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27765 Jerry Davis <stampy@s...> 1997‑10‑06 BIO (was Re: The voices within...
I sent in a bio when I joined the list but it isn't in the archive so   here goe
s:

I grew up in E. Ky around old ways and old tools.   I always liked to build thin
gs and spent a lot of time working on sheds, pens, barns etc using slabs we scav
enged from my cousin's sawmill.   Sometime during my formative years I developed
 a keen interest in looking at junk.   My maternal grandfather was a (relatively
) large farmer and had large barns and sheds full of neat stuff common around a 
farm.

My brother and I did a lot of remodeling to our house through the years and I pi
cked up some knowledge of carpentry.   Went to college and   studied Forestry, f
inanced it by working construction during summer vacation.      Graduated, went 
back to working construction.   I had recently bought a stereo and needed someth
ing to set it on.   So, I got   oak 1x4 and basically built two ladders and join
ed them with stretchers top and bottom on either side.   Used a handsaw and a ch
eapie *l*ctr*c dr*ll (for drilling dowel holes).   I still use it - it looks ok.

Construction biz got old so I borrowed some money and came to Georgia to graduat
e school.      Then that fateful day I saw my first episode of the Woodwright Sh
op.   I thought the guy was nuts!   It didn't take long for me to come around an
d I was already familiar with the flea market scene.

During a depressing stretch of the early 90s I lived in an apartment away from m
y tools and had no place to use them.   Finally, I bought a house with a shed in
 the back and six months later I stumbled onto the Porch.   You   folks are goin
g to send me to the poor house. :-)

Ah yes, I fund my addictions by providing statistical support to researchers at 
the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station.   Also, another fellow and I   are 
buying part of his father's farm and raise a few cows & calves.

Jerry 
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Jerry Davis stampy@s...   Griffin, GA



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