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151924 jkrau@h... 2005‑10‑29 Bio
Hello, I have been watching a listening on here for a bit, and picked
up a darn good many ideas while I"ve been hanging about, so.  About
ten years back I needed a better eggbeater drill, and after buying
and cleaning it, the logo Millers Falls came to light after many
years of hiding.  An article in Smithsonian magazine about the same
time, keyed me to the fact that tools had finally become worth
hanging onto.  Right after that I stumbled literally, over a Stanley
45 in original wooden box.  It wasn't cheap but came home with me.  
   I live on the farm I grew up on, and got most of my fathers
things, and started scouting the corners of the sheds, made quite a
pile of iron, mostly wrenches, but quite a few saw sets.  I was born
in the Truman administration, and moved in a shed to use as a shop,
the building was constructed when Harry was in office also.  Since
then, that shed has been filling up, rapidly.  First it was the
wrenches, solid and monkey type.  Then axes, adze, crosscut saws,
even dug out a big shaping axe to add to the pile.  I"ve always gone
to auctions, and flea markets, jumbles, Jeff.  Tools started cropping
up at those places and at a new antique mall.  I discovered many of
the drills in that pile sprouted the names of Goodell&Pratt, Stanley,
Oakleaf, and Millers Falls, of course that could of been the time I
took that lighted magnifying thing out to the shop too.  Drawknives
seem to come in 3 don't they?  Then lately, handsaws, sure wish I'd
found this place and the Disstonian institute before I vigorously
removed the rust!  Generally use the manual tools around home, as I
got real tired of running those extension cords.  
     And I spend about equal time at the bench, derusting and
sharpening new finds, as making small projects for the house.  I also
blacksmith, and am in the process of fixing up an outbuilding for
that process alone.  I've gotten very nervous in my senior years with
having hot iron and sparks in the same building as wood shavings. 
Gentlemen, and ladies, thank you for sharing the information and
tips, makes it all more worthwhile.  John in Nebraska 

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