"I finally got rid of the rocking chair, which served no purpose other than to be a place of quiet futility when I couldn’t figure something out"
A lot of modern day woodworking learning consists of one woodworker showing another how to do something. If your WiFi can reach your shop, it might have been a mistake to get rid of that rocking chair. When I reach that point where I can't figure out how to make part of something, I'll surf the web, starting with YouTube woodworkers that have years of videos. It may take several variations in search terms and searching more than just YouTube but I nearly always find something that either shows what I need to do, and learn how to do, or something like it that I can adapt. It seems to me that rocking chair is a good place to start looking from.
Another source of help are woodworking forums. Answers tend to be slower in coming though.
I have to go all the way back to my house to search the web because my shop isn't wired for WiFi plus it's a metal sheathed pole building which is a pretty effective Faraday cage. Otherwise I might ask if you've gotten rid of that rocking chair or would like someone to take it away.
Good points! The rocking chair was pretty much at the end of its life, so it is now deconstructed parts that I’m going to make into something else. Like you I have to come inside the house to get internet; I don’t generally think to search on YouTube (often I revert to asking my dad or one of my elder woodworking friends), but a close friend shared his playlist with me when I was researching dust collection options and I enjoyed watching all those woodworkers talk at 1.5 speed about the wild world of dust collection options.
"I finally got rid of the rocking chair, which served no purpose other than to be a place of quiet futility when I couldn’t figure something out"
A lot of modern day woodworking learning consists of one woodworker showing another how to do something. If your WiFi can reach your shop, it might have been a mistake to get rid of that rocking chair. When I reach that point where I can't figure out how to make part of something, I'll surf the web, starting with YouTube woodworkers that have years of videos. It may take several variations in search terms and searching more than just YouTube but I nearly always find something that either shows what I need to do, and learn how to do, or something like it that I can adapt. It seems to me that rocking chair is a good place to start looking from.
Another source of help are woodworking forums. Answers tend to be slower in coming though.
I have to go all the way back to my house to search the web because my shop isn't wired for WiFi plus it's a metal sheathed pole building which is a pretty effective Faraday cage. Otherwise I might ask if you've gotten rid of that rocking chair or would like someone to take it away.
Good points! The rocking chair was pretty much at the end of its life, so it is now deconstructed parts that I’m going to make into something else. Like you I have to come inside the house to get internet; I don’t generally think to search on YouTube (often I revert to asking my dad or one of my elder woodworking friends), but a close friend shared his playlist with me when I was researching dust collection options and I enjoyed watching all those woodworkers talk at 1.5 speed about the wild world of dust collection options.