Welcome to the Porch, Martin!  Glad to see you made it!

- Bill T.

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From: oldtools-bounces@r...
[mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of familie Hagen
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:04 AM
To: oldtools@r...
Subject: [OldTools] bio-martin hagen

Hello people of the porch after been lurking at the old tools archive (watch
it everyday) and read all the posts. I was first listed through yahoo but
was unable to sent messages so i hope this one gets posted. I am also
registered at Richmond tool group. And got my first mail from Bill Taggert
he also said that i try the oldtools list. My name is Martin i am 40 years
and i am married and have two boys age 8 and 12 i live in Heemskerk the
Netherlands and work in Amsterdam as a teacher furniture making at the
oldest furniture craftsschool in the netherlands which was founded in 1928.
I am en ex student from this school where i have been trained as an
furniture restorer which has been my proffesion for allmost 10 years and the
last 5 years i am working fulltime as an teacher but i do occasional a small
restoration job for relativesor family. My passion is collecting functional
woodworking tools and i am searching the internet for info on tools. I am
also a member of the Dutch toolcollectors organisation called ambacht en
gereedschap. Visit it at: www.ambachtengereedschap.nl i also collect
furniture reference books and tool books. And books about furniture
restoration. The pride of my tool collection is an spiers coffin style
smoother from around 1885/1890 which i bought at the big freemarket at
queensday in Amsterdam (a big jumble sale) where i had to pay 5 euro's. This
type of plane has been on my wantlist for a long time and i could hardly
believe my eyes. This was an great day my friends who where with me allmost
started dripping when they saw my find. I also found a stanley 51 and 55
spokeshave marked with the rule and level logo. I also try to bring the love
for handwork and classic handtools on to my students at home i work mostly
with handtools which will make no noise. I am not a purist but love the way
a well tuned tool does the work. The last tool i bought was 2 weeks ago it
is an chamfer spokeshave from stanley no. 65 marked with the s-w. Logo. I
would like to discuss wiht the other members on topics like restoration and
ethics and tool restoration. So hope to hear from you. 
Greetings, Martin 

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