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107358 "Gary Cavener" <gary@c...> 2002‑06‑18 Bio, after considerable lurking
I am Gary Cavener. I live in old tool heck, in Oregon City, Oregon. I have
a shop full of p*w*r tools, which are used less and less as I learn to use
hand tools. I am definitely a "user-collector". I have over a hundred hand
planes, mostly Stanleys and Bedrocks,  but with a few LN, Clifton,
woodies, a Knight smoother, etc. I also have accumulated around 40 misc.
bench chisels and a dozen Disston saws, plus all the other marking and
measuring and clamping tools. I humored myself that I wasn't a collector
until the latest thread about MWTCA came up. I don't really use 3-6
multiples of the Stanley bench planes regularly. I have trouble passing
them up because I'm always looking to improve on the ones I use. My plan
is always to sell the excess pieces, but that doesn't seem to happen much.

'tis a slippery slope and the improved quality of hand tool work has
greased that slope.

I don't like writing bios, but after buying tools from several Galoots and
being embarrassed that you showed yours but I hadn't shown mine, I figured
I'd best expose myself.

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