trecane
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I am a SW engineer and part time carpenter. Part time in that I renovated my house. Originally I wanted to live in a house so I could enjoy woodworking and small boat building as a hobby. I built a Greenland style skin on frame kayak, some furniture, a flintlock rifle. I also took a Windsor chair building class from Mike Dunbar. The rifle was the most fascinating and strangely the most disappointing thing I have built. I built it from a plan and bought the barrel, lock and hardware from The Log Cabin Shop. It was a very plain Tennessee mountain rifle with minimal decoration. Herschel House and Wallace Gusler videos were inspirational! But it was disappointing in that I found I was not a shooter. I loved building the rifle and I would love to do it again but I just don't love shooting. I loved blending the iron, brass and walnut together into something that looked like it grew together as a unit. I hope to find something else that will be as interesting.
However, eventually the house became my only woodworking project! That and work and family pretty much ended my hobbies.
I am beginning to have time for them now and so I started digging up my hand tools that I hadn't used in way too many years. Well all that time spent in my basement left them a rusty mess. So I became a tool restorer.
Then I went to the Brimfield antique fair to pick up a Stanley #4 (because everyone should have a #4). I came back with a #3 and #4 plus an antique fan. You can see where this is headed. I am no longer to be trusted with cash or credit cards. Last weekend I stumbled across a Charles Parker 954 vise in very good condition and just had to have it. I usually hate the phrase "They don't make them like that anymore." But in this case it's true. Even in rusty condition it's action is smoother and tighter than the box store POS I'm using now.
Well, if you have read this far I admire your patience. I hope to learn a lot here.
However, eventually the house became my only woodworking project! That and work and family pretty much ended my hobbies.
I am beginning to have time for them now and so I started digging up my hand tools that I hadn't used in way too many years. Well all that time spent in my basement left them a rusty mess. So I became a tool restorer.
Then I went to the Brimfield antique fair to pick up a Stanley #4 (because everyone should have a #4). I came back with a #3 and #4 plus an antique fan. You can see where this is headed. I am no longer to be trusted with cash or credit cards. Last weekend I stumbled across a Charles Parker 954 vise in very good condition and just had to have it. I usually hate the phrase "They don't make them like that anymore." But in this case it's true. Even in rusty condition it's action is smoother and tighter than the box store POS I'm using now.
Well, if you have read this far I admire your patience. I hope to learn a lot here.
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