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50707 Sean Richards <seanr@w...> 1998‑09‑30 De-Lurk Bio: Sean Richards
Patrick Olguin wrote:

> OBTW, there appear to be over 200 people who have never
> submitted a bio. Don't worry, I know who you are... and I'll get ya
> sooner or later.

Ok!  Ok!  Earlier admonishments ("shameless lurkers," etc. .  .) weren't
enough, but now that THREATS are being thrown about. . .
I am 35 years old, husband of 14 years, the father of two girls 5 and 10,
and a son of 13.  I have worked for the past 11 years for The L & JG
Stickley Furniture Company.  Until two years ago, I lived all my life in
upstate/central New York north of Syracuse (the Snow Belt,) and
worked at Stickley's main factory in Manlius.  They sent me downstate,
and now work in northern NJ, living in Warwick, NY.
I contracted the oldtools affliction quite unexpectedly.  I needed a plane
for something, and wound up finding the MofA quite by accident.  All of
you are familiar with the subsequent decline into rust hunting.
Nice furniture, that Stickley stuff.  As employees, we get a substantial
discount but still can't afford it.  Working with it has made me spoiled,
and unwilling to consider other brands.  I would love to tell you I'm an
expert from the Cabinet Shop, able to field tough joinery questions, but
no.  I manage the warehouse and delivery drivers.  Transportation,
inventory control, customer service, last-minute miracles, that sort of
stuff.  I also do all of Stickley's clock work in the tri-state area.  If
I can
provide any assistance in these areas, I would be delighted.  Until then,
I will continue learning from you folks, and enjoying the list.  Sean
p.s.  Well, Mr. Olguin, did I set some sort of lurk record?


50710 Walter Barry <wdwrkr@i...> 1998‑09‑30 RE: De-Lurk Bio: Sean Richards
Sean wrote:
> ...I have worked for the past 11 years for The L & JG
> Stickley Furniture Company....

Welcome onboard Sean.  I got interested after reading
your bio, which mentioned the Stickley factory and where
it was, since I live and work in Northern NJ.   I couldn't help
but hit the search engine and immediately found......

        http://www.stickley.com/stickley/

Check out this site everyone, a Stickley Arts & Crafts
history, and many photos in their catalog of beautiful
stuff, and an interesting list of various construction details.

Here's a picture of a drawer being fitted with a plane 
        http://www.stickley.com/stickley/tourhandfitting.html
OK, so I was just kidding.

And how would you like to have this lumber pile to pick from...
        http://www.stickley.com/stickley/tourlumber.html

Walter,
still waiting to hear if anyone ever heard of wooden
plane maker M.H.Sampson who's not in AWP.



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