Hey Bruce,

Welcome aboard!  Good to hear you are getting out more (-:

Regards,

-- 
Bill W.
Woodworkers visit me at:
http://Highland_House.tripod.com

Bruce Love wrote:
> 
> Alright, it is time to get this over with, I have been putting off
> sending in a bio for way too long - so I'll try to keep it short and
> to the point.  My name is Bruce Love and I am a 40 year old software
> engineer.  Currently, I live right outside of Doylestown in beautiful
> Bucks County, PA.  I have been lurking on and off for a number of
> years, but for the last year I have been keeping up pretty regularly
> so it is time that I fess-up and come out from behind the bushes.
> 
> I stumbled into Galootism, mostly out of a love of both history and
> "cool old gadgets." To keep this short, the biggest contributors to
> pushing me over the brink of the slope are (in order): seeing some
> "really cool looking wooden planes" during my first trip to
> Williamsburg, a purchase of "one of those planes" at an anteek store
> sometime later, discovery of a copy of Dunbar's "Restoring, Using
> and Tuning Classic Woodworking Tools" at my local library (kudos
> to Howard County, MD for that) and, watching St. Roy (who I
> have really missed in the last four years after moving back to PA
> from MD).
> 
> The arrival of my two GIT's (now 3 and 5), along with moving back to
> SE PA (where I grew up), were a big drain on my time for a number of
> years - but now I find myself again dreaming about tools that I still
> wan...err...need and the projects I will probably never really get
> around to building with them. This summer has been fun because my
> GIT's (particularly the older one) have enjoyed hitting local  garage
> sales with me.  Flea markets, on the other hand, still seem to be a
> little too much for even a five year old - "Dad - How many more tables
> are there?  Didn't we look at these tools before?  I'm getting really
> thirsty"...which, when rectified, creates another problem since the
> "potty" (WC, Jeff) is never anywhere near by.
> 
> Anyway my interest is primarily user tools (I keep repeating that to
> myself over and over and over and over), but by Porch standards my
> "collection" is a still a rather meager mixed bag.  When I started
> out, I was pretty much just into woodies - but I do like the #4 and #5
> I recently picked up.
> 
> One of the problems with hanging around the porch is that the more I
> learn, the more things I recognize and want to buy.  For years I owned
> a Yankee screwdriver (30) with no bits (got it from my wife's
> father) - but I knew nothing about it.  Then I hear lots on murmuring
> about Yankee tools on the porch and suddenly my screwdriver has
> some other "Yankee friends" (but still only one bit...so far).  But, I
> haven't been completely corrupted - I did pass on a (pretty mangled
> up) Perfect Handle screwdriver for $1 this summer.  Just didn't seem
> a direction I was ready to head yet [okay - truth be told I am still
> having second thoughts about why I didn't get it].
> 
> Finally, I want to point out that I also really enjoy hearing
> problems/solutions people have encountered when using their tools.  A
> big part of the fun to me is learning how these tools were originally
> used (and trying to do the same).  In that regard, I think this list
> provides a very good mix.
> 
> bruce love
> 
> - Who actually worked briefly with Bill Webber during my days in
> MD...Hi Bill!
> 
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