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154968 Roy Smith <olyr55@y...> 2006‑01‑08 Fwd: Bio
--- Roy Smith  wrote:

> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:46:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Roy Smith 
> Subject: Bio
> To: OldTools@r...
> 
>   Hello Galoots,
>   My name is Roy Smith, please alow me to introduce
> myself.I have been lurking for the past 18 mo or so
> , its nice and cool and shady here under the porch.
> I guess its time to crawl out , dust myself off and
> be counted.
>   I have been involved in  conrtruction for the last
> 30 yrs.I'm a journyman carpenter , who for the last
> 26 years has been employed as construction
> superintendent.When I started my apprenticeship , we
> were required to carry ,  a large and small yankee
> screw driver , 4 hand saws, 2 rip saws , and 2
> crosscuts saws, a low angle block plane , steel
> rafter square , levels , etc. etc. .
>   Construction , and a wife , with a masters degree,
> have allowed me to pursue my first calling , raising
> Limousine cattle. When a tornado came thruogh 10
> years ago, and blew the roof off the barn closest to
> the house , swmbo, suggested that I take the
> insurance money and turn the barn into a woodshop. I
> suspect she had an ultirior motive, after 20 yrs she
> wanted to park her car in the garage.
>   About the same time, I discovered the old tool
> slope.At a farm auction I purhased a Stanley # 8 ,
> type 7 with a 386 jointer gauge attached , and for
> the paltry sum of $15 , I was off to the races .I
> didn't slip down the slope , I took a flyin leap. My
> long suffering
>   wife breathed a sigh of relief . After going
> through the 2 cyl. John Deere tractor collecting
> phase , which I must admit was , a bit pricey , she
> thought that anything   purchased , for under $50 , 
> was a refreshing change . Well things went good for
> a couple of years , because , after all its a lot
> easier to sneek a new tool onto the place than a new
> tractor.But I'll be damned,when I wasn't watching , 
> those tools started breeding in the dark recesses of
> my shop . Next thing I knew they were marching 
> across the wagon yard and into the house.This drew
> some minor comment from
>   swmbo , nothing for a stepper though . Then  one
> day my office filled up with tools,
>   and, I began eyeing my daughters bedroom , she was
> away at college , and surely
>   wouldn't notice a few planes, on her infrequent
> visits home. But swmbo certainly 
>   noticed, it was at this point that she realized ,
> I was no longer a congregant at the 1st Church  of
> the Rusty Tractor , but that I had become a wild
> eyed high priest at 
>   the alter of Stanley. After much wailing ,
> knashing of teeth and wearing of sack cloth,
>   I think , she has finally accepted my new passion.
> Any way she occaionally gets a 
>   piece of furniture out of the shop , and that
> seems to assauge her grief .
>   I hope that I can make some meaningful
> contribution from time to time.
>   Thanks, 
>   Roy
>   Remember you can have to many wives , but never to
> many tools!
> 
> 
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