welcome.

I teach at NOBTS, New Orleans, LA, and have been woodworking for about
three years--as a serious hobby.

Welcome.

--- Chris Slack  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In looking through the list archives I've noticed that new members
> seem to generally post a bio. So here's a brief summary of who I am.
>
> My name is Chris Slack, I'm 32 and married to my lovely wife Bethany.
> My background is as a computer engineer, I worked for several years
> designing CT scanners for GE Medical Systems, then spent 3 years
> overseas as a missionary with the Christian aid organization Mercy
> Ships (www.mercyships.org) where I served at the IT manager on board
> the M/V Anastasis (if you like rust you'd have loved that old ship,
> built in 1953 in Trieste, Italy) spending time primarily in West
> Africa (also occasional trips to UK, Holland, Germany, South Africa,
> and Spain) where we provided free surgical care to people in some of
> the poorest countries in the world (I was in Sierra Leone, Guinea,
> Benin, and Liberia). I met my wife on board the Anastasis in 2004 and
> moved back to the US to Virginia in 2005 where I worked for a year as
> a systems architect for Rosetta Stone. This past summer my wife and I
> moved up to S. Hamilton, MA where I am attending Gordon-Conwell
> Theological Seminary working toward my master's degree with the
> intention of pastoring a church after I graduate in a few years.
>
> No longer being actively involved as an engineer prompted desires to
> exercise the creative and design
>
> parts of my brain in a new way, in addition to using my hands for
> something other than writting papers. I had always been interested in
> woodworking and decided that now was the time to make a start. Now,
>
> we live in a 1 bedroom, on-campus apartment so some might argue that
> this was not the best time to decide to take up an interest in
> woodworking, but I just see it as a bit more of a challenge. So I
> began searching the internet to see what exactly one needs in order to
> work with wood and began to find that there seemed to be a thriving
> community of those who use only hand tools. This intrigued me, so I
> began to build up an arsenal of hand tools (some new and some old) and
> built a "portable" workbench (it's portable between rooms but I don't
> look forward to the day when I'll have to move it down any stairs).
> I'm currently still collecting basic tools to use and have built the
> workbench (almost finished) and a shooting board and am in the process
> of my first non-shop project which is a simple wooden toy train. I'm
> quite enjoying the hobby and am looking forward to learning more and
> getting to know those on the list, many of you have already helped me
> greatly though your web sites.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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