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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. |
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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. Links: ------ [1] https://groups.io/g/oldtools/unsub |
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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 |
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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 [snipped] 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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