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30019 | Daigle, Richard <RDaigle@c...> | 1997‑11‑05 | Bio...Dick Daigle |
Greetings Galoots! Name's Dick Daigle and I live in the small central Massachusetts town of Holden, just north of Worcester. I'm just about to hit that magic age of 40 and am lucky to be married to my wife Karin, a gal who can swing a hammer and spread plaster better'n any man I know. Cranking out software for the CLARiiON group at Data General pays the bills, and I wile away all my lunch hours perusing this newsgroup. I've been building colonial reproductions for about 10 years or so, step-back cupboards, tavern and trestle tables, and the like for home use and for gifts. Even sold some! Also have tried my hand at post 'n beam work. I've helped build 3 houses for friends, a small barn for myself, and a 36x28 barn for my father-in -law. It was chopping and cutting all those mortise and tenons that really got me turned on to finding and using handtools. Luckily, here in central Mass. it's tool nirvana. I've yet to have a weekend go by where I don't pick up a fine old tool at either a tag sale or some antique shop for cheap money. I confess to having p*w*r shop tools, but they all pre-date 1955, so don't count them against me!! My current woodworking projects are to finish restoring our 1745 Cape-style house and adding on the 1760 gambrel that I dismantled during a sun and fun filled 16 (yes, sixteen) days this past July. That's a story in itself!! Spent the last couple of nights hewing two new oak gunstock posts needed to complete the gambrel frame so we can raise it before winter settles in. Posted my first note here a few days ago after *years* of lurking. First on Digital Equipment's Woodworking_and_Tools notesfile (remember that, Patrick?), on to rec.woodworking, and finally this group. I'm home! Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes. Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar. Learn the fine art of blacksmithing. That's me in a nutshell. Thanks for all the info I've gleaned so far and I hope that I'll be able to share some in return. Best regards, ~Dick D. |
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30020 | Esther Heller <eoh@k...> | 1997‑11‑05 | Re: Bio...Dick Daigle |
> Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes. > Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar. > Learn the fine art of blacksmithing. > > That's me in a nutshell. Thanks for all the info I've gleaned so far and > I hope > that I'll be able to share some in return. > > Best regards, ~Dick D. > Welcome to the support group from Hell! Rob Stevens in Canada can fill you in on a canoe place in the Adirondacks, I've had 2 of Mike's classes and will gladly not only answer questions but point you to the tool list on John Gunterman's home page, and there are a couple resident blacksmiths and several of us dabbling, including myself... Pull up a chair and have some hot cider! Esther eoh@k... |
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30081 | Rob Stevens <rstevens@f...> | 1997‑11‑06 | Re: Bio...Dick Daigle |
Dick Daigle wrote; snip happens > Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes. > Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar. > Learn the fine art of blacksmithing. And Esther chimed in more shameless promotion of myself and others. And since her last post recognized that I don't post often, but that, "when I do,.." Ted Mohrs, a "master" of canoe-building, can be found via the Canadian Canoe Museum site where Ted has his Bear Mountain Canoe shop set up indefinitely; see http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~bearmountain/ You'll also find the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association site enlightening. It's at; http://www.wcha.org/toc.html If you're at all interested in paddle-carving -see the various related postings in their "Tidbits" section -including one by me. I've also slipped down the blacksmithing slope, but will leave it to you to find the URLs of relevant sites such as the Junkyard Dog discussion group, Elektric Anvil, ArtMetal Project, etc. The slickness of this particular slope see me glissading towards casting -of manganese-bronze plane bodies. Hey, maybe I'll even try some spokeshaves. Welcome to the porch Dick. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfy. Rob |
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30115 | Dave & Connie Matthews <dmatt@f...> | 1997‑11‑26 | Re: Bio...Dick Daigle |
While blowing through a digest at hyperspeed I noticed: Dick Daigle wrote; snip happens > Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes. > Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar. > Learn the fine art of blacksmithing. Gotta stop laying on the page down key on FMM - no money and no time to play.... bummer. Well, if you can do a stippper canoe without backsliding to the dark side you are a far better galoot than I. But then mine needs 2 more coats of resin in and out and the trim work with that 20' (yes that is right) piece of ash that is sitting next to it. I have a stripper - neener neener! I am planning on building a Windsor or two this winter with Esther using the tools that I made in blacksmithing class. I picked up 200 pounds of coal this weekend (EH drop me a note if you want to try some). The coal goes real well with the anvil mounted on the I beam that is infilled with oak. This is a very slippery slope that you are heading down. Are you sure that you are ready for the road rash? Dave If it doesn't rain this weekend I am making staples for the anvil. |
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