Hey folks, just thought I’d give a quick hello from Southern Wisconsin. I’m not building (yet!), I’m currently setting up for pilot training, mostly because I seem to have fallen in love with the Onex in particular, but assuming the former goes well, I am already scheming about how to put a Onex in my garage. 
I expect to be asking a lot of dumb questions along the way, but I’m hoping that the power of the internet and sheer stubbornness will see me through! Glad to be here!
Welcome! Where in Southern Wisconsin? I’m at C77 in Northern Illinois, 10 miles south of the border.
Howdy!
Eastern IA for me (Cedar Rapids). It seens a whole bunch of us are sprinkled around the factory a few hours in every direction.
You’re really close! Evansville, my closest airports are JVL, and C37, with EFT being not too terribly distant, either.
I’m hoping, at some point, to be based out of either C37 or EFT, but that’s pretty far down the road at the moment…
KEFT is a favorite gas stop. Cheap gas! Where are you training?
Self-training at the moment, LOL, but I’ve been putting feelers out. I have a friend who was training at one point, and another who’s friends with some of the folks at Morey Airplane, who was also recommended by another instructor I had called, but that apparently isn’t training anymore. Gonna be calling them this week to see, probably tomorrow.
Welcome!
Welcome, Hammers_Kid. Thanks for joining us!
One thing to consider, if you can find tailwheel training, do all your primary training in tailwheel. Then you have the tailwheel options open to you and will be insurable. That’s what my father recommended to me years ago, and that’s what I did.
Welcome! I would bet some of us have been there too!
I will definitely keep that in mind, and see if I can make that happen. I believe there may be a school in Janesville that offers tailwheel endorsements, will have to look again, so thank you! If I can’t find primary training in tailwheel, though, how hard is it to get the endorsement later and be insurable? I know there’s a school north of Oshkosh that offers it, along with aerobatic/upset training, but now I’m curious if folks going that route have had trouble getting insurance?
C77 does training in a J3 and a C140. The main problem with just doing a checkout later is the insurance company wants a bunch of tailwheel time. But if you do all, or a bunch of primary training in tailwheel, you will have a bunch of tailwheel hours. You are going to have a bunch of hours either way. If it’s really a barrier though, there is nothing wrong with flying a 152 or a Cherokee and being a nosewheel guy.
Honestly, I really want to learn tailwheel so I have the option for it later, if I can incorporate it into my other training, so much the better. I might just have to pop down to your home field, then, Bryan! 
Welcome to the forum!