Jim,
This is turning into a small world. who'd a thunk it.
I was born in Lexington VA, grew up in Newport News, wasted
a year at VMI, went into the service, spent a couple of years at
Christopher Newport college, and was in a two person acoustic
guitar group called "Gemini". then went to Richmond and got my
Music ed degree from VCU, and was in another two person
guitar duo called - and this is the truth - "Wood". I washed dishes
at "la crepe et la steak" in Richmond , though only for about a month.
I've been in the Boston area for 19 years, and miss the mild weather
during the cold New England winter (but don't miss the heat in the
summer :-).
Welcome to the porch, fellow Virginian!
Jim Cook
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>From: J. D. Crutchfield
>To: oldtools
>Subject: Bio of Jim Crutchfield
>Date: Sunday, March 16, 1997 11:38PM
>
>Bio of Jim Crutchfield
>
>I live in Norfolk, Virginia, where I've been for almost ten years. I
>was born in Fishersville, in the Shenandoah Valley, and grew up in
>Newport News, across the water from Norfolk. I went to college at the
>University of Rochester, New York, washed dishes for a year in Richmond
>(at the Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe, still the best chili I've ever
>eaten), then went to law school at Washington & Lee University in
>Lexington, Va.
>
>I've practised law since the fall of 1987, though right now I'm only
>doing that part-time. Most of my practice has been defending people and
>companies that get sued, though I've done some criminal defense work and
>a little bit of plaintiff's work.
>
>I'm also a musician and I play in the folk band "Dramtreeo", as well as
>an alternative rock duo called "Things in Action". You might have heard
>of Dramtreeo. The band's been around about sixteen years, though I only
>joined about four and a half years ago. We have four albums out so far,
>of which I'm only on the fourth one, "Storm".
>
>I've always loved working with my hands and lurking in hardware stores,
>but I never did any real woodworking until fairly recently. And I have
>yet to really make anything besides a bench hook and a couple of other
>simple projects. I've been assembling tools, though, and am getting
>ready to build my first workbench.
>
>Reading Underhill's "Woodwright" books turned me into a galoot, I guess;
>though I read Eric Sloan's books when I was in high school, and have
>always had fantasies of living off the land and doing everything by
>hand. That didn't stop me from buying some power tools (and I'll
>confess, it would be hard for me to give up my Makita cordless drill);
>but I've long since gotten pretty tired of Norm's "I'll just put this
>through my thickness planer, then cut the mortices with my hollow chisel
>morticer," etc. I'm just waiting for Norm to get hold of a complete
>furniture-making machine, so he never has to touch the wood with his
>hands at all.
>
>--
>Best wishes,
>
>Jim Crutchfield
>Norfolk, Virginia
>http://vabch.com/mrcynick
>
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