At 08:34 PM 2/7/00 -0800, Rick Kessler wrote:

Most of bio snipped...
First, welcome! Here take my chair (they don't let me have a rocker yet)

>The current project I'm working on is a modest 5700 s.f. home with exposed
>clear redwood beams throughout. You ought to see the looks on the
>apprentices' faces when my working partner Bubba (his real name) and I roll
>out the chisels and planes to mill these beams to fit their brackets.

Are you really telling us you do it this way on-the-job, not-on-TV,
real-life, day-to-day?
If so, here, take PL's vacant rocker.  Maybe the two of us and Bubba could
get him to agree.  or not.

Back to chisels and planes...
It really is quicker and easier for that kind of situation, isn't it?

Gene