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Woodworking: Where do I start - tips from experts in wood processing wood covers a broad area of expertise, skills and applications. 

Some beginners take on too much too soon or blow their savings on expensive woodworking tools and machines that they don't know how to use and might not ever need. 

And some basic techniques can be confusing or simply wrong to make. 

Experienced woodworkers have some simple, but insightful tips to help you get off to a good start. 

Do your research initiative, courage, sense of adventure, these are all good things, and many fine woodworkers learned their skills by just jumping in and trying to build something like  squinkies SNOW WHITE. 

Chances are whatever they chose for their first project, it came out better than they thought, but not really nice enough to use or display. 

Even those brave souls that start from scratch, without preparation, often end up looking in some books, magazines, or experienced woodworkers to figure out how to get it right.

The woodworkers we talked to stressed that a person can save themselves some time and frustration by learning about the different aspects of woodworking before starting a first project.