How Long have You been on the Creek?? Woodworking??

[Rich Riddle]

I am coming up on my third anniversary next month. How long have you folks been on the Creek or woodworking in general? I have butchered wood for a while, but some of you "advanced" folks have eons on me.

[Keith Outten]

Rich,

This Wednesday (Feb 11, 2015) is SawMill Creek's 12th anniversary and obviously my 12th anniversary. My userid here is number 2. Number one was my system administrator who installed the vBulletin software on February 11th, 2003.

If you count my first junior high school woodshop class I have been woodworking for 50 years. I setup my first personal shop 37 years ago in a very small building that I built myself in Spotsylvania County Virginia.

[Randy Red Bemont]

I've only been on the creek for less than 3 months but have been woodworking on and off (mostly on) for over 35 years. Ran my own custom furniture shop for years which was the best job I ever had.

Red

[Mike Cutler]

I'm 55 now and have been woodworking on and off since the 7th grade, 1970. ( I made toy tugboat in Kindergarten out of wood and painted it red, but I don't think that counts. Couldn't paint then, still can't paint now. )
I've been a member of Sawmill Creek since Keith opened it up after Badger Pond shut down. Feb '03.

[Myk Rian]

Are you counting building and racing wood RC boats?

[Mike Cutler]

Are you counting building and racing wood RC boats?

I would think so.

[Bill Huber]

I joined the Creek in 2007 (8years) and that is about the same time I started woodworking. I had done some little stuff but not really wood working all my life, I mostly did metal work before that time.

I always hated woodworking, in metal working you cut the parts, weld them together and it is ready to be used. But in woodworking you have to sand it and then sand it some more, put finish on it and then more finish and then after a few days you can use it.

I guess as I have gotten older (70) things slow down and I am not in a hurry that much anymore.

[Dan Hintz]

Hmmm, I guess the right-hand side of my title block says it all... since 2007, though to be fair the first several years were mostly for laser engraving.

[Jamie Buxton]

On the Creek since March of 2003. Woodworking since the late fifties.

[Lee Schierer]

I've been a member since Feb 18, 2003, the creek was just 6 days old. A lot of sawdust has been made since then. I've been woodworking since about 3rd grade. My father purchased a Handy Andy tool kit for me as a Christmas present. I used to make cages to keep horned toads and lizards in when we lived in Texas. I still have my original small hand plane from that tool kit.

[Tony Joyce]

I've been on SMC since Feb 2007. I grew up in my father's woodworking shop. I have been doing woodworking full time(43 yrs) all of my adult life. Residential & commercial cabinetry and casework, architectural millwork and some furniture along the way. Always worked for myself, except for six years at a lumber retailer, where I worked in the shop and ran a CNC router.

Tony Joyce

[Judson Green]

My join date is Aug 2013 but like most I was hanging out reading post before. I've been working wood in some fashion on and off probably since my dad would let me help him. Have been woodworker for hire or otherwise involved in building stuff for over 20 years as a living.

[Phillip West]

Not that long here honestly with few posts..I grew up in a woodworking shop..My family made a great deal of their income making and selling Appalachian type furniture..Also re/weaving bark bottom chairs..
One of my first jobs as a kid was to rough out chair rounds with a drawknife and to help gather hickory bark for chair bottoms..When I was about 15 I started gravitating towards metal for some reason..Ive been a bladesmith/Blacksmith for a good while now..My wife took it over about 5-6 years ago and she makes her living now doing the same thing now..I never got away from wood working and still do it, more and more now..I actually have found myself missing it a lot the last several years..
When I was heat treating steels like cpm3v, cpm154,S35vn and all the new more exotic stuff I found myself missing the simpler times of working that old bluegrass drawknife that was sharpened out to the shape of a banana I still have it..

[Steve Schlumpf]

I joined SMC in Oct 2006 (my first real venture online) because I wanted feedback on a lathe that I was thinking about buying. I have dabbled in woodworking since I was a kid but it wasn't until I got married (had some dedicated space and picked up some power tools) that I really started to enjoy building things - sheds, decks, some furniture. I still enjoy building things but my true passion is woodturning - just something about creating curves and having something to show for your efforts in just a few hours!

[Rich Riddle]

Keith, isn't the Creek up to about 90,000 members? And you are number 2? Wow....of course you aren't the oldest member here.