I started when I was in high school. Spent 4 years in the navy, when I got out I started to work in machine shop and doing wood working as a hobby at that time had some slack time but always went back working with wood, Now that I have finally retired it is a full time hobby, My dad worked with wood also. I guess it is a family thing, My father in lad did wood working and so does my brother in law,. it is in our vanes