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30019 Daigle, Richard <RDaigle@c...> 1997‑11‑05 Bio...Dick Daigle
Greetings Galoots!

Name's Dick Daigle and I live in the small central Massachusetts town of

Holden, just north of Worcester. I'm just about to hit that magic age of
40 
and am lucky to be married to my wife Karin, a gal who can swing a
hammer
and spread plaster better'n any man I know. Cranking out software for
the 
CLARiiON group at Data General pays the bills, and I wile away all my
lunch 
hours perusing this newsgroup. 

I've been building colonial reproductions for about 10 years or so,
step-back
cupboards, tavern and trestle tables, and the like for home use and for
gifts.
Even sold some! Also have tried my hand at post 'n beam work. I've
helped build 
3 houses for friends, a small barn for myself, and a 36x28 barn for my
father-in
-law. It was chopping and cutting all those mortise and tenons that
really got 
me turned on to finding and using handtools. Luckily, here in central
Mass. it's
tool nirvana. I've yet to have a weekend go by where I don't pick up a
fine
old tool at either a tag sale or some antique shop for cheap money. I
confess
to having p*w*r shop tools, but they all pre-date 1955, so don't count
them 
against me!!

My current woodworking projects are to finish restoring our 1745
Cape-style
house and adding on the 1760 gambrel that I dismantled during a sun and
fun
filled 16 (yes, sixteen) days this past July. That's a story in itself!!
Spent 
the last couple of nights hewing two new oak gunstock posts needed to
complete 
the gambrel frame so we can raise it before winter settles in. 

Posted my first note here a few days ago after *years* of lurking. First
on Digital Equipment's Woodworking_and_Tools notesfile (remember that,
Patrick?),
on to rec.woodworking, and finally this group. I'm home! 

Wish lists: Learn how to build cedar strip canoes.
                Take a Windsor chair class with Mike Dunbar.
                Learn the fine art of blacksmithing.  

That's me in a nutshell. Thanks for all the info I've gleaned so far and
I hope
that I'll be able to share some in return. 

Best regards,  ~Dick D.



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