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235590 Chuck Ramsey <chuck-ramsey@l...> 2012‑12‑25 Bio











Dear Galoots=2C (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce
myself=2C" I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen
Illinois winters followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the
US Army) and I found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was
born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable=2C
meaningful=2C and painful moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon.
So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60
degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised above 400'
sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting
too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at
this to be a galoot. So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been
reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable=2C
not evil) under the porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain
gobsmacked at the collective wisdom=2C experience=2C knowledge=2C and
generosity of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are
limited (I can push things with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had
"...a fool for a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I
am by nature and necessity a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when
I buy a new tool at the local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard
sales=2C flea markets=2C and rust buckets for a while now. I have
amassed an assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to
fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. I am also an second floor
apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor.
Tho=2C I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is
a small patio opened to the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a
dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved
to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the
same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails (also from
local dumpsters). Progress that I'm going to continue this next
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me? Please? I promise to
try to be good. I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I
draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck



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