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274607 Ray S. <rsheley@r...> 2021‑09‑23 Reintroduction and hello
I’d like to re-introduce myself to the list.

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 have a strong bent to sharpening, tool restoration, and tinkering.

I was an active forum participant in the past, but the damage done to my career
in 2008-2009, along with other set-backs reduced my list activity to the
occasional lurking, and my hobby interests to near zero.

It's been a long time and it's time to gain back some of my interests.

I see familiar names, note some missing, and say hello again to all.
To get my feet wet I’m staring out by reviving my interest in making my several
Original cast wishbone Workmates fully functional again, and in catching up with
my interest in Lie-Nielsen planes/tools.

I was an early L-N user and have a number of early and apparently now defunct
models of these tools and would welcome input, and perhaps links to sites for
these tools (Workmate and L-N.)

I'm looking forward to reengaging and becoming more of a participant again.
Thank you.
274610 gtgrouch@r... 2021‑09‑23 Re: Reintroduction and hello
Ray - glad to hear from you! It's been years, but I do think of you
every time I drive south-east.

Regards, Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA

	-----------------------------------------From: "Ray S." 
To: oldtools@g...
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday September 23 2021 5:57:25PM
Subject: [oldtools] Reintroduction and hello

 I’d like to re-introduce myself to the list.

 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 have a strong bent to sharpening, tool restoration, and tinkering.

 I was an active forum participant in the past, but the damage done to
my career in 2008-2009, along with other set-backs reduced my list
activity to the occasional lurking, and my hobby interests to near
zero.

 It's been a long time and it's time to gain back some of my
interests.

 I see familiar names, note some missing, and say hello again to all.
 To get my feet wet I’m staring out by reviving my interest in
making my several Original cast wishbone Workmates fully functional
again, and in catching up with my interest in Lie-Nielsen
planes/tools.

 I was an early L-N user and have a number of early and apparently now
defunct models of these tools and would welcome input, and perhaps
links to sites for these tools (Workmate and L-N.)

 I'm looking forward to reengaging and becoming more of a participant
again.
 Thank you.

 



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274615 Mark van Roojen <mvr1@e...> 2021‑09‑24 Re: Reintroduction and hello
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
274616 Chris Wolf <hframe79001@g...> 2021‑09‑24 Re: Reintroduction and hello
I'm proud to say there has been a new development in regard to the Workmate
while you were away. A couple of years ago I began seriously researching and
documenting the early Black & Decker Workmates and the result is a
comprehensive web site about them. You'll find it at:
https://h-frame.weebly.com/

The site consists of almost 50 web pages plus over 80 downloadable historic
documents pertaining to the Workmate from 1974-1982. I just recently added
some pages about the early UK models which are quite different from our
North American ones.

I have a few pages about replacement parts and repair that might be useful
to you, but that section is fairly limited at this point.

I have a half-dozen Lie-Nielsen planes dating back to the 90's, and it sure
seems as though it's time for someone to do a similar documentation job on
them.

-----Original Message-----
From: oldtools@g... [mailto:oldtools@g...] On Behalf Of Ray S.
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 5:57 PM
To: oldtools@g...
Subject: [oldtools] Reintroduction and hello

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To get my feet wet I'm staring out by reviving my interest in making my
several Original cast wishbone Workmates fully functional again, and in
catching up with my interest in Lie-Nielsen planes/tools.

I was an early L-N user and have a number of early and apparently now
defunct models of these tools and would welcome input, and perhaps links to
sites for these tools (Workmate and L-N.)

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