Justin Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Hey everyone, I've been a follower of Marc's for a couple years now, decided to join the forum as I start/grow my woodworking hobby. I am 29, about to be 30 in a couple months, I live with my beautiful, patient, and mostly supportive wife, my eight year old step daughter, and our two year old daughter. We moved into our first house about three years ago and since then I have kicked the cars out of the garage and am slowly growing it into my shop, it's a 2.5 car 24x30 detached. For my day job, I work at a very large, well known company as a Sr. Programmer/Analyst, and mostly write software in C++/C, but I am fluent in multiple programming languages. I am a CNC enthusiast, since I was 18ish, I always wished that someday I would own one. Well about a year and half ago, I started researching and found a few DIY kits for a reasonable price, decided to build my own, and learn how to run one. I was pretty nervous about building one, mostly because of how accurate they need to be. I researched and learn everything about them over the course of probably 6 months, then decided to bite the bullet. Then over the course of a few months to a year I finished the build, and will probably continue to upgrade parts and other things down the road. As far as CAD experience goes, in high school I had a year of mechanical engineering, and a year in architectural. Then when I went to college, I took a year of mechanical before switching to a computer programming degree. And as far as woodworking experience goes, I took shop class in high school, and have done mostly rough carpentry work. Even though I own a CNC router, along with some other woodworking tools like craftsman table saw, benchtop bandsaw, sanders, scroll saw, etc..., I would like to get into building fine furniture, and cabinetry using every tool I can possibly acquire. Some of my interests/hobbies (I've been told I have too many):Woodworking, CNC, Guitars, electronics, writing software, computers (building and repair), robotics, guns/knives, kydex holsters/sheaths, and machining. None of them are cheap hobbies/interests and the new ones seem to keep getting more expensive Thanks for taking the time to read, see you in the forums.-Justin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 welcome justin, good to have another iowan here, i'm from the eastern side, many hobbies for me also but woodworking is the number one thing i do, lots of great people and information here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Welcome, Justin! Glad to have you. Just curious, what happened to the other 0.5 car from the garage? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Welcome to the forum Justin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 You may have just screwed up your financial future! You want to build fine furniture and cabinetry using every tool you can aquire! Have you ever heard of "Festool"? you will, and you'll be poorer for the knowledge! Welcome to the forum, and get a strong rubber band for your wallet! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Welcome to the forum. I'm an ISU grad and now live just South of Omaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Justin, welcome! I barely keep my head above water supporting hunting, fishing, guns, woodworking and fine tequila and cigars. Your hobbies sound a whole lot more expensive than mine! Enjoy the support here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Justin Welcome to the forum. You will find plenty of information here to help you spend large amounts of money on tools, tools and more tools. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janello Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Nice introduction. Welcome Justin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 Thanks everyone. welcome justin, good to have another iowan here, i'm from the eastern side, many hobbies for me also but woodworking is the number one thing i do, lots of great people and information here Western Iowa here, actually refreshing to see a lot of mid-westerners around here. I have told people I live in Iowa before, more than once I have heard "where is that?", and most of them were from people in the US.Welcome, Justin! Glad to have you. Just curious, what happened to the other 0.5 car from the garage? ?I suppose if I wasn't married or have kids it would probably be a motorcycle You may have just screwed up your financial future! You want to build fine furniture and cabinetry using every tool you can aquire! Have you ever heard of "Festool"? you will, and you'll be poorer for the knowledge! Welcome to the forum, and get a strong rubber band for your wallet! Well I suppose reasonably acquire? Lol actually as far as festool goes the domino would be the only tool that I would like to have right now, the others would just be upgrades to tools I own. Either way if I want a tool bad enough I will always figure out a way to afford it Welcome to the forum. I'm an ISU grad and now live just South of Omaha.Nice I have a lot of family and friends in Omaha, Born and raised Sioux City here. So Cyclones, Hawkeyes, or Nebraska fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted November 23, 2015 Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 Belated welcome Justin. Nice to have not only another mid-westerner, but another programmer. I work in the Quad City area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Nice to meat you Cliff, what type of programming you do? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat60 Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Welcome to the forums Justin..Glad your here man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted November 25, 2015 Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 Nice to meat you Cliff, what type of programming you do? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using TapatalkWeak sauce compared to you. I'm c# .net. Web applications. Full stack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted November 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2015 I wouldn't say weak sauce, out of everything Microsoft has ever came out with c# is probably the only good thing lol. I write c/c++ for warehousing and automation on Unix, and my team also has a couple of c# apps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 Well your job sounds more appealing to me right now I've grown stagnant at my position. It's basically nap & collect paycheck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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