greetings | Model Engineer

hello, what a fascinating place this is, I just went down a 4 hour worm hole reading the threads of what you guys make & what you use. i have lurked here sporadically over the years as Google has lead me to landing on threads with answers I had to engineering questions. I'm no model engineer or engineer of any kind, woodworker by day hand making drums (musical) or restoring & repairing them for people.... but its a trade that has often needed me to do small amounts of metal working & this seems to be getting more & more frequent as I build/repurpose/modify more complicated machinery to do the very niche & specialist jobs that find me.