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.

Welcome Rick.  It sounds like you are on your way. You will find this list has
very little drama and a lot of support.  Don't worry about the English - we need
someone to help with Ruobo and Diderot anyway!

A link to pictures is always appreciated.

Ed Minch

Glad to have you Rick, you will find a wealth of knowledgable and giving
people here.​

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Pier-Rick Lamontagne 
wrote:

Welcome, Rick! Glad to have you join our list.

You mentioned discovering Paul Sellers. I hope you have also found Roy
Underhill,  affectionately referred to on this list as "St. Roy":
 

http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/watch-on-line/watch-season-episodes/

--
Chuck Taylor
north of Seattle USA

Ah Tabernac! we don't care about English or non ici
Welcome!  Or:
bienvenue à l'ancien groupe d'outils de menuiserie, haha
Don't worry about buying expensive tools for galootaclaus either (il vaut
mieux faire quelque choses)

  Even after 40 years of yard sales and flea markets, it's still fun to
find old tools that can be restored.  They are often better than new tools
that are commonly available at the hardware stores.

Cheers from Miami,
Claudio de Lorenzi (at yet another conference)- I'm Canadian from Waterloo
Ontario (not the Waterloo in Quebec)


On Nov 2, 2017 1:40 PM, "Chuck Taylor via OldTools" <
oldtools@s...> wrote:

Welcome, Rick! Glad to have you join our list.

On 3/11/17, 12:03 am, "Pier-Rick Lamontagne"  wrote:


> 
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Rick 

Welcome aboard. There are quite a few British, and Australians on the list,
some New Zealanders also, best you only take advice from us to help you out
with English.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

P.S. Ducking and running

> > Welcome aboard. There are quite a few British, and Australians on the
list,
> > some New Zealanders also, best you only take advice from us to help you
out
> > with English.
> P.S. Ducking and running

Just so you know, Rick, that "ducking and running" is an Ausie euphemism
for drinking beer, much like "tool collector" is someone who has lots of
used bottle openers.  Try to keep that in mind as you learn the language.

Several nations, divided by a common language.

Cheers,
Claudio de Lorenzi

you can run, but you can't hide.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mick Dowling" 
To:"Mick Dowling" , "Pier-Rick
Lamontagne" , "oldtools@s..."

Cc:
Sent:Fri, 03 Nov 2017 08:12:27 +1100
Subject:Re: [OldTools] New galoot

 P.S. Ducking and running

 On 3/11/17, 8:07 am, "Mick Dowling" 
wrote:

 > 
 > On 3/11/17, 12:03 am, "Pier-Rick Lamontagne" 
wrote:
 > 
 > 
 >> 
 >> 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.
 >>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Hi Rick 
 > 
 > Welcome aboard. There are quite a few British, and Australians on
the list,
 > some New Zealanders also, best you only take advice from us to help
you out
 > with English.
 > 
 > Mick Dowling
 > Melbourne
 > Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

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