Peter

Welcome to the porch.  We are speaking better British English all the time. 
You can help us improve.   I smile at the UK e-bay listings that are now 
"translated".

I agree, I get a thrill in taking a rusty old beater tool, and making it 
look used and loved again, and actually using it.  I'm still a tool user (he 
says furtively stroking the #5 Bedrock plane he was gifted with this 
Christmas.)

My ancestry is Scottish.  My grandmother's ancestors came over from Scotland 
by way of Ireland just in time to fight on the wrong side of the 
Revolutionary War (disagreement about taxes, Jeff) and to have to move again 
to Canada at the end of it.

I find this a wonderful place of wit, wisdom and trivia.  Hope you do to.

Pull up a chair (if you can find one without piles of tools on it) and set a 
spell.

Walt C

Peter wrote:

Ok time to delurk I think, so I'd better introduce myself to the porch.

I'm a Scottish born New Zealander who currently resides back in
Scotland, I'm a biological scientist who shreds wood for a variety of
reasons (SWMBO step forward) and became a convert to hand tools for
both financial reasons and the challenge to see how good I can make
myself with that #7 jointer...
 

 I can see that this take old 'user' tool
and make it work again thing could become a habit....

 From the above you may gather that I am not yet, quite a collector
(he says, teetering wildly on the edge of the precipice, arms
cartwheeling). But if it wasn't for the combination of my heritage
(Father was a Yorkshireman, I'm Scottish), SWMBO and the lack of
money I'd take the plunge, the water looks nice in there.

Peter
Dundee Scotland

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