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133733 | mimulus@p... | 2004‑05‑25 | Bio |
After a year of mostly lurking, some posting and always enjoying, it's been brought to my attention that I should introduce myself. Born in Wisconsin, which is just north of Chicago (Paddy) and south of the Great White North (Jeff). After an uninspired time in highschool, I cast about for meaning at the local university and exited with a degree in physics. This gave me the confidence (i.e. diploma) so necessary-but-insufficient when fishing for jobs. This search led me out West where experience wasn't so important as having lots of money to pay the exhorbitant rents. Eventually landed a short term software job working for some astronomers in the desert, where I decided I should forstall a midlife crisis by changing careers and going back to school. I met my wife and kids in gradschool, where we both studied soil science and botany. Life is good. So with all this sciencey background, I still lacked a clue as to how some people with little or no understanding of vector calculus could make things like houses, furniture, horse shoes and plumbing that didn't leak. How did they know that 2x4 was doug fir without an electrophoretic examination? And what makes all those different wood planes look so exotic, so durn coool, and -mmmmmm- so that's what it feels like to make a shaving. That was really nice. Thank you. Ten bucks for the bench plane? You got a deal... So now I'm hooked. Haven't made a thing other than blood stains yet, but I know I'm hooked. Not sure what avenue I'd like to persue -- dovetailed cabinetry, rustic/green woodorking, boat building, timberframing, or something along that line. I imagine I should figure that out soon, with assistance from the porch. Thanks for your patience, fore and aft. Curt Seeliger Corvallis, Oregon |
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144844 | roygriggs@v... | 2005‑04‑17 | Re: Bio |
GG, Welcome Peter, jump on in its cheap, after all its just old tools...(hey hey hey). roy,Broken Arrow,Oklahoma USA ______________________________________________________________ |
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144881 | "Walt Cheever" <waltc@m...> | 2005‑04‑18 | re: Bio |
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... |
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145315 | roygriggs@v... | 2005‑04‑29 | Re: Bio |
GG, Welcome to the porch Roland, I think you'll find you are among like minded friends here. roy ______________________________________________________________ |
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