Greetings Galoot,
As this is my first post here is the mandatory bio. I was born in Indiana
and moved to Texas at
age 12. I served in the U.S. Navy from 1976 to 1980, the U.S. Army from 1985
to 1993, and am
currently serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve. I live in San Antonio, Texas
with LOML and two GITs. My
day job is at one of the local hospitals as a Surgical First Assistant, I
specialize in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.
My interest in woodworking started as a kid. My father had a ShopSmith as
well as a number of
Galoot type tools. My brother and I were always building things like go
carts and forts, as well as
turning things on the lathe. My intrest was renewed when I left the Army and
bought a house in
San Antonio, Texas. Lots of things needed repairs so I learned plumbing, Dry
wall, Tiling etc. The bug really bit when we visited my brother in Ohio and
I built a couple of benches in his well equipped
Cabinet Shop (His hobby Spot). Many electons were consumed. On returning
home I started
studying and trying my hand at various projects, all very normite. I was
mobilized in 2005 and took a
short vacation in Southwest Asia. When I got home I had amassed enough cash
to buy my own
ShopSmith from a widow who also tried to sell me her husband's forge and
Blacksmith tools. I was
very tempted but had nowhere to use it, and SWMBO pointed out that the Bank
Account would
not stand the strain. I got frustrated with all the Woodworking magazine
atricle about tools I did not have and methods of work involving them to
build the projects they featured. I started to think I good do most of these
things with hand tools for a fraction of the cost and not nearly as much
set-up time. For instance, I could plane board with a hand plane instead of
a 400-500 dollar
thickness planer. I started to watch the unnamed electioic auction site fore
a good plane. That was
the start of the slippery slope. In the last three months my old tool
aquizitions include a #4 type 17,
a #5 tyoe 19, a #7 type 17, a Dunlap #4 clone, an unnamed Scube plane, a
Disston #7 with a damaged handle, an A-4 panel saw by Pennsylvania Saw Corp,
A 125+ year old Broad Ax, and other
small items. Now I mostly use my (cheap) contractors saw as a work table and
my Mitre saw stand as a planing bench. I have been lurking for a couple of
weeks and decided to crawl out from under
the porch and admit my addiction. Hi, my name is Pete and I'm a Galoot
(wannabe).
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