I have participated in this Wreckish environment for many years - but
without understanding.
As a professional woodworker, I dealt with tools as commodities.
I bought and sold tools according to my professional needs - and this
was good - so far as it went.
I coveted naught which was not to be coveted for economic benefit.
Think you not that I did not enjoy a well formed tool - for I did.
But, it was in the way of hurrying me on to some particular task.
Having all to recently achieved the status of WoodDorker, as opposed
to Professional Woodworker, I am encumbered by a good bit of cultural
shock.
My Collectoris had never been adequately stimulated.
I know, you will say that for a man of middle age, this is a great
embarrassment - and I would be loathe to disagree with you.
However, having been brought to the precipice of the consideration of
tools as more than objects useful in the pursuit of trade related
matters - I must confess to find myself in awe.
In awe - I say to you - in awe of their ability to stimulate the
Colectoris.
Where once I contemplated salvation and resurrection on the altar of
Altendorf and Biesse, now is my path secure in its reverence for
Sweetheart and Bedrock.
The Collectoris is engorged and never to be satisfied.
Not by the friction of mere acquisitiveness, without regard for
essence.
Not by the wanting without the having.
Not through the stimulus of proximity without climactic interface.
Lordy, does no one know where I can get a Goddard Townsend Reverse
Profile in trade for a Satanly 55 and a moderately rusted 93?
Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)
Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have participated in this Wreckish environment for many years - but
> without understanding.
>
> As a professional woodworker, I dealt with tools as commodities.
>
> I bought and sold tools according to my professional needs - and this
> was good - so far as it went.
>
> I coveted naught which was not to be coveted for economic benefit.
>
> Think you not that I did not enjoy a well formed tool - for I did.
>
> But, it was in the way of hurrying me on to some particular task.
Ah, mayhap it was the inculcation from my Engineer Father on the beauty
of a good tool, but my own work tools are more than mere accessories. In
my case it is microscopes and fine dissection tools. I have a pair of
microscissors so fine I use them once in a blue moon. But that is to
miss the point, just to have such a thing is a mote of comfort. I still
remember with a pang the fine pair of suture holders I had to leave in a
previous lab (they cost too much to let me walk off with them). It was
the finest pair in the lab, nay the institute, easy on the eye, they
laid in the hand with perfect balance and ne'er slipped on the job,
sigh.
As a mere amateur in the woodwrecking business, I do still frequent the
old tool merchant out in the countryside. I have an eclectic collection
of mortise chisels in very fine tool steel (one blade is laminated) and
a mid '60s Stanley #7 jointer that I fettled up and now takes tissue
thin shavings. The bug has bit, only the budget and swmbo stand in the
way....
Peter
--
Add my middle initial to email me. It has become attached to a country
It was somewhere outside Barstow when Tom Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Lordy, does no one know where I can get a Goddard Townsend Reverse
>Profile in trade for a Satanly 55 and a moderately rusted 93?
According to the news column in FWW (this one or the last) there's a
UK(?) maker of router bits who is now making router bits in such
profiles. They're bad enough to cut with a shaper - but doing it with
a tiny router bit? Can you say tearout on the flanks ?
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> My Collectoris had never been adequately stimulated.
Join the club. Write a book ('The Story of T") perhaps. Host a late night
call in radio show for dysfunctional 'dorkers or 'dorkers who aren't sure
where to find theres.
Like they say "When one orifice closes, another one opens."
>
> I know, you will say that for a man of middle age, this is a great
> embarrassment
Just 'tween you and me - Pfizer's got something in the worx for this.
Don't think they'll use Bob Dole, this time.
>
> In awe - I say to you - in awe of their ability to stimulate the
> Colectoris.
Just takes practice, start early and an understanding family.
Doing it in public still raises some eyebrows.
If caught just redirect their attention to the breastfeeding lady on the
left.
>
> The Collectoris is engorged and never to be satisfied.
You may have a more serious condition - not sure if it's simple nymphomania
or a perversion.
Have you talked to your Doctor about this?
Bob Schmall
>Dear Thomas J.:
>A professional woodsperson who may have swum into your ken, appellation of
>Mark Duginske, told me he has 300 hand planes. Consider yourself warned: the
>engorgement is nowhere near complete.
Nor, it sounds like, even started.
UA100, owner of many many things related to w**dd*rk*ng...
"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have participated in this Wreckish environment for many years - but
> without understanding.
