New from South Florida...

**GBrackett** · Dec 5, 2014, 12:18 PM

I'm a bladesmith/woodturner/firearms instructor. I became a full time bladesmith after my retirement from a career in technology. I was a coat &tie jockey. I make a lot of my own tools and recently started wood turning. I live in South Florida and I don't forge much in July, August, or September. Well that's me in a nutshell!

**Jon** · Dec 5, 2014, 12:46 PM

Hi GBrackett - welcome to HomemadeTools.net

Sounds like you have some very useful skills

Nice to have you on board!

**kbalch** · Dec 5, 2014, 01:54 PM

Hi GBrackett,

Welcome - glad to have you here!

I bet you've put those forging skills to use making woodturning tools! Which one is your favorite?

When you're ready to share some of your own homemade tools, we'd love to see them. Please post them directly in the Homemade Tools subforum. We'll add each one to the database, as well as to your builder page on the site.

Non-tool items should be shared in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum.

Ken

**DIYer** · Dec 5, 2014, 10:34 PM

Hi GBrackett, welcome! I like guns and knives too, but my collection is limited to a few multitools. Used to have a couple of military bayonets but they grew legs...