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72245 "Mike Tillson" <miket@c...> 1999‑12‑12 Mike Tillsons bio repost
Sure enough, I can't find my bio on the official list either, so here's
another:

I'm camped out here in upstate NY on an old farm where I spend most of my
wife's money on tools and old farm equipment.  By day, I'm an MIS manager,
and the rest of the time we're still running the farm, including an active
greenhouse and bedding plant business.  This also means that there's lots of
stuff to maintain and otherwise "play" with.  (Tractors still count as
tail-less apprentices, don't they?)

I have a definite weakness for cabinet makers chests, and complex moulders,
and little resistance to most anything else, now that I think of it.  I am
usually in pretty active persuit of Addis carving tools because I do carve a
little, and would prefer to carve more.  Lately I've been somewhat
fastinated by portable saw filing vises, which is an offshoot of trying to
learn how to sharpen them, because there's nobody good close by.  When there
is more time, I also dabble with some metal work, with both torch and forge,
to repair or make the pieces that I can't get.  This is definitely an area
where I know just enough to keep myself in plenty of trouble.

Does this mean I get another Galoot hat Paddy?
Mike



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