Doug Wellington wrote:

> Well, one day of reading this list and I feel at home already!
> Thanks to everybody who replied to me about Keen Kutter.
> 
> Who am I? Well... Hmmm... The easy stuff: 38, married (second time) to
> Andrea, two kids, daughter Alkyrie ("al-ker-ee") 6, son Alex 2. Currently
> working as a computer and network system administrator at The University of
> Arizona in Tucson, AZ, USA.

 

All I gotta say is in aanother age you would have been a renaisance man.


> because my kids are outgrowing their room, so I went to look for bunkbeds
> for them. For $650 I'll make them myself, thank you very much! I figure
> that if I can buy the tools and do it for the same price as contracting it
> out, I'll definitely do it myself (whatever "it" is). The two most fun

One of the sotr of unwritten rules here is that you ALWAYS need to buy
another tool to work on a new project.

> projects I'm involved with right now are restoring an old wooden machinist's
> toolchest and getting my dad's and granddad's tools back into shape.

Legacies are great.

> Hmm, this could be blasphemy:

Umm, yeah.

> I love hand tools, but I'm not afraid to use power either. I recently
> purchased a Delta 10" radial arm saw, and I have an assortment of other

Let me explain proper Galoot spelling, if the tailed apprentice must mentioned
at all. It's a r*d**l *rm s*w, okay. BTW, alot of use them, we just don't
mention them.

> OK, enough blabbing! I'm gonna go sit in my corner of the porch for
> a while...

There's always room for one more.

Jake Spiller
I'm just a user. I don't have time to collect.

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