Clayton Carter wrote:

> 	I want to start out easy, doing everyone's favorite beginner
> project, the picture frame.

I don't know if a picture frame is the best beginning project if you 
are a rank beginner.  To get it done well you have to have a few tools 
and a bit of knowledge.  A better first project may be a small bench 
where all of the cuts are square and nothing has to match up very 
closely to have a successful end.

Ed Minch