With another FMM  coming, I've realized that I should delurk before the
deluge.

I'm 51 years old, a founder of an 16 year old software company with 25
employees and a woodworker for about 2 years.  The software business
produces products that are intangible.  My basement wood shop produces
results that real and long lasting.

I am most turned on by producing useful high quality output.  The
opportunity to use the finest handtools to me is a bonus that comes with
the production of useful wooden projects.  To date I have built:

        Shop projects (mostly from Shopnotes):  Workbench, r**t*r table,
glue-up station, pl*n*r stand
        Sewing Center for SWMBO:  Cutting table, 8' double knee hole
work desk with raised panels, book case
        Maple and Walnut rolling kitchen cart
        Mahogany Deck Furniture:  2 garden benches, four dining
armchairs, octagonal dining table, coffee table

I attended a class in Windsor chairmaking this spring and completed a
comb back chair.  All parts other than the seat where hewn from a just
cut red oak tree.  This was an evening program with a lot of homework
required.  I built a shaving horse and picked up a fairly good supply of
old chairmaking tools:  drawknives, spokeshaves (both wooden and metal),
froe, hewing hatchet, brace, spoon bit, old auger bits and an inshave.

I have accumulated a fairly decent set of mostly stanley planes.  I have
purchased some from tool dealers (mostly Falcon-Wood which is nearby)
and some from assorted antique dealers and shows.  After much agonizing,
I bought a Tormek sharpening system at a woodworking show.  This is an
outstanding system which I recommend to any woodworker who loves a sharp
edge and doesn't want to spend hours fussing with his blades.

I have some more projects promised but I look forward to building some
more chairs this year.

Jim Lunden
Avon, CT