High everyone, my name is Terry Spencer and I survive in Austin, Texas.
Thanks for letting me join you on the porch. Not much to tell, except
I'm definitely a GIT. To put food on the table and clothes on the back
of SWMBO (not to mention a daughter in med school), I work as an
electrical engineer for that gargantuan computer company in Central
Texas.
My father was extremely mechanically inclined so I grew up working on
cars, motorcycles, lawnmowers, or just about anything that used gasoline
and made a lot of noise. I've always been reasonably good at working
with my hands and actually made a living as a goldsmith in my younger
years. However, creating something functional from wood (let alone
pleasing to the eye) didn't capture my interest until I liberated a
broken bench top table saw from a neighbors trash pile.
After sawing and nailing together a couple of bookshelves I was hooked
and quickly started amassing every tailed beast I could cram into my
garage. It wasn't until a couple of years later during a trip to
Colonial Williamsburg that hand tools first caught my eye. What those
guys did with hand planes and a treadle lathe was nothing short of
amazing. The following summer we went to Plymouth Plantation and that
sealed my fate as a hand tool junkie. As soon as we returned home I
enrolled in a one week "Developing Hand Tool Techniques" class. Shortly
thereafter, I acquired my first hand plane, a Bedrock 605 =BD (heavy
jack, Jeff), and have been scouring yard-sales and flea-markets ever
since.
Thanks for allowing me on the porch. At 49, I might be a little old to
learn many new tricks, but I plan on giving it my best shot. Who knows,
from time-to-time, even I might be able to impart a little wisdom.
Terry Spencer
Dell Storage Engineering
CSD RAID Engineer
terry_spencer@d...
Office: 512.725.2575
Lab: 512.725.0080
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