Welcome Peter,

No need to apologize, your English is pretty good.  Easier to understand
than John G's.  Anyhow, I'm impressed with your bio.

Jack

Peter Lundin wrote:
> 
> Greetings Neanderthals, (and Neandertalettes)
> 
> After a week of lurking, I feel that it's time to dive in, My name is
> Peter Lundin, I live In Gothenburg, Sweden (that's to the left of Nothern
> Russia on the map folks) I'm actually a former professional cabinetmaker
> - in the sence that have all the formal qualifications (schools and
> apprenticeship) but I don't work making furniture professionaly any more.
> Nope, by one of those fortunate U-turns that life takes I got a chance to
> make one of my 'hobbies' my line of livelyhood -  that is; historical
> pianos - so these days I build them, study them, and occasionally write
> things about them at the University of Gothenburg.
> 
> I have been working with wood since before I could walk, I'm literary
> stuffed with sawdust from growing up in my uncles' workshop. Besides
> wood, Music has been the other major factor in my life, playing guitar
> and piano. And thus, a combination of the both has always come natural to
> me. I also belive that growing up in a rural village, on the island,
> Gotland (in the middle of the Baltic sea, also to the left of Russia on
> the map) had a very positive influence on me, I never rush to anything,
> You know, each tool has it's day.
> 
> To be honest, My tool collecting is very random, I rearly buy tools
> because they are collectors items, nope, I usualy let stuff pass by if I
> can not find a proper use for it in the shop. Still, it's my deepest
> feeling that most old tools are superior to the things produced to day
> (Yes, I know there are exeptions) - anyway as a piano builder (and
> cabinetmaker) I very often end up building the tool I need myself, and
> thats one of the joys of beeing a neanderthal. You have to lern the in's
> and out's of several neighbouring crafts. Coming to planes, I'm the
> wooden type of guy, mostly because it'll take me an hour to make one I
> can use for a lifetime.
> 
> Looking at this, I've probobly left out everything interesting about
> myself, anyway I hope I can contribute to some of the on going threads,
> and even help creating one or two myself... enough now, got to get back
> to the workbench, I have to finish the new assembly table I'm building
> for the shop...
> 
> -A day not spent learning, is a day lost.
> 
> Ps/ I appologize to the list's gramathical police, English is only my
> third language, and I've only been at it for so long. So; if I use some
> unidiomatic turns, it's just because the English language fails me  8^)
> 
> ptr
> 
> ^

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