Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 6, 2017 Just signed up a few hours ago and wanted to say hello to everyone here at "Leather Worker". I moved to central Florida almost 11 years ago from New Orleans after Katrina ran me out of there. I'm now retired from a couple of major airlines where a I worked as an aircraft technician for the past 40 years. After retiring a little over a year ago, I somehow stumbled into leather crafting. Since I worked with my hands all of my life, working with leather was a natural fit and I simply fell in love with it. Slowly but surely I'm finding my way around the this site,so I apologize in advance for any posts in the wrong place, pics that don't show up, or any other noobie mistakes. Regards to all and I look forward to all future interactions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RockyAussie Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Welcome and I think your in a good place there as a few on this site like Caza Lopez should be pretty close I think. A whole heap of water between me and there unfortunately. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Thank you for the welcome and it's my pleasure! My wife and I are looking to make it "down under" within the nest few years. Who knows, maybe we'll get a chance to meet up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Welcome. I original come from Eustis but live in Huntsville, AL for the time being. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Thank you for the welcome! Used to live in Mobile many years ago. Regards! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greystoneleatherllc Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Hello from Gainsville ,,David Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TonyRV2 Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Welcome aboard Jet...I'm about 20 miles east of Gainesville on Little Orange Lake near Hawthorne. I make knives here and do my leather crafting at my place in West Branch, MI. Since I do the snowbird thing I wondered what I might do when I was away from my knife shop, and making sheaths came to mind. That's how I started doing leather. I retired from teaching college electronics about a month ago so I'm looking forward to my new avocation. I imagine as an avionics tech, you dabbled in a little electronics yourself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BDAZ Report post Posted June 7, 2017 My son and daughter in law live in downtown Orlando and work a Florida Hospital (PAs) . She is from NOLA . Welcome! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 7, 2017 5 hours ago, TonyRV2 said: Welcome aboard Jet...I'm about 20 miles east of Gainesville on Little Orange Lake near Hawthorne. I make knives here and do my leather crafting at my place in West Branch, MI. Since I do the snowbird thing I wondered what I might do when I was away from my knife shop, and making sheaths came to mind. That's how I started doing leather. I retired from teaching college electronics about a month ago so I'm looking forward to my new avocation. I imagine as an avionics tech, you dabbled in a little electronics yourself. Thank you for the warm welcome! Yes, I have to say I've spent countless hours chasing down a circuit or two on aircraft schematics. Years ago I acquired my General Radiotelephone License from the FCC. When I worked for Northwest Airlines it was required back then in order to do avionics work. I used to spend weeks at a time in Romulus at the Detroit airport going to school for the airline. I got started about a year ago doing leather work by walking into a Tandy leather shop and asking how I would go about making a holster. I've been hooked ever since! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 7, 2017 2 hours ago, BDAZ said: My son and daughter in law live in downtown Orlando and work a Florida Hospital (PAs) . She is from NOLA . Welcome! I have a neighbor that works at Florida Hospital. We live in the Kissimmee area. Did your daughter have to relocate because of Katrina? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptQuirk Report post Posted June 7, 2017 20 hours ago, Jetdoctorbox said: Just signed up a few hours ago and wanted to say hello to everyone here at "Leather Worker". I moved to central Florida almost 11 years ago from New Orleans after Katrina ran me out of there. Ha! We left Central Florida after 3 hurricanes did in our home in '05! Welcome! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetdoctorbox Report post Posted June 7, 2017 36 minutes ago, CaptQuirk said: Ha! We left Central Florida after 3 hurricanes did in our home in '05! Welcome! Been here since '06 and knock on wood we've been lucky so far! Thank you for the welcome. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
