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187664 "James Shaw" <shaw@E...> 2009‑01‑28 RE: My Bio
Walt
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I'm impressed my your shopshots and work in progress.  My shop is nowhere 
near as photogenic as yours.

When I built the partitioning wall, I wanted to make it out of Plexiglas to
make it appear like a history museum display of early Americana woodworking,
but the wife would not hear of it. Had to make it invisible from her side of
the wall.
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But I want to warn you of one thing, there appears to be a lot of bare bench

top exposed.  You'd better hurry anc cover them with tools and projects; 
experiece has shown that the bench top seriously degrades if exposed to the 
open air.

You caught me in a moment of weakness.  My other three benches are well
protected.
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Now the only thing I suggest is that you need to bring a lathe in there, 
just to add another slippery slope.

Over at the Senior Center Woodworking shop, I have "stand in line" access to
a lathe and other pieces of big iron and abused tools.  If I can figure out
how to fit it in, I might build a small spring pole lathe or perhaps a
treadle lathe made from an old Singer sewing machine;  a shaving horse will
come first I think.

Jim

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