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165861 "Peter Potter" <potterps@h...> 2006‑12‑20 bio
Greetings Galoot,
  As this is my first post here is the mandatory bio.  I was born in Indiana 
and moved to Texas at
age 12. I served in the U.S. Navy from 1976 to 1980, the U.S. Army from 1985 
to 1993, and am
currently serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve. I live in San Antonio, Texas 
with LOML and two GITs. My
day job is at one of the local hospitals as a Surgical First Assistant, I 
specialize in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.
  My interest in woodworking started as a kid. My father had a ShopSmith as 
well as a number of
Galoot type tools. My brother and I were always building things like go 
carts and forts, as well as
turning things on the lathe. My intrest was renewed when I left the Army and 
bought a house in
San Antonio, Texas. Lots of things needed repairs so I learned plumbing, Dry 
wall, Tiling etc. The bug really bit when we visited my brother in Ohio and 
I built a couple of benches in his well equipped
Cabinet Shop (His hobby Spot). Many electons were consumed. On returning 
home I started
studying and trying my hand at various projects, all very normite. I was 
mobilized in 2005 and took a
short vacation in Southwest Asia. When I got home I had amassed enough cash 
to buy my own
ShopSmith from a widow who also tried to sell me her husband's forge and 
Blacksmith tools. I was
very tempted but had nowhere to use it, and SWMBO pointed out that the Bank 
Account would
not stand the strain. I got frustrated with all the Woodworking magazine 
atricle about tools I did not have and methods of work involving them to 
build the projects they featured. I started to think I good do most of these 
things with hand tools for a fraction of the cost and not nearly as much
set-up time. For instance, I could plane board with a hand plane instead of 
a 400-500 dollar
thickness planer. I started to watch the unnamed electioic auction site fore 
a good plane. That was
the start of the slippery slope. In the last three months my old tool 
aquizitions include a #4 type 17,
a #5 tyoe 19, a #7 type 17, a Dunlap #4 clone, an unnamed Scube plane, a 
Disston #7 with a damaged handle, an A-4 panel saw by Pennsylvania Saw Corp, 
A 125+ year old Broad Ax, and other
small items. Now I mostly use my (cheap) contractors saw as a work table and 
my Mitre saw stand as a planing bench. I have been lurking for a couple of 
weeks and decided to crawl out from under
the porch and admit my addiction. Hi, my name is Pete and I'm a Galoot 
(wannabe).

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