wolflover

a friend of mine built a beautiful pencil post bed of maple and had to saw it in half to deliver...lucky the owner wasn't home...we've all been there in one way or another...the old adage is true about learning from one's mistakes and if you're lucky...from someone else's

guess i'm a day late (wish that was usual); wound up here after completing the tool survey...not much of a survey...not a single drill powered CNC machine mentioned, or anything from horror freight (tablesaws from $6.99)...Gary, you should do a FWW lampoon

just another sign of the times...is it an economic based decision or is it Norm's choice? I am a carpenter first and a woodworker second. it always seemed to me that was the case with Norm also. it is a natural progression for one to follow if working with/in wood and enjoying learning (at least that's the way it worked out for me). a friend of mine who also followed that path and became a "shop guy" before I did, used to call me "Norm" when he and I worked together in my shop. I took it as a compliment although i didn't know what he was referring to. It was the because I, like Norm, wore my nailbag in the shop. I always used a single bag instead of the big double like Norm wears. After stopping that practice and getting used to only having a tape and pencil attached to me, I can't stand to wear the nailbag anymore. In honor of Norm I will wear it in my shop one more time, and I'll hope I have more things in common with him than just that. One last thing...way back when on TOH we used to hope that Norm would "accidentally" whack Vilas across the jaw with a 2X4...guess Tim Allen "the tool man" was thinking the same because he did that on one of his shows...and Norm, are those really your "safety glasses"? Great show, Great Guy