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132672 Clif Palmberg <myemailnameisthis@y...> 2004‑04‑26 Bio and project completion
Hi. My name is Clif Palmberg. I've been reading oldtools for a year and a half
or so now, and figured it was time to ante up and introduce myself. I kept
pushing it off, and decided when I finish my major project, I'd show that off,
too. 

Vitals - Clif Palmberg, 26, happily married living in north Dallas, Texas
(Little Elm to be exact). By day I am a project manager for a yearbook company.
By night I am a wood torturer and do cruel things to unsuspecting pieces of
trees for my own pure entertainment. 
I began woodworking when I was nine. My dad did it as a hobby, and I was signed
up in 4-H (Kansas) for woodworking. My first project was a tic tac toe block
that was mainly woodburning (that was quite the rage thinking back). That
progressed through high school, with stops along the way to make a chest,
stacking bookcase, grandfather clock, curved-front chest of drawers, headboard
and a few other things. My dad had a shopsmith with many attachments, and we
would find a way to use power for even the finest or most intricate of tasks.
Insert college, traveling, first job, marriage, apartment, moving to our first
home. I was reunited with my woodworking bug as I graduated college and made a
nightsttand for my eventual wife. 
Woodworking in my youth, there was a few things I generally didn't like. The
noise, sawdust, constant threat of being one wrong move and not being able to
count to ten with your fingers. I discovered oldtools, realizied quality still
means something somewhere, and there is a way to enjoy the smell of freshly cut
walnut while still hearing the music in the background.
The rest is history, as they say. 

...

Enough about me. The project that gave me pause to post my bio. What would you
expect - a workbench! I'm a bit of a photo and web junkie (used to do photo
professionally, do webwork on the side). So, I made a quick page on my bench.
Check it out at:
http://homepage.mac.com/maclif/shopprojects/workbench/
Ok - my bench vitals:
7' 1/2" long 
 2' wide 
 33 1/2" tall 
 3 1/2" thick oak top 
 Shaker-inspired closed base 
 enclosed tail vise 
 shoulder vise 
 Woods used: oak, walnut, southern yellow pine, cocobolo 
 With the exception of two pieces of oak, the entire bench was made out of
re-used pallet material or wood from my grandfather's farm (ok, cocobolo was
given to me by a friend). 
 Tools used: 90% hand tools (disstons, baileys, stanleys, and of course a whole
lot more). 

My gloat - total cost of the probably 500 lb monster - $150 or so. 

Well, if you're reading this far into the long-winded bio, I tip my hat to you.
Now, pass the spatoon.

-Clif, Dallas Texas
  

	
		
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