At 10:25 PM -0500 12/13/96, J. Kaufman wrote:
>Greetings to the folks up on the porch.

Josh--
	Welcome to the porch.  I'm sure the various merchants among us will
be glad to help you move beyond your Record 4 1/2, as you have already
taken yourself, apparently.  The real question: How's your BENCH coming
along.  I (and I think many other galoots) soon found, after or along with
the *conversion experience* that a real wooden-top bench of some sort, with
face and end (OK, and/or shoulder and tail) vises, dogs, tray becomes the
center of the shop.  Heck, for Darren in Kearney it's a life! ;-)  I'm
trying to remember who told the saga of the 8-year bench project.  Only in
such a place as Whittier, HaHalifornia, does any galoot admit to putting
cast iron and sharp steel to wood  *secured* in a Sears Workmutt. But he's
a real special galoot, and we love him anyhow.  ;-)
	Tom Holloway,
who just chopped off a pin when he should have been taking out waste, thus
setting back a dovetailed box Xmas present by just that much.  I hate it
when that happens.  *Think before chopping* has now become my watchword.