Hello Porch,
     I thought I'd written a bio a while back, but I've been unable to find
it, I've done a lot since then and intend to participate in Galootaclaus. So
here I am again.

    I graduated in May 2010 from Philadelphia University with a BS in
Product Design, I've always been building things and dreamed of opening a
cabinet shop when I was taking woodshop in highschool. I worked with product
design and took furniture design courses, during that time at school I built
two chairs and many tools. I had build several pine bookcases and a rather
large cubby bookcase with my dad, but it wasn't until my senior year that,
coupled with my product design background led me into a love affair
(ongoing) with hand tool woodworking and the variety of tools found in the
wood trades.

    Currently I teach modelmaking and an intro shop course at my alma mater,
and I build furniture on the side for myself and a few commissions. I'm
particularly excited about a toolmaking seminar I'm designing to show some
advanced techniques and help the really "shop rat" minded students of mine
make some sexy tools. So far I'm working on an adjustable try square,
torpedo level, maybe a plumb bob, center punch/awl. We don't do a lot of
work in wood, mostly foams and sheet plastic, some wood turning. So there
are a log of layout tools on my idea list.

   Aside from building furniture, I like restoring planes and making
different tools, some of those projects include a half set of cherry H&Rs,
handscrews, miniature moulding and rabbet planes from beech, infill shoulder
plane the list goes on, you all know that already. I've been doing a lot of
my work on a modified, wall mounded general workshop builtin that was from
the previous owner of my parents house. I'm preparing to build an 18th C.
bench as soon as winter break hits and I get some more free time. I work
almost exclusively with hand tools when I make furniture, though I use the
tablesaw to break down stock, and the lathe. I use power tools for the stuff
at the school shop, my favorite there might be the router in table. My
favorite hand tool is a tough call I couldn't pick one. For class of tools
though, I like the joinery planes. Someday I'll put a #444 to good use
making carcasses and dividers etc.
-- 
Trevor Walsh
Furnituremaker and Woodworker
TWDesign <http://www.twdesignshop.blogspot.com>
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