Woodworking?

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I am definitely headed that way.  For many and varied reasons.  If needed, new cabinetry in the house.  Though certainly shop tables and devices, even if I simply do hobby work.  I am slowly filling out my electrical and mechanical tool inventory.  The bigger ticket items will just have to wait, such as the table saw and crosscut saw.  This month I purchased an oscillating saw and a jigsaw, plus what is needed for those.  Next on my list, probably, is a plunge/static router kit... one with enough power to do anything I might need in a home shop.  Then, hopefully, a a table saw.  Though, that isn't necessarily going to be the next few pay checks.  I could, but I burn out on buying tools, and need this or that for other projects, wants, and needs.

There are ways to work around a lack.  Jigs.  There are jigs for, probably, any tool.  Sometimes the jigs simply enhance or expand on typical uses for a given tool.  Sometimes they help one tool replace another, say a jig that might help replace a table saw.  There will always be holes in what any given jig can do in the way of filling in for another tool.  A bit of creativity helps, but it isn't always enough.  And, yet, one way or another, even without a prime tool, a job can be figured out.  It just might take more time, more effort, and their might end up more mistakes.  If, too, that is how skill is acquired.  You can make your jig, or buy a pre-made one.



I am already thinking of these things, and a few other things, some well in advance, for eventual attention.  Beside tools, the wood needed, the screws and fixtures... it all adds up.  Then, when you realize you aren't making a nickle on any of this, you realize you are spending... or I am spending... much of my open income on... spending more money!  Yeah.  Is there a chance that you could end up making money?  Maybe.  If someone happened to see or hear... and thought they could get your work for cheaper than they would otherwise have to pay... if the quality was good enough.  Though how many people seek out woodworkers any more?  Isn't it, like plumbing, electrical, and much else, actually far cheaper to tool up and diy than otherwise?  I can't afford much, as for the professionals, even at, in theory, dead level middle class.  I guess pros are only for the rich... while there are even fewer (if richer) of those?

One thing I'll have to, eventually, make is an outfeed table, and expansion, for my table saw.  Even if I could get a true cabinet saw, or a hybrid, I might well want at least and extension, though possibly and expansion.  I have looked at a number of options.  Following is a video example of what I have found interesting.  There are things I would change.  The original, to that, is split in the middle and modular so as to be portable.  Now, I don't need true portability... as to travel.  I would like to be able to take it down, or apart, for storage, or even other uses.  As a split system, I could see using it end to end as a bench, putting it together as an outfeed table, or even taking it apart to fit, height wise, in a place so as to have room for other tools or such.  I have been thinking about how to do this.

I know, I know.  I should just be happy that I am still alive, find a cool pond to live in, and a rock to hide under.  I just can't.  I don't know if any of this will ever happen.  I do know I am getting there.  And, after I get a wood shop going, I most likely will purchase a multi-welding kit... probably dual source (120/220), for portability and use in the house and other places which might not allow for 220.

Why?  Because, given time, I can.  :p  You... know this.  It is what I do.  Later.