OT - Hi Boys and Girls I'm Back

[ROYNEU]

Well, after a three year stint at trying to get a house built (Actual build time 1 1/2 years and a contractor that couldn't finish the job). A crashed computer with my restore disks stored somewhere in one of two storage sheds. And no time anyway because I had to finish what a crook contractor couldn't do at the price he said he could do it at. I won't even go into how may underhanded low down drug taking people I've met in the construction business. But, it's done to the point we can live in it. Some cabinets & molding work still needs to be done. But, Thanksgiving (of which we are very) and Christmas will be a real celebration for us this year.

Some may remember me, some don't. But on Usenet nobody cares anyway. I've been around since the internet was young. Before Al Gore claimed there was one. I was here when El Guapo was the talk of the town. I was here when JOAT was a 14 year old grummpy old man fresh on line with WebTv. How ya doing JOAT man? Tom Watson are you still telling your stories? I was here during the spammer attacks. But, it's good to see many of you are still here. I have come back home.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Roy Neudecker

[Robatoy]

I don't remember you, but I really, really care.....ohwhatthehell.....

*hugs*. r

[Phisherman]

Welcome back. I don't have first-hand experience, but I know you can speed construction work by buying all the materials and paying the labor when the work is completed to your satisfaction. If one contractor refuses, there's always another that is willing.

Happy Turkey Day!

[Mark & Juanita]

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Welcome back; sounds like a tough 3 years.

[dadiOH]

Roy, baby...howzit??

Thanks, you too.

[charlieb]

While you were gone

Dubya took out The Cabal.

Fundamentalist Insurgent Woodworkers are opposing the installed replacements to The Cabal

Shellac prices have, as you know, sky rocketed.

Wood is now being sold in BM (board meters) and prices are now quoted in Euros.

Canadians are buying up cheap American products now that the exchange rate has tilted so far in their favor. Their snapping up "cheap" Lie Nielsen planes by the dozens. They're also taking tool hunting vacations to US flea markets hoping to pick up Stanley planes and chisels for a song.

O'Deen is looking into getting dual citizenship and going through his change jar looking for Canadian coins.

Rumor has it that Lee Valley and Veritas are re- evaluating their business plan.

Purchasing a Festool tool now requires a credit check to qualify for 36 month loans.

Oh - and the price of a barrel of oil has gone from $60 to pushing $100 (US) - that's $70 (Can) to $45 (Can).

Katrina and Iraq needed all the plywood being manufactured - in the world - so ply prices went through the roof. Thankfully most of us don't use much copper in our woodworking projects because copper prices went vertical too. Nobody is even thinking of rewiring their shops. The folks worried about Static Discharge in their dust collection system ducts are now using silver wire since it's now cheaper than copper wire.

Tom Plamann has gone Pro - and built a HUGE phreakin' shop and finally got to make the "groined dome ceiling" he's been wanting to do for years.

got nailed by a pet owner whose dog ate something like anitfreeze. posted a question here and all hell broke out for months.

Bennett and Strickland got into it about precision and accuracy.

And that's about it. Sort of like soap operas. Watch two days worth after missing a few years and you're all caught up.

charlie b

[Gerald Ross]

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Hey, I missed the dog story. Must have been while my N-Filter was set on "stun".

[ROYNEU]

Oh, Charlie I thought W was the head of the Cabal. See here all along I thought his strained speaking style was carring secret messages to the membership.

So does this mean we are officially a 3rd world Country? If we are maybe we can start sending all the work back to the people who live here.

Is O'Dean still selling shellac? Has he gotten filthy rich since the prices have gone up?

Roy

Thanks Charlie I needed that!

[Mike Marlow]

Yeuch... geeze - don't do that stuff in public. At least go out in the shed...

[George Anderson]

Hi Roy

Can't say as I recall your name (not that that means anything) but I remember all of the events that you have described. Welcome back! I can sympathize about certain contractors. My wife and I did all the internal construction on our own house after we got some very frightning quotes (many included above board and below board prices). It took us 2 years from start to finish (house only no landscaping) including the birth of our first child. But at the end we were both exhausted from 12 to 16 hour days seven days a week as we both had full time jobs. Ever wonder where Spokeshave went? Just unloaded my latest purchase, a decent table saw, posted a pic of it in the truck on A.B.P.W. under "The Beast".

George Anderson Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

ROYNEU wrote:

[ROYNEU]

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Hi George,

Thank you for the welcome back from you and everybody.

Sorry to read that about the hours spend working a job and on the house. That is where I was at. I've taken a few weekends off and I feel like a new man.

I do remember Spokeshave.He was certainly a good read. I know in the Spam wars a lot of guys got tired of the constant bombardment of garbage. Some change their screen names to avoid the attacks. I am happy to see it has calmed down.

I work for a Canadian company. Maybe you know the name. QuebecorWorld, Inc.?

[Mark & Juanita]

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Also, there was a truck driver, Silvan, who delivered mill furniture; haven't seen him around in a long time.

Last listing in google.news for spokeshave is May 1999, doesn't seem like it's been that long ago, I wonder if he had no-archive set after that

[Bonehenge (B A R R Y)]

I miss him!

He posted as late as '04.

[jo4hn]

I seem to recall that his wife had some serious health problems and he decided to spend more family time and less on the rec. Anybody remember the joke featuring "wimminz"?? onward, jo4hn

[Tom Bunetta]

I wonder where the Duke of URLs is and how he's doing. And I miss Paully (RIP) and David (Pauls friend and Chief Lizard keeper. Tom

[Pat Barber]

The "Duke" stays over in a forum that he helped create.

don't believe he has been back here in a few years now.

I also miss a number of the old timers myself.

Tom Bunetta wrote:

[ROYNEU]

Tom,

Help me remember was Paully the gent from Down Under (Australia). The Jara King. He was the inventor of the term "Piney Wood" wasn't he? Has he trully died? Or, just gone?

[Tom Watson]

Duke of URLS became UnisawA100 - AKA Keith Bohn - who has gone on to the Old Tools Forum.

Walt Akers has no current website.

Paddy O'Deen sold out to a schlep and is no longer in the shellacky bidness.

Sylvan was driving a truck and then had a epiphany and no longer posts.

JOAT had to go through some transmogryfing - but he is still the same old JOAT - if you want his email address - ping me on the back side - and I still won't give it to you - because he said that he would swoop up out of the Carolinas and kill me.

I don't post stories anymore because the people who are left are too dumb to appreciate them.

I'm happy to see you back but you are coming back to a group that is not what it was.

Regards,

Tom Watson

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Puckdropper]

Tom Watson wrote in news: [e-mail]:

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I printed off the "Ode to a Corded Drill" a few weeks ago and shared it with the family. We had a project where the cordless drills just couldn't keep up and had to get a corded one instead.

Just wanted to say thanks for posting it when you did.

Puckdropper

[jo4hn]

No. The Aussie gent is Phully who lives in western Australia and makes fine (really fine) furniture for a living. Some of his Jarra stuff will take your breath away.

I'm not sure where "piney wood" came from although Phully and Jim McNamara (Jummy) had a long standing dialog. Jummy is a musician who makes rather nice stuff from pine when he doesn't have a gig. Hence pine became Jummywood. As an afterthought, I added the term Western or Pacific Jummywood (doug fir) since that is what you buy at the borgs here in lala land.

You might want to google Phully. He does have a website.

mahalo, jo4hn