Well, since I inadverantly ended lurkerdom by sending a message to the
list which I intended to send to the original poster (hum, haven't I
seen that line before...:-) herewith a brief bio.

I'm an electronic/computer engineer for Motorola, in south Florida
(south Florida is _the_ old tool hell, being absolutely the last part of
the country to be settled - if you doubt it, consider the population of
this county was in the single digits at the turn of the century).

I'm self taught at woodworking, which means I know next to nothing about
it and am good at even less.

I'm drawn to old tools from two perspectives, one being there use as
tools (I'm building a boat, a project which requires handtools - you
have to move the tools to the project, not the project to the
tools); and the other being a long standing interest in the history
of almost anything.

Now back to lurker status....

John

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John McCoy mccoy@p... excp01@e... Motorola Inc Radio Products Group 8000
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