Well I thought that I had put up a bio years ago, but, couldn't find
it. So here goes a new one. Now if I can remember all the lies I told
before. I first started woodworking way back in the dark ages. the
last of the 1940's, in Iowa, when the school teacher decided that the
boys in the class (3) would take shop. His idea of a shop class was
give each kid a old block plane, a sanding block, and a carved up desk
to refinish, needless to say that didn't work out very good. But I
took shop all thru high school and have been working with wood ever
since. During the 20 years in the service (USMC) I always had some
kind of woodworking tools with me, usually a Port-a-shop and hand
tools. After I got out of the service, I remodeled homes and built 2
for myself. In VA and MT. I also have worked as a bartender,
motorcycle mechanic,( mostly British), electronic game and pinball
mechanic, and a decorative decoy carver just before I retired. I was
like TIM the toolman, that I had I have the biggest and best of power
tools, but in the last 20 years I have gotten rid most of the power
and have gone back to hand tools. I do a lot of antique repair now and
hand tools RULE. I have almost as much fun in making tools than using
them. I am some what of a chisels nut, at the last count I have over
100 of them needing handles and cleaned up, most socket types. And I
have been making planes. That another steep slope. I have made 4 and
have 3 more in the works now, I even make the blades for them. I have
made dulcimers in the past and have some more laid out and I have the
wood cut for a ukulele and a guitar and a mandolin, and I can't play a
note. I just like to build things. I make up about 30 to 50 small
boxes a year for knife and gun collectors and jewelry boxes. I also
make small carving knives for woodcarvers and some northwest style
bent or crooked knives. My shop is 30' x 30' with 14' added on the
back side for metal working and 12' on the front for wood storage. And
I can't hardy move around in there now. I also am a wood hoarder, I
have a 8' X 20' and a 12' X 8' sheds full of wood and more stacked
outside to be milled.
I am looking forward to this Galootaclaus.
Richard
Richard L. Rombold WIZARD WOODWORKING 489 N. 32nd. St.
Springfield, Or .97478
Take a look at my mess and work.
http://www.PictureTrail.com/gallery/view?username=thewizz
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste
good with ketchup"
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