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184359 "andy baughn" <badandy0442@c...> 2008‑11‑03 Bio Update
I'm 33, been married for 11 years to SWMBO.  We have a 7 year old GIT and
SWMBO is due in February with GIT #2 (don't know the gender yet).  We live
in southern michigan, just north of the Indiana border.  I work at Hebrew
National Foods in the lab testing the products.  (Yes I still eat hotdogs).

 
I have been working wood most of my life.  The rest was wasted.  I won a CD
player in a grocery bagging contest and sold it to a friend to buy a cheap
table saw in high school.  Promptly took off all the guards (that's how they
are on TV right?).  Didn't do too much in college.  Got back interested in
woodworking after graduation.  
 
I used my ryoba saw, chisels and drill with my 5 gallon bucket to start
making stuff.  No clamps, no vice.  I just held the wood down with my bare
foot.  Drove SWMBO nuts.  Eventually built a house after moving to Indy and
a workbench.
 
Pulled out of the garage one day ran over the cheap table saw.  So I got no
table saw now.  Short time later I went to see St Roy at University of Indy.
(remember the sweedish milking stool episode).  I helped set up Roy's tools
for the demo after the dinner and talked to him a bit.  Then I realized that
people have been building furniture for centuries without power tools.  So I
used what I had, bought a few, inherited a bunch, made a couple and gave up
on the power tools.  
 
Still looking for a flea market where I can get some tools.  Plenty of
antique malls around but too many $50 saws for me.  Looking for a place
where I can get wood cheap too.  Everytime I see a pallet someone grabs it
before I can.  SWMBO has a "Buy You One, I'll Make You One"  list that is by
now about 5 pages long.  I'm working on my hanging tool cabinet so I will
quit chasing the tools around the basement. Hope to get it done before GIT
#2 arrives but probably won't.  My new workbench needs some work.  SWMBO
jokes that I will forever be planning a new bench.  

Bad Andy

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