** Reply to note from jim@o... Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:20:13 -0500 
>    
> 	Lastly, another goal I have is to sell my Leigh jig, router, jointer and 
> some of my other noisy, dust-creating, appendage mangling devices as soon 
> as I can replace them with the appropiate planes and hand tools.  I will 
> adjust my projects to match my skill and tools - I would rather make 1 nice 
> item by hand then 10 by cramming boards through machines. 
>    
 
As a convert to the joys of hand jointing let me encourage you to run, not 
walk to a source of a good jointer plane(s) and get rid of that power pig. 
There are few things more therapeutic than hand jointing.  It isn't even 
hard to learn. 
 
You can hand joint stuff that would take a couple of hours to figure out 
how to do on the power thing.  Oh yeah, did I say it was therapeutic. 
 
just say (tm) my jointer got about 1/4" of digit last year.  I wasn't 
sorry to mothball it. 

ernie 
The Arizona tool sink, IT #22