In a message dated 2/20/99 7:25:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
spokeshave@m... writes:

> >Woodworking interests:
>  >I collect wood (and am a member of the IWCS - International Wood
>  >Collectors' Society),
>
>
>  Is this for real or did you just make them up?
>  I think I need to join.......
>
It's for real alright.  You wouldn't believe the wood gloats I have to put up
with at work - a couple of $10 ebony stumps, a $4 piece of koa about right for
Mark McGuire's bat, etc. etc. etc.

In fairness, I have to say that Howard took me to an auction at a fellow
member's place where I picked up slabs of osage orange, silver maple, red elm
burl, live oak, sycamore, and some other odds 'n' ends.

Steve Jones
Kokomo IN
Still seeking Stanley #64 screwdrivers and Buck Bros. mortise chisels