Well I thought that I had put up a bio years ago, but, couldn't find
  it. So here goes a new one. Now if I can remember all the lies I told
  before. I first started woodworking way back in the dark ages. the
  last of the 1940's, in Iowa, when the school teacher decided that the
  boys in the class (3) would take shop. His idea of a shop class was
  give each kid a old block plane, a sanding block, and a carved up desk
  to refinish, needless to say that didn't work out very good. But I
  took shop all thru high school and have been working with wood ever
  since. During the 20 years in the service (USMC) I always had some
  kind of woodworking tools with me, usually a Port-a-shop and hand
  tools. After I got out of the service, I remodeled homes and built 2
  for myself. In VA and MT. I also have worked as a bartender,
  motorcycle mechanic,( mostly British), electronic game and pinball
  mechanic, and a decorative decoy carver just before I retired. I was
  like TIM the toolman, that I had I have the biggest and best of power
  tools, but in the last 20 years I have gotten rid most of the power
  and have gone back to hand tools. I do a lot of antique repair now and
  hand tools RULE. I have almost as much fun in making tools than using
  them. I am some what of a chisels nut, at the last count I have over
  100 of them needing handles and cleaned up, most socket types. And I
  have been making planes. That another steep slope. I have made 4 and
  have 3 more in the works now, I even make the blades for them. I have
  made dulcimers in the past and have some more laid out and I have the
  wood cut for a ukulele and a guitar and a mandolin, and I can't play a
  note. I just like to build things. I make up about 30 to 50 small
  boxes a year for knife and gun collectors and jewelry boxes. I also
  make small carving knives for woodcarvers and some northwest style
  bent or crooked knives. My shop is 30' x 30' with 14' added on the
  back side for metal working and 12' on the front for wood storage. And
  I can't hardy move around in there now. I also am a wood hoarder, I
  have a 8' X 20' and a 12' X 8' sheds full of wood and more stacked
  outside to be milled.

I am looking forward to this Galootaclaus.


 Richard


Richard L. Rombold WIZARD WOODWORKING 489 N. 32nd. St.
Springfield, Or .97478

 Take a look at my mess and work.
 http://www.PictureTrail.com/gallery/view?username=thewizz

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste
good with ketchup"

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