Another weekend, another newbie question from Ryan ;D
I'm a firm believer that one can never do too much planning in advance. While I still have no shop, and am settling on the machines I want to populate it with, I am looking at my (lack of) skills, and realizing I will probably waste a lot of metal if I just dive into a project without brushing up on skills and learning the machines first.
In the interest of saving money, what is a good cheap material to practice with? I have reasonably easy access to scrap wood (usually pine), but not sure if the properties are even remotely similar enough?
Anything else that is cheap, or readily available as scrap, that would make good practice material?
- Ryan
I'm a firm believer that one can never do too much planning in advance. While I still have no shop, and am settling on the machines I want to populate it with, I am looking at my (lack of) skills, and realizing I will probably waste a lot of metal if I just dive into a project without brushing up on skills and learning the machines first.
In the interest of saving money, what is a good cheap material to practice with? I have reasonably easy access to scrap wood (usually pine), but not sure if the properties are even remotely similar enough?
Anything else that is cheap, or readily available as scrap, that would make good practice material?
- Ryan