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-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Ramsey To: oldtools Sent: 2012-12-
26 03:33:36 +0000 Subject: [OldTools] Bio

Dear Galoots, (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"
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, 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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