The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven is exactly what you want

Holy clamp

That sounds so good. Thanks for the info!

Lizzie is adorable. She needs one of those window suction cup beds

How'd you make it?

Looks like a great puzzle

All I see is a handsome dude

A t-bone accident in that thing would be rough

So scrunched up!

I really like your pan! Where'd you get it and what kind is it?

Such a striking bird for such a common sounding name

You guys should join forces

He's looking very happy! You take good care of your cat!

Great looking jet!

I just finished Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and it was great!

I haven't watched Paul's long video on sharpening. Just the short 10 minute one. I really liked Rob Cosman's video on it. He showed how you can put your file throught a piece of wood to help you keep your file held at a certain angle. Then he drew some 60 degree marks on his saw vise. Having both of those helpers seems like it makes the process fool proof

Looks great. Going to be so nice to have and use

Not stupid at all. Makes total sense a really bad experience would put you off it.

I had a lot of fun doing all the research to figure out what to buy. Your best bet is to pick a project, then break that project down into parts, then buy the tools you need to do the first few parts of the project. It's a good way to get you woodworking asap for the least amount of money and keep you from wasting too much money if you lose interest. You can buy the tools for the next part of the project when you get to it

I just used 150 grit sandpaper then I rubbed some wax all over it to keep it from rusting again.

In the video from my other comment the guy does 150 grit, 400, 800, 1200 or something like that. I didn't do a ton of sanding on the other side. Planning to come back and do a little more work on it. There's some cool stuff etched on the other side about Disston and more saw info. I've got some more research to do for figuring out how to remove the rust while preserving the writing.

I used renaissance wax, but after seeing fine woodworking post on preventing corrosion i might go with using the CRC stuff they picked. (https://www.finewoodworking.com/2012/05/31/the-best-rust-preventers need to sign up to get the PDF 😭)