Welcome, indeed!


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 From: Chuck Ramsey  To: "oldtools@r..."
  Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 9:33 PM Subject:
 [OldTools] Bio













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(Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"=A0 I'm chuck.=A0
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (Longer Version)I'm
a 1954 model.=A0 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.=A0 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).=A0 But I'm too new at this to be a galoot.=A0 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.=A0 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.=A0 Does that count?).=A0 And I've had "...a fool for a master."
in the sense of "A self taught man has...".=A0 I am by nature and
necessity a bottom feeder.=A0 I usually feel foolish when I buy a new
tool at the local H#&% D%!#@.=A0 I've wandered the local yard sales,
flea markets, and rust buckets for a while now.=A0 I have amassed an
assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a
full woodworking hand tool kit.=A0 I am also an second floor apartment
dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor.=A0 Tho,
I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm.=A0 My workshop is a
small patio opened to the sun.=A0 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=A0 (also
from local dumpsters).=A0 Progress that I'm going to continue this next
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me?=A0 Please?=A0 I
promise to try to be good.=A0 I'll even try to be nice to those folks
from Oz.=A0 But I draw the line at flying monkeys.=A0 No flying
monkeys!=A0 Okay?=A0 =A0 chuck=A0 =A0 =A0



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