1982. I live in West Hartford, CT.  I love the lathe and do a lot of pen work, bottle stoppers etc. Have made two cradles so far (sister and daughter-in-law), clocks and other stuff. I have a basement shop,fairly well equiped. Bought a Kreg Jig out of curiosity after seeing a TV Infomertial. Hope to make new friends here Thanks.

[Ray Lattman]

Hi Barry, I'm ray from Wallingford. I am building furniture Dressers and desks.  I get my wood from woodcrafters in manchester. Do you  use another supplier? I have a shopsmith 510 set up w/ bandsaw,joiner and belt sander

Barry Collord said:

Hello. My name is Barry. I'm retired and have enjoyed woodworking since 1982. I live in West Hartford, CT.  I love the lathe and do a lot of pen work, bottle stoppers etc. Have made two cradles so far (sister and daughter-in-law), clocks and other stuff. I have a basement shop,fairly well equiped. Bought a Kreg Jig out of curiosity after seeing a TV Infomertial. Hope to make new friends here Thanks.

[Doug Rowland]

My name is Doug.  I live north of Dallas, TX.

 

I'm more of a "handy-man" type wood work.  I've built some furniture, but mostly I'm into building garden boxes, decks, fences, and things for my workshop/garage/wife's parking area.

 

My garage had been so messy, I couldn't do anything in it for a year or so.  I finally finished cleaning it out.  I've already finished a few projects.  Got a Kreg Master kit a few weeks ago.  Finally used it for the first time.  Really neat.