Hey, we get to add a Galoot from yet another country. Welcome, Lar!
If=20 you can handle the shipping charges, a number of Galoots have
stuff for=20 sale.

I wonder how many countries are now represented on the list?

I have never wanted to get started on japanese chisels. It looks
moredifficult to sharpen them than the good old american ones, not
tomention the initial cost.

On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:37 AM, Par Leijonhufvud wrote:

> I'm new here, amns since apparaently bios are done I thought I'd
> introduce myself.
>
> I live in Sweden, with a mixed biologist background (some research,>
> some bioinfoirmatics currently unemployed teacher). I don't like
> noisy> tools, so the this way of working comes natural to me. I=B4ve
> done mostly green wood stuff and wittling, but aldso have a bunch of
> things that needs to be made (starting with a toolchest that is not a
> mil surplus ugly box with a cluttered interior), and also need to fix
> the holes in my> toolkit (the egg-beater drill needs a new chuck, I am
> short of chisels and decent saws[1]. And planes; all you can find used
> here is economy grade wooden ones, usually ones that have spent the
> last 40 years in a leaky barn.
Jim Thompson, the old millrat in Riverside, CA.

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