I originally sent this yesterday and have no idea where in the hell it
wound up.
Really enjoying this list!

-CH

NOW WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT YESTERDAY

Hello fellow galoots.

After more than a year of off and on lurking and watching I am finally
on the porch!  Why the hesitation you may ask? Well I wanted to see if
this was genuine tomfoolery or not.  Anywho about me I am a Masters student in
Public Administartion at Southwest Missouri State University.  I live on
a farm in a house built in 1869 of rock and oak timber construction.  I live
with SWMBO, 2 dogs and 1 cat.  (We had 2 cats but one got shot in a hunting
accident ha ha)

I come from a furniture background as 2 of my g g uncles were
professional cabinet makers and later owned a piano factory.  Saddly
there tool chests went up in flames when our barn was burned by some boys my
grandpa sent to the pen.

Anyway I have always been interested in woodworking but never really had
any grounding or guidance  until I discovered a dust covered volume of
Michael Dunbar's handtool book from the late 70's.  To my desire this
gave some grounding and guidance. Absorbing this and turning to the internet I
was
soon able to acquire a lot of knowledge and tools.

I hope to finish my toolbox, (SWMBO is really after me to get the huge
pile o'planes out of the living room floor), then build a shaving horse
and eventually either a log or timberframe workshop, (as demonstrated by Roy
Underhill in book #1).

Now that the introduction is over I have a question.

In Missouri the humidity is awful as is the seasonal change drastic.  As
my  grandma said, "if you don't like the weather in Missouri just wait a
day." How can I protect my tools from rust without altering their
appearance or devaluing them?