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165392 | Andrew Bedford <a_bedford@h...> | 2006‑12‑03 | Introduction/Bio |
Fellow Galoots, I'd been reading this list for a few months now, and I figured it was about time to join in on the fun. A little about me.....I'm 24, living in New Brunswick, Canada (brrr). I work as a graphic designer for a software company that produces the insanely complex software that hydrographers/oceanographers use to map the ocean/ocean floor/rivers/lakes...etc etc. I've been woodworking since I was a kid(although I refuse to admit that I am no longer a kid...and I'm sure some of you will agree). My mother used to teach folkart, which meant my father used to have to spend his winter evenings out in the shed buzzing away at the scroll saw....and of course I would be standing there amazed at what my father was doing. And so my obsession with workwood began. Around the age of 12 I took up whitling (I've got the scars to prove it!), a few years later this progressed to relief carving, which then progressed into building furniture that I could detail with carvings. Now..at the same time all of this was going on, I was slowly being influenced by the activist scene. This turned me into a vegetarian/vegan, enviromentalist, primitivist, anti-consumerist, yadda yadda yadda, and all the other "ist's" and "ism's" out there. Now this lead me to the next logical step. I'd have become a devout galoot! So I gave away all my power tools...which left me standing there scratching my head, and thinking "well, now what do I do". Well I slowly started figuring stuff out, and It's been 2 years since my powered days, and I love it. It's the most relaxing, thrilling, and engaging thing I've ever persued. My antique/homemade tool collection is progressing very nicely. Yeah, so I've been completely broke for a few years, but I've got tools! Who needs groceries when you can have one more plane! :) So, this is me..and I look forward to spending years obsorbing the collective knowledge and experience this list has to offer. Your humbled apprentice, Andrew Bedford _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage. aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314- 9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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165401 | Marvin Paisner <paisners@s...> | 2006‑12‑03 | Re: Introduction/Bio |
Hello Andrew, Welcome to the Porch, you will get no argument, at least not from me, if you want to call yourself a kid at 24. And there is no question that you are indeed a Galoot. Keep a lookout for edged tools made by "JOSIAH FOWLER CO. LTD. ST.JOHN N.B." (that's how he stamped Saint John on his tools). The chisels and a drawknife of his manufacture that I picked up years ago when still living in the Maritimes are of top quality. IMHO. Hope the vegetarian life style has not kept you away from the Moosehead ;^) regards, Marv Paisner Kootenay Lake, BC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Bedford" > > I'd been reading this list for a few months now, and I figured it was about time to join in on the fun. |
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165469 | Adriaan Gerber <adriaang@y...> | 2006‑12‑06 | Re: Introduction/Bio |
Andrew >Now..at the same time all of this was going on, I was slowly being >influenced by the activist scene. This turned me into a vegetarian/vegan, >enviromentalist, primitivist, anti-consumerist, yadda yadda yadda, and >all the other "ist's" and "ism's" out there. Now this lead me to the >next logical step. I'd have become a devout galoot! So I gave away all >my power tools...which left me standing there scratching my head, and Welcome to the porch! Somehow I can't see your email address on the digest? I sense we have some OT interests to share :> Pull up a chair and have some tofu salad :> Adriaan Ps: Thanks very much to everyone who has replied to my question on the timber framing tools and a special thanks to David Lucier who has very generously offered to lend me a few items, you guys are great! "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." - Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman _______________________________________________________________________- _____________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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