--- 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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Roy:

Glad to have you on board.  Journeyman you say, hey now we have someone who 
knows what he is doing.  Anybody who liked John Deere tractors is all right 
in my book.  Collect?  I had a hard enough time trying to pay for one.
                               Welcome,
                               Bob Sturgeon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Smith" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: [OldTools] 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> Yahoo! Photos - Showcase holiday pictures in
>> hardcover
>>  Photo Books. You design it and we'll bind it!
>
>
>
>
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