There is a Hobby-Machinist websie that might be right up our alley for the info, materials, techniques and tools that our level of knowledge and skills needs. It looks like you can view it and read the posts but would need to join if you want to post and ask questions there, which is fairly typical.
Here's a link to the Hobby-Machinist:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/
I joined a couple of weeks ago, this one seems friendly and welcoming of "Asian" machines.