Hello fellow Galoots!
 I'm a new kid on the block, and thought I'd send some blurbadge on who I
am.( Just in case anybody's interested!)
 I'm Gary Adajian, and I live in Bantam, CT., which is like a suburb,so
called, of the town of Litchfield in the beautiful Northwestern hills of
CT.
  I've been collecting tools for about 2 yrs. now, much to my wife's
bewilderment, and I really find it quite fascinating.I've been to the
Industrial museum in New Britain,(New Britain being the town I was born and
raised in), And was a little disappointed at the amount of Stanley
collectibles they had there. (MY #45 is MUCH nicer!) You'd think they'd
give these people a little more support, but I guess being a monster
business doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to remember where you
came from!
  My trade is that of a toolmaker for the Torrington Co. in Watertown CT. A
trade which I've plied for about 20 yrs. now. I think that a couple of the
things that lead me towards old tools is:1) My grandfather was a carpenter
by trade in Mansfield, CT., and 2) My love for designing and building my
own furniture.I've found wood to be a MUCH more forgiving medium to work in
than metal!
  Well, that's it, that's me, pleased to meetcha'!

Gary A.

>I am responsible for the health and welfare of the Big Red
>football and lacrosse teams.

Ohh Ohhh ohhh...
Any chance you know how to make a _real_ lacrosse stick? (bo-peep style)
I mean like riving, shaping and steaming then weaving the stinging like it
was done way-back-when?

Ron Banks wrote:

(snip of fascinating bio)

> BTW,  any of y'all out there know the best way to get people
> interested in takin' a turn on a pitsaw?

I recommend you read Tom Sawyer, and study his method of drafting
suck^H^H^H^H er, volunteers, to whitewash his fence.

Welcome to the porch.

Ed

At 02:43 AM 10/1/98 -0500, Ron Banks wrote:
>
>BTW,  any of y'all out there know the best way to get people interested in
>takin' a turn on a pitsaw?
>
Beer, the answer is beer

Tony

________________________________________________________
                 Two weeks at the flea market
                      Without a single gimlet
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Tony,

If you are serving beer while pitsawing, I sure would not want to be the
pitman!

Tut, Tut, Looks like rain,
Frank C

At 09:22 AM 10/1/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Tony,
>
>If you are serving beer while pitsawing, I sure would not want to be the
>pitman!
>
>Tut, Tut, Looks like rain,
>Frank C

So that's what those wide-brimmed hats are really for.  Sounds like I'll
also need to stock up on slickers and boots for the pitman--maybe even put
in a french drain under his feet.

Ron
rbanks@v...

In response to the question about how to get someone to work a pit saw,
Tony suggested "beer".  Well, for those of us here in Washington, DC, used
to spending YOUR money on Champagne and big submarines, that wouldn't work.
 Now, if you put a nice female Intern on the top half.......

        Karl

Karl suggested:

 Now, if you put a nice female Intern on the top half.......

no, no, no, the intern goes down

ed

Jim wrote;

"
University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  I have an MSc in
Biology that was based on work on crayfish so that actually makes me an
Astacologist"

In light of this Jim, what's your position toward those who find crayfish
to be tasty little devils?

Ed Balko
Middletown, NJ
Been to Baton Rouge more'n once.

I'm starting to feel sorry for Jim's wife and friends,

> I have talked incessantly to my friends and SWMBO about planes, high
> carbon iron, iron thickness, tight mouths and am starting to refer
> to them by number like the #71 1/2

when he displays his full facility with the drive-by gloat, saying:

> My only disappointment so far is
> that SWMBO has turned out to be better at this, bringing home
> more tools
> at better prices than me (gloat).

So, you sneak, I guess anyone with a helper like this, (Leach's dog
comes to mind - no linkage with Jim's SWMBO intended), should be
admitted to the Porch.  We need to cultivate this art of choosing
able and willing tool hunting companions.  What's the trick Jim?

