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11538 | Bruce Mosher <bmosher@s...> | 1997‑01‑05 | Bio |
Galoots (and others, who may look respectable),... I'd forgotten about the request of a bio,...(till I saw Carey's today) I'm Bruce Mosher, Williamston, Michigan, USA. Happily married (she likes me to buy tools,... as she wants the fruit of their employment), two wonderful children (altho my 14 yr old has purple hair this week). I am employed as a design engineer for a manufacturer of high temp insulators & heaters (to 3050° F). On a very part time basis, I build custom hardwood furniture. A busy year is 2-3 commissions. I make sure that I don't develop a dependency on WW $, as I want it to always be something I do because I enjoy it, not a way to earn money. My shop floor is littered with p*w*r cords, as I don't have the demeanor to do everything by hand. I enjoy a sharp hand plan tho,... I'm not good enough to have a STYLE,... but I think I will in just another 20-25 years. I have a nice shop (16x26) that sits above the garage and looks out on the Red Cedar river. Now that I'm almost done with the addition o the house, I get to spend several nights a week out there. I'm toying with putting in dust collection. My most recent toy is a 37" Clement band saw (patent 1879!!!! does that qualify me for a Galoot decoder ring?),.... it's been out of service for years,.. after owning myself for over a year, I finally put a motor on it earlier tonight,.... after about 15 minutes it burnt out the controller (I was trying to use a DC motor on it). So I'm back in the market for a good source of revolution for the saw (I suppose that, as a Jr Galoot, I should be looking at the river in the back yard,....). - - After reading the above, if I didn't know me, I'd think "sounds like a rich guy".... but believe me, I'm not,... I just focus a lot of my resources into woodworking. If ever any of you are heading through the mid-Michigan area, let me know, I'll put on some coffee! |
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11558 | Bill Cooper <bruno8@p...> | 1997‑01‑05 | Re: Bio |
------------129549FC7C150 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by primenet.com id QAA29216 Bhermanek@a... wrote: I know this was long but I guarantee you=92ll never get anything this long from me again other than a for sale list. Bill Hermanek Welcome Bill! Well, er, ah, 2000 tools? Um, you wouldn't mind sending me that FS list an hour before you forward it to the listserve, would ya? Enjoy the list Bill, these guys are a blast. Bill C. ------------129549FC7C150 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by primenet.com id QAA29216 I know this was long but I guarantee you=92ll never get anything t= his long from me again other than a for sale list. Bill Hermanek Welcome Bill! |
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11768 | James Foster <jaf@m...> | 1997‑01‑10 | Re: Bio |
> > Bob Lockwood > > PS: Is there a such thing as planing elbow? I really aggravated mine one > day after several hours of planing. I'm hoping this is due to working on a > bench which is to high and that when I get the new bench done this won't be > an issue. > Welcome, Bob! There probably is, but the too high bench is probably causing it. I've got a case of wood splitting/shoveling elbow that wasn't aggravated with the large amount of planing I did last weekend, so I don't think planing per se is too hard on it. I did get very sore triceps muscles on my left arm though. And was tired and sore overall from the Kirbyesque body motions. You can't quite understand what he's talking about until you get a solid bench at the right height and go at a board with well tuned planes. I think I'm going to have to learn to plane left handed in order to make sure I develop muscles evenly. B^) There's also #45 honing syndrome caused by getting a #45 and trying to hone all the blades. It basically involves hand cramps and blisters in odd places. B^) (No, not _that_ odd!!) |
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11794 | Paul A. Lalonde <lalonde@c...> | 1997‑01‑10 | Re: Bio |
In message 01BBFE4D.9BB88A40@w...you write: >I'm a 33 year old father of three (6 week old girl, 3 year old boy, 6 year >old girl). I spend most of my waking hours under the employment of >Tektronix. I grew up in south western VA, but relocated to OR three years >ago after receiving my Masters of Computer Science from the University of >VA. Welcome aboard - I'm just finishing off my Ph.D. in C.S. - I've found these the most productive woodworking years yet... >After finishing my bench I hope to sell my benchtop table saw and buy a bow >saw with the proceeds. I'm sure I'll have some questions for the group as >the bench proceeds. Ooh....Save your money. Build the bow saw. Dirt simple, and blades are easy to find - a good sharpenning and blade shop will sell them to you for about 10 cents an inch. I posted something a few days ago on how to put a saw together which I can drop you again if you like - it takes about an hour (including the minuscure amount of metal work, which only requires a hacksaw and a drill) and the result is very satisfying. Same thing goes for marking gauges and panel gauges - really quick and immediately useful. And besides, someday someone will show up at your shop with a church full of pews to give you, and you'll regret not having a tablesaw or bandsaw to rip the damned moldings off the top of this great lumber. (True story, except that I had to pick up the pews myself - white oak, about 800 usable BF, it was a small church. Been using a lot of oak lately...) As for planing elbow, can't say I've ever had that, although I've buggered my wrists morticing with an under-weighted mallet (mind you that really agravating a previously existing condition of key-board wrists). Paul Internet: lalonde@c... Web: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lalonde/homepage.html "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible aux yeux" - Antoine de St.-Exupery |
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12653 | Larry McVoy <lm@n...> | 1997‑01‑28 | Re: BIO |
: My bench is pretty well fixed with saws, and planes from the small and long : ends of the spectrum, but I'm beginning to fill out the middle. At this : point I'm beginning a low key hunt for a decent smoother. In my experience, there are a couple of non-obvious places to go for a decent smoother. The obvious places are Patrick & L-N. 1. I have a John Gage smoother that I can sharpened with a slight curve, such that when it is set fine it has less than an inch of cutting area. I can get stuff so fine that you can easily read through it. 2. I have a Stiletto brand #4 clone that has an old fashioned (thick at the cutting end) blade. That sucker is a great smoother, gives my L-N #4 some serious competition (but doesn't have an adjustable mouth type deal like the L-N). The curved blade trick is key. I think you can take any old junker plane that has a reasonable frog - i.e., one that doesn't chatter, and curve the blade until it works. Try it. |
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