Pete, Sounds like you already got the credentials to sit on the
Porch! Welcome to our world! Now for a drive-by gloat to attach. I
am typing this with my four week-old Gitette-g'daughter on my other
arm! Talk about good tools! I owe my DIL/Son big time. But, I
digress! You have come upon the happiest group of wood butchers I
have ever had the pleasure to know! Just be careful where ya set yer
root beer down as I have heard tell that some of these Galoots chew
on their cuds on occassion and can spit really good! Paul in Normal
On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Peter Potter wrote:
> 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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