- Bill

Bill said

snip
"We need to cultivate this art of choosing
able and willing tool hunting companions.  What's the trick Jim?"
unsnip

I asked myself the same question when SWMBO returned from an innocent trip
to the fleamarket with the hands-down, butt-ugliest pair of miserable,
rusted, cheek-broken, parts-missing, planes I have ever laid eyes on.  She
was so proud of herself that I didn't have the heart to tell her just how
useless they are.  Thank goodness they only cost $3 each, but I hope she
never feels so generous again.

Steve Kroser
Fort Myers, FL

>
> Bill said
>
> snip
> "We need to cultivate this art of choosing
> able and willing tool hunting companions.  What's the trick Jim?"
> unsnip
>
> I asked myself the same question when SWMBO returned from an innocent trip
> to the fleamarket with the hands-down, butt-ugliest pair of miserable,
> rusted, cheek-broken, parts-missing, planes I have ever laid eyes on.  She
> was so proud of herself that I didn't have the heart to tell her just how
> useless they are.  Thank goodness they only cost $3 each, but I hope she
> never feels so generous again.
>
> Steve Kroser
> Fort Myers, FL

The real trick is choosing someone who will take some interest in
your interests just because they are _your_ interests, and reciprocating
with her interests.

If you would like a hint from the "other" side ;-)
I had a friend whose husband always brought her a flower when he came
home from work on Friday.  Unfortunately at first it seems he just
grabbed a flower and didn't know how to tell if it was fresh or about
to wilt.  One day they were buying flowers for someone else and she
told him what she was looking at while she picked out the stems.  Seems
she hadn't gotten an instant-wilt flower since....

I suggest planning a trip to any sort of antique mall where you know
there will be tools but the owner isn't right there and inspecting the
tools out loud, espcially for basic stuff like cracks or kinks in saws
or woodies that are warped when you sight down their soles.  The trip
is not to buy something although you might, but to spend some quality
time and gently transfer some information.  If she is into anything
particularly watch out for her doing likewise ;-)  ;-)

Esther eoh@k...

  Crayfish are not commonly eaten around here.  I used to occasionaly
drive 1 hr down to Toronto to go to a hockey game, secretly I was going to
the only seafood place that I have found that had crayfish.  Last time I
went they had taken crayfish off the menu :-(.

Jim

Esther wrote:

SNIP

> The real trick is choosing someone who will take some interest in
> your interests just because they are _your_ interests, and reciprocating
> with her interests.

Esther's right of course.  One of the other ways is to find some common
interest that links your separate ones together.  One that works for us is
that her family, including her 7 brothers, are not "handy".  She would
like our kids to learn that skill.  My family does not, until recently
this included me, have an appreciation for history.  I would like the kids
to have that.  Old tools is one way of combining those interests.  I also
get some tools :-).

Thanks for the welcome everyone.
Jim

interests.
>
> Esther's right of course.

Are you just learning that ?

Esther is right most of the time.

I'll bet a lot of guys on this list would give their spare # 5 to have a
spouse who actually looked for tools for them.  Never mind the condition,
as Esther implied that can be taught.

She is also right in that most streets run both ways

Ron

Whose SWMBO came home with a bedrock !!!!!

6420
>   Biology, Univ. of Waterloo         EMAIL: Jim@S...
>   Waterloo, ON, CANADA
>   N2L 3G1
>
> --
>

In a message dated 10/6/98 11:36:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jim@s... writes:

<< Esther's right of course.  One of the other ways is to find some common
 interest that links your separate ones together.  >>

Let's see. Here's my spouse and I.

He saves, she spends. He likes classical, she rock. He likes history, she
likes new. She loved fashion, he doesn't care. Ad nauseum.

Opposites attract. Love conquers all. Nineteen years of bliss. What can I say?

Oh yeah. She thinks old stuff "smells funny".

Dennis