Ray Wrote:

>My name is Ray Sheley, I'm a retired Mechanical Engineer, and live 
>in the Rochester NY area.
>My woodworking experience is in the form of remodeling, repair of 
>furniture, refinishing, furniture kit building, small projects, but 
>no fine furniture building, very limited (Almost non-existent) lathe work, etc.
>
>I'm looking forward to reengaging and becoming more of a participant again.
>Thank you.

Welcome back!  The  great recession was brutal to a good number of 
people. Sorry to hear you were among them.

I was an active list-member for a number of years way back when (Is 
it more than 20 years already?), got to be good friends even off-list 
with a number of the early listmembers.  I used to post pretty 
regularly as new people came in asking questions, and liked sharing 
stories about the oldtools I managed to find and the occasional 
project, such as the cabin I built in the mountains using lots of 
handtools along with some power tools. I have continued to subscribe 
but got too busy to really track the group around when you dropped 
out. Now I am lurking and posting a bit again via the digests which 
are a bit more manageable for me these days, though not because I 
have less to do.  I do enjoy seeing a number of the names I remember 
from past days posting and hearing what people are up to.  So I 
appreciate a bit of reintroduction since I often remember names but 
not details.

- Mark