Louis, When it rains it pours...another boater. Welcome, brother. And
congrats on the nice toolkit. As I suppose you have seen (whilst
lurking) there are a few boating types here. Although I am building
(well, re-building) a 32 foot sailboat, I am also presently trying to
decide on a nice design for a small boat that I can build in my shop
while it's too cold to work on the sailboat in the unheated shed. I want
to do a Gloucester type dory with a small sail rig and two rowing
stations. I think dories are beautiful. What kind of small boats do you
like, strike that, are you obsessed with (because it can only be an
obsession)? Anyway, welcome, from a relative newcomer here who also
loves to mess about in boats.... Mark Lane New York

Louis Michaud wrote:

> Hello from Rimouski,
>
>          I'm a small boat maniac, building and messing about in them.
>          I started with handtools because they are a lot more
>          convenient to adjust joints in a boat (everything is compound
>          curved, crooked and never fits according to measurements...)
>          than p*w*r tools, and they're cheaper. Got into furniture
>          making when friends made rude remarks about my make-shift
>          student furniture and something to the effect that I had
>          enough boats (saying you have enough boats is like saying you
>          have enough handplanes...) So, looked around for different
>          styles of furniture, discovered Shaker and Arts and Crafts
>          furniture. Made a few pieces with p*w*r tools and decided to
>          continue with a mix of p*w*r and hand tools. I work mostly
>          with yellow birch, anyline dies, finish with a scraper (hate
>          sandpaper!) and use a varnish/oil mixture. I looked around
>          locally for oldtools, nothing, nada, zlicht! probably worst
>          than Texas... Canadian-US exchange rates are murder, in
>          despair I started cutting back on beer (Sleeman's Dark
>          Original) and dog biscuits (I have a dog...) to be able to
>          buy from a US dealer (any canadian oldtool dealers out
>          there?). Out of the blue a toolchest finds its way in the
>          back of my truck.
>
> Contents: Stanley/Bailey #3, #5, #7 (types 15-18)
> #220 (recent), #80 scraper, #63 and #151 spokeshaves, 78 (missing
> #fence and depth adj.)
> Wooden plane: SCIOTO(?) WORKS 15, 16 in. long, razee type rear end
> with tote, metal plate screwed to the bottom.
>
> Disston D7 (nib) 10 pt cross., Disston 10 pt cross.(looks like a short
> Compact model), Disston 6 pt rip
>
> Stanley #923 10 in. brace (rosewood handles ?) Hand drill, heavy
> machined castings, hollow wooden handle, no markings.
>
> This would be the gloat part, since I paid less than $100 (CANADIAN
> !!!) for a basic Galoot starter kit.
>
> I'm still searching for a virgin white goat to sacrifice in thanks to
> the great TOOL GOD...
>
>         Back to lurking, still learning a lot, hope to have something
>         to add once in a while.
>
> Louis Michaud Rimouski, Quebec Canada Louis Michaud Bibliothecaire,
> Secteur science et technologie Service de la bibliotheque Universite
> du Quebec a Rimouski 300, allee des Ursulines Rimouski, Quebec G5L 3A1
>
> tel:(418)723-1986, poste 1213 fax:(418)724-1621 louis_michaud@u...
>
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