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55387 "Thomas Graham" <tmajgraham@e...> 1999‑01‑01 Resend: Bio - Tom Graham
Original should not have been send HTML.  So says Ken Staggs.  Hope
this does it.

I've been lurking long enough.  Thought I should fess up and post my bio.
Not that it is extensive.  I live in the little town of Round Hill, VA at
the base
of the Blue Ridge west of Wasnington, DC.  For you Hooters, I can see
West Virginia from my from porch.

I've been into old tools and traditional industries for the last 20 years or
so,
but more as an observer than as a hard core doer.  Call me a latent Galoot.
Hoefully that will change in mid-1999 when, if the numbers look right. I
will retire
after 30+ years working for Uncle Sam.  That will give me the time (no more
getting up a 4AM five days a week) to try some of the stuff I have been
seeing
and thinking about for years.

I collect a little, mostly Millers Falls, but have been known to buy things
that
strike my fancy.  Like an ice say (more than five feet long and where dod
you store it) I got at an auction in Vermont.  Living in Virginai there is
not a lot
of ice to get in (as my long suffering SWMBO points out from time to time).
Of course, one also need an ice house, not a common thing anymore either.
Most of the old tools have been bought with the intention of using rather
than collecting.  I think there is only one, a Millers Falls #85 MIB.  I
will confess,
however, that I also have a cordless drill which I consider to be one of
God's
great inventions (along with duct tape, paper towels, yellow post-its, and
the
glue gun).

Are newbies all owed a gloat, even one that occurred a few years ago?  If
they are, I would tell you about the Stanley #340 furring plane I got in a
box
with six other planes at a Vermont Country auction.  Didn't know what I had
until recently when I almost fell off my chair on learning.  Call it a
belated gloat.

I'm also into alphabets, i.e. PATINA, WMTCA, EAIA.  I spend fare too much
time looking at Ebay's hand tool offerings and trying to stifle may
acquisitive
impulses.  Within the last year I became a volunteer at Aldie Mill, an old
overshot two iron wheel grist mill in Aldie, VA.  It is still being
repaired, so
it is not yet in operation.  Come by for a look.

Thanks for bearing with me (again),

Tom Graham
(tmajgraham@e...)



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