Gentle Galoots,

I had originally submitted by bio 12/21/95 or earlier and I noticed that mine is
n't in the OLDTOOLS bios.   So here goes:

I am 33, live in Columbia, MO.   Have a wife and a 4 year old son.   My day job 
is as a Grants Administrator at the University of Missouri. My interest in woodw
orking started as an innocent salvage job of an old bowling alley (Hard rock Map
le).   There seemed to be a natural progression of thought until I ended up maki
ng a 8'x 3' woodworking bench.   I first built a childs workbench as a model for
 my big one.   They both use keyed, through mortice and tenons on the stretchers
, holdfasts, a tooltray in the back, drawers underneath, etc...   Have built sev
eral things and am currently working on the Veritas toolchest in Walnut.   Last 
summer I built a small scale (9'x12'x14'high) barn, complete with loft.   I am p
roud to say that it was built entirely with handtools. The loft is great to stor
e lumber in.   The haydoors make it easy to move wood in and out.   Currently I 
am drying lumber purchased from the Amish.   But thats another story.

I have the basic arsenal of old hand tools.   I enjoy learning the old ways and 
like to buy tools with a history behind them.   As John Gunterman used to say "I
'm an analog man trapped in a digital world".

At 09:22 AM 3/5/97 -0600, Sam Peterson wrote:

>I had originally submitted by bio 12/21/95 or earlier and I noticed that
mine isn't in the OLDTOOLS
>bios. 

Can someone point me in the direction of the Bio Archives. Mine was
submitted almost that long ago ... maybe more of us should submit a v.2.0

David

David writes:

> Can someone point me in the direction of the Bio Archives. Mine was
> submitted almost that long ago ... maybe more of us should submit a v.2.0

   The bios can be viewed by following the Galoot link on the Front
Porch
 or directly at:
http://www.mcs.net/~rallen/oldtools/html/galoots.html 
   We have the bios that were posted since about January of last year.  
If your bio was posted before that (or if I was asleep at the wheel
when you posted it) it won't be in the archive.  
   If your bio is missing either e-mail it to me or repost it.  Bios can 
also be removed for galoots who enter the witness reloaction program. 

Russ Allen
porch biographer