New boy says hello

[Old Minger]

Thanks gents I appreciate all the advice. It's a minefield out there if you don't know your a%*e from your elbow!

So when it comes to blame I would just like to point the finger at Tom G. I recently inherited my Dad's lathe and was going to sell it, but I couldn't bear to part with it so decided to keep it and have a go at the black art of metal working. During my research I stumbled across Tom's website and I was hooked, so many thanks Tom, I'm sure I'll be cursing you daily. 

I have only some basic tooling and next to nothing when it come to measuring instruments so I'm starting from scratch.

What will I be making? I'd be happy just to turn the lathe on and not send the tool crashing into the chuck, I'm sorry but I'm that new. Ultimately I'd like to be able to make something like Tom's Knurling thingy and a have a go at the many interesting projects out there.

It's going to be a long journey and I'm looking forward to it and I hope in the process I can pass a little of this knowledge on to my kids, let's face it the world doesn't need any more software engineers.

So once again thanks for the inspiration and all the advice, I'm glad I found you guy's.

Cheers

John

PS.

I'm on the Wet Coast, Vancouver, BC.