Hi Tom,

From one wRECk.normite to another, welcome.  I'm still feelin' like the new
guy here, but it's all good.  Happy, friendly, helpful bunch.  Pull up a
crawlspace here under the Porch and enjoy.

Jon Endres, PE
West Mountain Engineering

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Watson [mailto:tjwatson@s...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: oldtools
> Subject: [oldtools] Just sayin' hello.
>
>
> Hi, my name is Tom Watson and I'm a recovering rec.normer.  I've come here
> to get in out of the rain (and it rains aplenty on rec.norm) and this here
> porch looks mighty inviting.  I'm a cabinetmaker by trade and have a host
> of tailed tools, both large and small.  Still, there's a Stanley 55 tucked
> away in my neander cabinet out in the shop and a few galootish devices
> that I use on a day to day basis.
>
> I live one county south of the Mercer Museum, which I believe to be a
> Galootish Shrine and at which I have lit a candle or two while standing
> with mouth agape at the wonders wrought by our forebearers.  Although I
> started my woodworking journey during the sixties, with a Rockwell 315 in
> hand and an attitude, I was reading 'A Reverence For Wood' at the same
> time and have always felt the pull of that sort of thinking.
>
> I'm looking to move my business from building big ole liberries,
> bookcases, kitsch cabinets and such, to making traditional furniture on
> spec that I'd like to make using a combination of Normite and Neander
> techniques.
>
> My primary interest just now is to learn about the acquisition, tuning and
> making of molding planes, to be used in making this vaporware furniture.
>
> This seems like a good place to learn about such things and so I stand,
> hat in hand, and ask if you might find a small, out of the way spot in
> some porchly backwater (don't have to be a clean spot) where I might
> crouch for a spell and learn with eyes and ears.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom.
> Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker
> tjwcabinetmaker.com
>
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