>
> As a professional woodworker, I dealt with tools as commodities.
>
> I bought and sold tools according to my professional needs - and this
> was good - so far as it went.
>
> I coveted naught which was not to be coveted for economic benefit.
>
> Think you not that I did not enjoy a well formed tool - for I did.
>
> But, it was in the way of hurrying me on to some particular task.
>
> Having all to recently achieved the status of WoodDorker, as opposed
> to Professional Woodworker, I am encumbered by a good bit of cultural
> shock.
>
> My Collectoris had never been adequately stimulated.
>
> I know, you will say that for a man of middle age, this is a great
> embarrassment - and I would be loathe to disagree with you.
>
> However, having been brought to the precipice of the consideration of
> tools as more than objects useful in the pursuit of trade related
> matters - I must confess to find myself in awe.
>
> In awe - I say to you - in awe of their ability to stimulate the
> Colectoris.
>
> Where once I contemplated salvation and resurrection on the altar of
> Altendorf and Biesse, now is my path secure in its reverence for
> Sweetheart and Bedrock.
>
> The Collectoris is engorged and never to be satisfied.
>
> Not by the friction of mere acquisitiveness, without regard for
> essence.
>
> Not by the wanting without the having.
>
> Not through the stimulus of proximity without climactic interface.
>
>
> Lordy, does no one know where I can get a Goddard Townsend Reverse
> Profile in trade for a Satanly 55 and a moderately rusted 93?
>
>
>
> Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker
Dear Thomas J.:
A professional woodsperson who may have swum into your ken, appellation of
Mark Duginske, told me he has 300 hand planes. Consider yourself warned: the
engorgement is nowhere near complete.
Bob
Tom Watson <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
<snip of a Sunday confession...>
>
> Lordy, does no one know where I can get a Goddard Townsend Reverse
> Profile in trade for a Satanly 55 and a moderately rusted 93?
>
If you want to meet, electronically speaking, the truly addicted, you must
lurk on the Hand Tools Forum at WoodCentral.com.
Patriarch
Tom Watson wrote:
> I know, you will say that for a man of middle age, this is a great
> embarrassment - and I would be loathe to disagree with you.
The problem is if you play with your Collectoris too much, your palms will
get hairy and you will go blind. :)
--
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:11:30 -0800, charlie b <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Tom:
>
>A wordsmith inititally.
>Now a cunning linguist.
>
>charlie b
>
>where was Nowreki when Krunchy was on the prowl?
Charlie, I think that the general run of folks got tired of Nowrecki,
and he maybe moved to Florida, or some other Third World country.
Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:38:18 GMT, "patrick conroy"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>
>> My Collectoris had never been adequately stimulated.
>
>Join the club. Write a book ('The Story of T") perhaps. Host a late night
>call in radio show for dysfunctional 'dorkers or 'dorkers who aren't sure
>where to find theres.
>
... something like, "Ask Dr. Tom"?
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The absence of accidents does not mean the presence of safety
Army General Richard Cody
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:38:18 GMT, "patrick conroy"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>You may have a more serious condition - not sure if it's simple nymphomania
>or a perversion.
>Have you talked to your Doctor about this?
>
>
I have indeed consulted The Docktah! - and this is what he said:
Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
From: [email protected] (Patrick Leach)
Date: 28 Jul 1994 11:23:04 GMT
Local: Thurs, Jul 28 1994 4:23 am
Subject: The return of tool slinging.
Back by popular demand (ok, so two guys requested it), it's another
tool
list expressly presented to you, the modern neanderthal, to read at
your
(dis)pleasure. A few surprises are contained within, so be sure to
give it
a thorough reading.
Some unsolicited testimonials -
"I knew that someday that lummox, Patrick Leach, would be
selling
my planes through a computer."
- Leonard Bailey, Inventor.
"I started with one plane from Patrick Leach. Now I've caught
the
collecting bug. I've lost my wife and kids, my home, and my
self-respect. Life in the gutter is bleak."
- A dude, who would rather be fishing.
"I am not a crook, nor is Patrick Leach."
- Dick Nixon, dead President.
All tools are guaranteed as represented, and any flaws or defects
are
mentioned. Shipping charges (exact amount to go from Tool Nirvana to
you)
are added.
(watson - who fondly and barely remembers when reading the Wreck took
more than two brain cells).
Thomas J. Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1 (webpage)