Just dropping out of the shadows. I have been lurking here for a couple months, reading with great interest all the info the forum provides. I started in woodworking about 15 years ago as an apprentice custom cue maker. Long story, here are the cliff notes. I was in college and hustled pool in the summers to pay for the following years classes. I ordered a custom cue from a local cue maker. When I stopped in to make payments on my road trip rounds I would do some odd jobs...sweep the floor take out the trash etc. One thing led to another and I ended up working with him in the evenings after class. Two years later and my grades in the tank, my parents said build cues or go to school….I chose school and got my degree. After I got out of college a few of my old running buddies kept pestering me to build a cue. Fast forward to today $100K worth of equipment and a shop full of wood later. I am a part time cue builder and full time sales manager. I would put a link to a few pics but am not up to speed on the forum rules yet.
Last year I got the hankering to work in the flat. Started with a very bad chop saw and discovered old hand tools...OOPS!! I now build a few small side tables, am trying to hand cut dove tails that don’t look like a beavers chewed them and using hand planes. It truly is a SLIPPERY slope. I buy a few tools from Patrick and Josh . I am a user not a collector ( yeah right). Along the lines of collector, I frequent a few local ANTEECK malls and the occasional weekend flea market.
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Originally Posted by Klaus Kretschmar
