Thanks for the clarification. You guys are much more polite in your
corrections than some other groups I've been associated with. I think I
might like it here...
-Clay
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Holloway [mailto:holloway@n...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:31 PM
To: Clay Risenhoover
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Bio and a question
Glad to see you here, Clay. Just one detail: in Porch parlance, GET
(Galoot In Training) refers to *children*, usually of the Galoot in
question. If you're here and interested in hand woodworking tools
and their use, you are a Galoot, regardless of level of skill,
experience, or size of tool accumulation.
Tom
On Feb 14, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Clay Risenhoover wrote:
> 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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