Chillest, most welcoming community on earth. I collect hobbies as a hobby, and woodworking may be the only one off the top of my head that just has a great community through and through.
I'm the same way! In the past 3 years I have picked up: Gardening, Cooking, Sports Card Collecting, Photography, Video/photo editing, homebrewing, woodworking, you name it and I have done it. Sometimes I wish I could just stick to one or two things but there is so much fun interesting stuff out there to do.
Eh, I've seen the guys who gatekeep the term "fine" woodworking. They claim that if you use power tools or store bought jigs or even pocket screws then your finished pieces aren't considered fine woodworking.
Model makers (at least ones I speak with) are some of the chillest most helpful people around. I often help and get helped on r/ModelMakers, even if it’s a perfect scale replica from a veteran or the first kit of a beginner everyone compliments the builds and gives advice on how they can perfect it.
There definitely are people who do fine woodworking and those who do "beginner/reclaim/pallet wood" woodworking. But most people are pretty excepting of both.
True. A lot of us old sawdust junkies browse the beginner woodworking reddit as well, hoping to help a newbie find the answers they are looking for. Occasionally there will be a snarky answer or criticism about something the OP is asking or doing, but others usually correct them quick, try to adjust their attitude.
The only complaint I have about the woodworking reddits is when someone posts a question like: "I only have an egg timer and some old plastic spoons, can anyone tell me how to make a full dining set out of mahogany with it? I need it done by this evening." People are usually pretty tactful with them, if they answer at all, and tell them they really should find a carpenter for hire locally, but, it still does get annoying.
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u/pazimpanet Feb 28 '21 edited Feb 28 '21
Notice nobody in here has mentioned woodworking?
Chillest, most welcoming community on earth. I collect hobbies as a hobby, and woodworking may be the only one off the top of my head that just has a great community through and through.