Well Bill . . .you have a well constructed web site and I admire your wo=
rk.
But I will not visit your site as long as you have the Pop ups. My system
(at my request) will not allow Pop ups or any other forms of spam.=20
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Best Regards,=20
Col. Dick Hucker=20
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From: Bill Webber=20
Date: Friday, August 08, 2003 08:46:34=20
To: oldtools=20
Cc: oldtools=20
Subject: [oldtools] Re: Bio=20
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Hey Bruce,=20
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Welcome aboard! Good to hear you are getting out more (-:=20
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Regards,=20
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Bill W.=20
Woodworkers visit me at:=20
http://Highland_House.tripod.com=20
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Bruce Love wrote:=20
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> Alright, it is time to get this over with, I have been putting off=20
> sending in a bio for way too long - so I'll try to keep it short and=20
> to the point. My name is Bruce Love and I am a 40 year old software=20
> engineer. Currently, I live right outside of Doylestown in beautiful=20
> Bucks County, PA. I have been lurking on and off for a number of=20
> years, but for the last year I have been keeping up pretty regularly=20
> so it is time that I fess-up and come out from behind the bushes.=20
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> I stumbled into Galootism, mostly out of a love of both history and=20
> "cool old gadgets." To keep this short, the biggest contributors to=20
> pushing me over the brink of the slope are (in order): seeing some=20
> "really cool looking wooden planes" during my first trip to=20
> Williamsburg, a purchase of "one of those planes" at an anteek store=20
> sometime later, discovery of a copy of Dunbar's "Restoring, Using=20
> and Tuning Classic Woodworking Tools" at my local library (kudos=20
> to Howard County, MD for that) and, watching St. Roy (who I=20
> have really missed in the last four years after moving back to PA=20
> from MD).=20
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> The arrival of my two GIT's (now 3 and 5), along with moving back to=20
> SE PA (where I grew up), were a big drain on my time for a number of=20
> years - but now I find myself again dreaming about tools that I still=20
> wan...err...need and the projects I will probably never really get=20
> around to building with them. This summer has been fun because my=20
> GIT's (particularly the older one) have enjoyed hitting local garage=20
> sales with me. Flea markets, on the other hand, still seem to be a=20
> little too much for even a five year old - "Dad - How many more tables=20
> are there? Didn't we look at these tools before? I'm getting really=20
> thirsty"...which, when rectified, creates another problem since the=20
> "potty" (WC, Jeff) is never anywhere near by.=20
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> Anyway my interest is primarily user tools (I keep repeating that to=20
> myself over and over and over and over), but by Porch standards my=20
> "collection" is a still a rather meager mixed bag. When I started=20
> out, I was pretty much just into woodies - but I do like the #4 and #5=20
> I recently picked up.=20
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> One of the problems with hanging around the porch is that the more I=20
> learn, the more things I recognize and want to buy. For years I owned=20
> a Yankee screwdriver (30) with no bits (got it from my wife's=20
> father) - but I knew nothing about it. Then I hear lots on murmuring=20
> about Yankee tools on the porch and suddenly my screwdriver has=20
> some other "Yankee friends" (but still only one bit...so far). But, I=20
> haven't been completely corrupted - I did pass on a (pretty mangled=20
> up) Perfect Handle screwdriver for $1 this summer. Just didn't seem=20
> a direction I was ready to head yet [okay - truth be told I am still=20
> having second thoughts about why I didn't get it].=20
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> Finally, I want to point out that I also really enjoy hearing=20
> problems/solutions people have encountered when using their tools. A=20
> big part of the fun to me is learning how these tools were originally=20
> used (and trying to do the same). In that regard, I think this list=20
> provides a very good mix.=20
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> bruce love=20
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> - Who actually worked briefly with Bill Webber during my days in=20
> MD...Hi Bill!=20
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