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263749 Pier-Rick Lamontagne <foutchibay@g...> 2017‑11‑02 New galoot
Hi, My name is Rick (Pier-Rick in fact).

I discovered your mailing list not so long ago.  Took time to lurk and it's
now time for me to present myself.

I'm french Canadian from Saguenay (up north 500km from Montreal).
I discovered wood working a couples years ago, in a strange needed way. We
bought a dishwasher without having the place setup for it. So I needed to
build a cabinet for it. NO WAY that I would do a melamine counter top. So I
decided to build one, doing a simple wooden square frame with laminated 2x4
in the center. took the router to plane it and fit it in the frame.

That was the beginning of a love story with wood. I have always been manual
and always looking to save money. I trim my own chicken, buy in lot when I
can and sous-vide all my meat. I was a mechanics but with a bad back so now
i'm in Quality insurrance in a call center.

My biggest problem with the power tools setup is : I don't have a shed, or
garage. I have a basement and my wife dislike the noise from the powertools
(and I too since I have tinnitus).

I had a couples of fuller chisels (which I bought for about 5$ at lowes)
and My grandfather gave me his two bailey planes (block plane and #4)  I
had the need to build other things than my dishwasher counter top (I did my
own bathroom countertop with laminated construction lumber and broke 3-4
straight bit on the router.) I said to myself, man, there's must be a
better way to do this.

So I started looking on videos on youtube. Got on the Paul Sellers
channels and fell in love with his way of working, the tranquility and dust
free environment. Since i'm a manual person trapped in a corporate desk job
I need to find a way to move.. To expulse my energy. I thought it was a
beautiful way to do it.


I have now a couples of japanese chisels, 5 hand saw (disston ripcut 7tpi,
disston crosscut 10 and 12 tip, another crosscut mastercraft professionnal
a disston backsaw and a sheffield dovetail saw. )


I've found some pretty neat stanley 45 in a yard sales (with cutters for
about 40$) 2 #4 stanley planes and a #5. Got a stanley #78 fillister plane
and that's my arsenal for now.


I WANTED to find a nice stanley 78 router plane but they are all overpriced
over ebay (when it cost the same as a new one, or a 50$ close. I rather buy
the new leevalley one. So I've bought one last week (will receive it after
nov 13th.) and a couples of Narex chisels.

I don't have a lot of money to invest in tools as of right now so I find
most of my tools over yard sales and other.

I'd love to participate on the Galoot gift exchange but If I look at the
last year pictures, the given tools worth more that I can afford to buy my
own. So i'll pass this year but maybe next year :)


Sorry about the long presentation and i'm very glad that I found you guys
!!

P.S. Sorry about my english, My native language is french, don't hesitate
to correct me if you see mistakes, I want to write english better :)

Rick.

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