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206544 "Joe Ezell" <ezcue@b...> 2010‑07‑25 introduction
Just dropping out of the shadows. I have been lurking here for a couple
months, reading with great interest all the info the list provides. I
started in woodworking about 15 years ago as an apprentice custom cue
maker. Long story, here are the cliff notes. I was in college and
hustled pool in the summers to pay for the following years classes. I
ordered a custom cue from a local cue maker. When I stopped in to make
payments on my road trip rounds I would do some odd jobs...sweep the
floor take out the trash etc. One thing led to another and I ended up
working with him in the evenings after class. Two years later and my
grades in the tank, my parents said build cues or go to school..I chose
school and got my degree. After I got out of college a few of my old
running buddies kept pestering me to build a cue. Fast forward to today
$100K worth of equipment and a shop full of wood later. I am a part time
cue builder and full time sales manager. Here is a link to a few pics.

http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-cues.html


http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-shop.html




 Last year I got the hankering to work in the flat. Joined Woodnet,
 sniffed around there a month or so and found the hand tool forum.OOPS!!
 I now build a few small side tables, am trying to hand cut dove tails
 that don't look like a beavers chewed them and using hand planes. It
 truly is a SLIPPERY slope. I buy a few tools from Patrick and Josh here
 on the list. I am a user not a collector ( yeah right). Along the lines
 of collector, I frequent a few local ANTEECK malls and the occasional
 weekend flea market. Here is what happened today.


Evening fellas, just got back from a weekend of rust hunting. I was on
my last leg up from Pensacola and stopped by the rattiest looking flea
market just across the Alabama line. This one dude had isles of stuff.
One of those places the girlfriend and I refer to as "head hurt booths".
As I dug through the $50 coffin smoothers and $100 "big wooden plans"
Jacks. This little baby peaked out of the pile.Infill <http://www.f150online.com
/forums/members/excue-albums-infil-
plane.html> I talked him into kicking in 5 yellow handled buck chisels
he wanted $3 each for. Total out the door for the Plane and 5
chisels.....$40.00. What is this??? I know it is an infill. Is it a
decent one and who can restore it...I aint touching it!! I am afraid I
will screw it up. I will tackle an old Stanley or Sargent no
sweat....but this one, I think is better left to someone with more
knowledge.


Pretty long post for "notes". Anyhoo, thanks for looking and I will try
to not embarrass myself here on the porch.



Thanks,

Joe Ezell

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