Chuck,

Sounds to me like you will fit in nicely with this bunch of misfits.  I'm
with you on the flying monkeys.  When I see flying monkeys, I shoot first.
Sounds like you have the workshop about as galoot as it gets.  Pull up a
chair.  Grab a beverage of choice and "set-a-spell."

Doc

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Chuck Ramsey  wrote:

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> Dear Galoots,
>                                          (Short Version) " Please allow me
> to introduce myself,"  I'm chuck.
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> 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, meaningful, 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,
> not evil) under the porch for a couple of years.  I have been and remain
> gobsmacked at the collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, 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, flea markets,
> 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, 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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