Hello

I work at a set builders as a scenic technician, which is so interesting & i'm learning all the time.
I now have some tools...scroll saw, bench sander, router & table...at home & would like to make things but am not overly confident so need all the advice i can get!

Hi Sarah - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:

What would you like to make first? I'm sure we can lend a hand.

Hi Sarah,

Welcome! :welcome:

Sounds as though you have the beginning of a good shop. Where would you like to begin?

Ken

"I have some tools..."
Confidence comes from experience, experience comes from experimentation /trial and error. Apprehensive about consuming costly materials? Few places don't have some version of Habitat ReStore.
As it is probably a portion of your daily work, the decision to go parallel or divert might be a place to start. You surely cook; oven rack hooks, trivets, spatulas or spoons...
Just use your imagination. Find something you've looked at and mentally improved. Or wanted and could find no supplier.
A small shop and some tools is precisely what innumerable inventions and many full blown corporations started with.
The Wright Brothers. Hewlett-Packard. Honeywell, Studebaker, most of the auto and aircraft manufacturers, Harley-Davidson, Smith & Wesson and all the firearms companies including Beretta [a business way over 600 years old]. Not to mention the furniture makers, Chippendale, Duncan Phyfe, Eames, Bassett. Musical Instruments, Stradivarius, Fender, Martin, Dopyera. Hand Tools, Stanley. Starrett, Brown & Sharpe, Clothing and Footwear. Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix started in a kitchen; by two men Rutt & Underwood. F.L. Sommers Saltine Crackers. Gerstle's St. Joseph's Aspirin. Nordskog. Clay Smith Camshafts. Keith Black Racing Engines, Clessie Cummins. Jean-Claude Simon, Evinrude or Kiekhaefer.
Maybe not within your scope of interest, but examples from machinery manufacturers is what I see highly impactful, foundation for much of what is represented in this humble list.
Virtually every item in our collective households are the result of some 'little person" hovering over a bench.
Paraphrasing an axiom I work at, is about wood [gunstocks] but interchanges to any raw material. "Inside every blank is a perfect stock, you just have to remove excess material".
Get busy and make some dust!