Galoots (and others, who may look respectable),...
I'd forgotten about the request of a bio,...(till I saw Carey's today)

I'm Bruce Mosher, Williamston, Michigan, USA.

Happily married (she likes me to buy tools,... as she wants the fruit of
their employment), two wonderful children (altho my 14 yr old has purple
hair this week).  I am employed as a design engineer for a manufacturer of
high temp insulators & heaters (to 3050° F).

On a very part time basis, I build custom hardwood furniture.  A busy year
is 2-3 commissions.  I make sure that I don't develop a dependency on WW $,
as I want it to always be something I do because I enjoy it, not a way to
earn money.  My shop floor is littered with p*w*r cords, as I don't have
the demeanor to do everything by hand.  I enjoy a sharp hand plan tho,...  
 I'm not good enough to have a STYLE,... but I think I will in just another
20-25 years.

I have a nice shop (16x26) that sits above the garage and looks out on the
Red Cedar river.  Now that I'm almost done with the addition o the house, I
get to spend several nights a week out there.  I'm toying with putting in
dust collection.  My most recent toy is a 37" Clement band saw (patent
1879!!!! does that qualify me for a Galoot decoder ring?),.... it's been
out of service for years,.. after owning myself for over a year, I finally
put a motor on it earlier tonight,.... after about 15 minutes it burnt out
the controller (I was trying to use a DC motor on it).  So I'm back in the
market for a good source of revolution for the saw (I suppose that, as a Jr
Galoot, I should be looking at the river in the back yard,....).

- - After reading the above, if I didn't know me, I'd think "sounds like a
rich guy".... but believe me, I'm not,... I just focus a lot of my
resources into woodworking.  

If ever any of you are heading through the mid-Michigan area, let me know,
I'll put on some coffee!

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Bhermanek@a... wrote:

  I know this was long but I guarantee you=92ll never get anything this
long
 from me again other than a for sale list.
 Bill Hermanek

Welcome Bill!

Well, er, ah, 2000 tools?  Um, you wouldn't mind sending me that FS list
an hour
before you forward it to the listserve, would ya?

Enjoy the list Bill, these guys are a blast.
Bill C.

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Bhermanek@a... wrote:



  I know this was long but I guarantee you=92ll never get anything t=
his
long

 from me again other than a for sale list.

 Bill Hermanek



Welcome Bill!

 

Well, er, ah, 2000 tools?  Um, you wouldn't mind sending me that
FS list an hour

before you forward it to the listserve, would ya? 

 

Enjoy the list Bill, these guys are a blast.

Bill C.

 



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> 
> Bob Lockwood
> 
> PS: Is there a such thing as planing elbow? I really aggravated mine one
> day after several hours of planing. I'm hoping this is due to working on a
> bench which is to high and that when I get the new bench done this won't be
> an issue.
> 

Welcome, Bob! There probably is, but the too high bench is probably
causing
it. I've got a case of wood splitting/shoveling elbow that wasn't
aggravated
with the large amount of planing I did last weekend, so I don't think
planing
per se is too hard on it. I did get very sore triceps muscles on my left
arm
though. And was tired and sore overall from the Kirbyesque body motions.
You
can't quite understand what he's talking about until you get a solid
bench at
the right height and go at a board with well tuned planes. I think I'm
going 
to have to learn to plane left handed in order to make sure I develop 
muscles evenly. B^)

There's also #45 honing syndrome caused by getting a #45 and trying
to hone all the blades. It basically involves hand cramps and blisters
in
odd places. B^) (No, not _that_ odd!!)

In message 01BBFE4D.9BB88A40@w...you write:
>I'm a 33 year old father of three (6 week old girl, 3 year old boy, 6 year 
>old girl).  I spend most of my waking hours under the employment of 
>Tektronix.  I grew up in south western VA, but relocated to OR three years 
>ago after receiving my Masters of Computer Science from the University of 
>VA.

Welcome aboard - I'm just finishing off my Ph.D. in C.S. - I've found
these the most productive woodworking years yet...

>After finishing my bench I hope to sell my benchtop table saw and buy a bow 
>saw with the proceeds.  I'm sure I'll have some questions for the group as 
>the bench proceeds.

Ooh....Save your money.  Build the bow saw.  Dirt simple, and blades are
easy to find - a good sharpenning and blade shop will sell them to you
for about 10 cents an inch.  I posted something a few days ago on how to
put a saw together which I can drop you again if you like - it takes
about an hour (including the minuscure amount of metal work, which only
requires a hacksaw and a drill) and the result is very satisfying.  Same
thing goes for marking gauges and panel gauges - really quick and
immediately useful.

And besides, someday someone will show up at your shop with a church
full of pews to give you, and you'll regret not having a tablesaw or
bandsaw to rip the damned moldings off the top of this great lumber.
(True story, except that I had to pick up the pews myself - white oak,
about 800 usable BF, it was a small church.  Been using a lot of oak
lately...)

As for planing elbow, can't say I've ever had that, although I've
buggered my wrists morticing with an under-weighted mallet (mind you
that really agravating a previously existing condition of key-board
wrists).

	Paul

 Internet: lalonde@c...
 Web: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lalonde/homepage.html

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible aux yeux"
                                - Antoine de St.-Exupery

: My bench is pretty well fixed with saws, and planes from the small and long
: ends of the spectrum, but I'm beginning to fill out the middle.  At this
: point I'm beginning a low key hunt for a decent smoother.

In my experience, there are a couple of non-obvious places to go for a
decent smoother.  The obvious places are Patrick & L-N.

	1. I have a John Gage smoother that I can sharpened with a slight
	   curve, such that when it is set fine it has less than an inch
	   of cutting area.  I can get stuff so fine that you can easily
	   read through it.

	2. I have a Stiletto brand #4 clone that has an old fashioned (thick
	   at the cutting end) blade.  That sucker is a great smoother, gives
	   my L-N #4 some serious competition (but doesn't have an adjustable
	   mouth type deal like the L-N).

The curved blade trick is key.  I think you can take any old junker plane that
has a reasonable frog - i.e., one that doesn't chatter, and curve the blade
until it works.  Try it.