I'll begin with a lie and a challenge...

I have enough tools.

If you guess what tool I'm specifically thinking of as I write this, it's 
yours. It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other tool 
I use. Just about, anyway.

I really don't want to bore anyone, so most of what I would say will most 
likely come out over time in posts. Briefly, my grandfather and great uncle 
could be blamed for my use of hand tools. It's the way I grew up. I have 
only myself to blame for their apparent breeding within my shop. I never 
knew they were suppose to be kept separate in things like saw tills and 
plane cabinets for much too long.

I have lurked, off and on, for some time and due to the pesky, recurring 
encouragement of a few here have decided to delurk--much to the detriment of 
all concerned.

So I welcome the opportunity to share what little I do possess in exchange 
for the wealth of information which is the OldTools list.

Mike Wenzloff 

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On Friday, September 30, 2005, at 05:19PM, Wenzloff & Sons
 wrote:

>It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other tool

The foundation of every other tool is a sharp edge.

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WmSC suggests:
> On Friday, September 30, 2005, at 05:19PM, Wenzloff & Sons
>> It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other tool
>
> The foundation of every other tool is a sharp edge.
>

Oh, I'd have guessed 'workbench' mself.  But, on reconsideration, I'll
change my answer to what Norm *should* consider the most important
safety item in the shop instead of his glasses -- yer brain.

cur - and if it's anything like mine right now, it ain't worth shipping.

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On Friday 30 September 2005 17:11, Wenzloff & Sons wrote:
> I'll begin with a lie and a challenge...
> 
> I have enough tools.
> 
> If you guess what tool I'm specifically thinking of as I write this, it's 
> yours. It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other 
tool 
> I use. Just about, anyway.
> 
> I really don't want to bore anyone, so most of what I would say will most 
> likely come out over time in posts. Briefly, my grandfather and great uncle 
> could be blamed for my use of hand tools. It's the way I grew up. I have 
> only myself to blame for their apparent breeding within my shop. I never 
> knew they were suppose to be kept separate in things like saw tills and 
> plane cabinets for much too long.
> 
> I have lurked, off and on, for some time and due to the pesky, recurring 
> encouragement of a few here have decided to delurk--much to the detriment 
of 
> all concerned.
> 
> So I welcome the opportunity to share what little I do possess in exchange 
> for the wealth of information which is the OldTools list.
> 
> Mike Wenzloff 

This sounds pretty far fetched...I bet you'll now tell us you built your own 
log home in a past life...

Good to see you around here! I'm fairly new here myself...;-)

-- 

Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration
GPG: 1024D/B7A9EBEE 5E00 57CD 5336 5E0B 288B 4126 0D49 0D99 B7A9 EBEE

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>
>On Friday, September 30, 2005, at 05:19PM, Wenzloff & Sons 
> wrote:
>
>>It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other tool
>
>The foundation of every other tool is a sharp edge.

I expect he's talking about the one made of meat, bones, blood and brains.

I just used that one to build an "extended truck-key fisher-outer 
from available materials for use when 120 miles from home and you've 
just pulled a stupid"
-- 
-Lawrence H Smith, Librarian/Computarian for Buxton School and Woodworker
-lsmith@s...      Cats, Coffee, Chocolate... Vices to live by.
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I'm voting for a knife, but he is a clever rascal and may indeed refer
to a razor.

On Friday, September 30, 2005, at 10:29PM,  wrote:

>GG, Y'all are getting the answer right its a sharp edge but what tool?
>
> I guess straight-razor...second would be pocketknife, but I
> occasionaly go a day or two without using it. roy
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GG,
 Y'all are getting the answer right its a sharp edge but what tool?

 I guess straight-razor...second would be pocketknife, but I occasionaly
go a day or two without using it.
roy

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   It can't be brains or brawn.  He said he'd send it to whoever guessed 
and , well, I'd need a picture at the very least. Would that be postage 
collect in a crate?
 "Hello, Charlie's Morgue and Salvage. We have your parts"
 
    I guess knife.
    yours, Scott

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Mike Wenzloff says:

I'll begin with a lie and a challenge...

I have enough tools.

If you guess what tool I'm specifically thinking of as I write this, it's
yours. It's a tool I use everyday and is the foundation for every other tool
I use. Just about, anyway.

I really don't want to bore anyone, so most of what I would say will most
likely come out over time in posts. Briefly, my grandfather and great uncle
could be blamed for my use of hand tools. It's the way I grew up. I have
only myself to blame for their apparent breeding within my shop. I never
knew they were suppose to be kept separate in things like saw tills and
plane cabinets for much too long.

I have lurked, off and on, for some time and due to the pesky, recurring
encouragement of a few here have decided to delurk--much to the detriment of
all concerned.

So I welcome the opportunity to share what little I do possess in exchange
for the wealth of information which is the OldTools list.

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My guess is a pencil.  Can't make what you can't imagine, or draw.

David Scott
(still trying to figure out this digest thing...)

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Nobody has guessed a "hand" as being the foundation. I could see it. And,
I've already got one.

Matthew Groves

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