Hi everyone,
Tim Pollock here. I'd like to thank the administrators for allowing me to become part of the group. My first memory of woodwork was when my older brother started making crafts in shop class and bringing them home. I was mesmerized. I couldn't wait until I got in Jr. High so I could also take shop. I fell in love with working with wood and have done woodcrafts in one form or another for more than 45 yrs. From making flat work crafts, to cabinet building, to antique furniture refinishing, to my absolute love of woodturning. I purchased my first lathe in 1993 when I was running an antique furniture refinishing business. Many of the chairs that came in were missing spindles and needed replacements. I had never ran a lathe, we didn't have one unfortunately in either shop class I took in school. I had no idea how to operate one but I had always been fascinated by wood lathes. I operated that business for 5 yrs and somehow stumbled through making all the spindles I needed to replace without having any idea how to use a lathe and amazingly enough without getting hurt.
In the early 2,000's I got interested in tobacco pipe making and purchased another lathe to experiment with that. Thankfully YouTube had come along by this time and I learned a great deal about turning there. I made and sold pipes for maybe 2-3 yrs, then started doing some spindle orientation turning again. I had no interest whatsoever in turning bowls... until I turned my first one (somewhere around 2017) and it flew apart from a catch hitting me in the head. That must have knocked some sense into me as I fell in love with bowl turning and it's been my passion ever since. I glued that bowl back together, finished it and it sits on my desk as I type. I've turned all kinds of things over the years but bowls are still my favorite thing to turn. I've read and learned lots here on the AAW forum and finally decided it was time I became a respectable woodturner and join the AAW. 😎 Due to an accident in 2007 I was forced to medically retire from my job as an equipment mechanic and an electrician business I was also running. That was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do as I've always been a workaholic. Woodturning has helped keep me sane these last few years. It's just a hobby for me but it keeps me going.
Thanks again for having me!
Tim
Tim Pollock here. I'd like to thank the administrators for allowing me to become part of the group. My first memory of woodwork was when my older brother started making crafts in shop class and bringing them home. I was mesmerized. I couldn't wait until I got in Jr. High so I could also take shop. I fell in love with working with wood and have done woodcrafts in one form or another for more than 45 yrs. From making flat work crafts, to cabinet building, to antique furniture refinishing, to my absolute love of woodturning. I purchased my first lathe in 1993 when I was running an antique furniture refinishing business. Many of the chairs that came in were missing spindles and needed replacements. I had never ran a lathe, we didn't have one unfortunately in either shop class I took in school. I had no idea how to operate one but I had always been fascinated by wood lathes. I operated that business for 5 yrs and somehow stumbled through making all the spindles I needed to replace without having any idea how to use a lathe and amazingly enough without getting hurt.
In the early 2,000's I got interested in tobacco pipe making and purchased another lathe to experiment with that. Thankfully YouTube had come along by this time and I learned a great deal about turning there. I made and sold pipes for maybe 2-3 yrs, then started doing some spindle orientation turning again. I had no interest whatsoever in turning bowls... until I turned my first one (somewhere around 2017) and it flew apart from a catch hitting me in the head. That must have knocked some sense into me as I fell in love with bowl turning and it's been my passion ever since. I glued that bowl back together, finished it and it sits on my desk as I type. I've turned all kinds of things over the years but bowls are still my favorite thing to turn. I've read and learned lots here on the AAW forum and finally decided it was time I became a respectable woodturner and join the AAW. 😎 Due to an accident in 2007 I was forced to medically retire from my job as an equipment mechanic and an electrician business I was also running. That was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do as I've always been a workaholic. Woodturning has helped keep me sane these last few years. It's just a hobby for me but it keeps me going.Thanks again for having me!
Tim
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