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157002 "Clay Risenhoover" <crisenhoover@s...> 2006‑02‑14 Bio and a question
Greetings great and gentle galoots,

After about a month of lurking on this list, and a trip to Bedford, TX a
couple of weekends ago (thanks, Frank, for posting about the SWTCA tool
meet down there) where I bought a #5 and a #6 (Stanley jack and fore
plane, Jeff) to go with my MF 9C (smoother, Jeff), it is finally time
for me to stand somewhere near the edge of the porch and introduce
myself.

I am Director of Network Operations (computer geek, Jeff) for a public
university in Oklahoma, so I spend my days using things that plug in and
make noise (server rooms have always been loud and oppressive to me).
This being a state job, I also spend many of my nights and weekends
doing networking and security consulting for area businesses, so I can
afford to continue working my day job, and to buy a few tools. I _do_
love working for the school, though - it's the only job I've ever had
that gets a spring break and two weeks off for Christmas every year.

All that time looking at computers and thinking about IP addresses,
firewalls, servers and acronymic technologies, has made me want to turn
my occasional woodworking endeavors into a less-plugged-in experience.

So, I picked up a couple of planes, have been teaching myself hand-cut
dovetail techniques (will post pictures when I feel worthy), and will be
building a workbench with my dad in a couple of weekends. (Dad taught me
to love working with wood, and it is _so_ cool to be able to share it
with him. I'm glad I realized how much I like him while he's still
around... Last year we did all the trim carpentry and laid a LOT of wood
flooring together in my new house.)

Dad's got a small stash of old planes we dug out and have been going
through, and I'm a proficient enough Scary Sharp-ener to tune the blades
up okay (I have the scars on the ends of my fingers to prove it). One of
his planes, a No 4 (Type 16, I think - still learning to be a
blood-and-gore aficionado) is missing the chipbreaker screw (I hope my
terminology is correct; it's the screw that joins the iron and the
chipbreaker). If you guys can point me to a source for spare parts, I'd
sure appreciate it. In fact, I might even rehab his no. 78
(Rabbet/bullnose plane with a missing fence, no depth stop, and a
stuck-tight spur, Jeff).

Nice to meet you all. Hope to be here for a while.

-Clay Risenhoover, A+, N+, Sec+, Linux+, MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP, GSEC,
GCIA, GSNA, and now, finally, GIT

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