Subj : Re: woood working
To   : Ed Vance
From : n2qfd
Date : Fri Aug 16 2024 09:21 am

 EV> Just wondering, do You do any woodworking now?
 EV> In Junior High School and High School I took Wood Class(s).
 EV> Built a Cedar Jewelry Box in Junior High and built a small Table in High

  All FB on the journey Ed! My dad knew a guy in the Air Force who was a Ground Power maintainer like him at Kadina AB and when a general had them at inspection and was complaining about some issue this guy stepped up and said, "I can fix it." It was way outside his particular job assignment, but that bit of courage and the aptitude built from other things he had done earned him a field promotion and a stripe that day. Mr. Bartlett survived his Vietnam experience as did my father and came home to work in technical and engineering rolls. 
  Now, as for me, no not so much in the wood shop anymore. I was always more of a mechanic than a carpenter and an electrical and plumbing more than framing. I love my skill saw, and my bench vice but the lions share of tools here are wrenches of various sorts used to keep our cars running, and stopping! I'm just getting to a point where I'm comfortable enough to say, I'm paying someone else this time, but there was a solid 20 years of oil changes and brake jobs and head gaskets and wheel bearings and all the odd stuff that popped up in-be-tween... I had a VW Vanagon for a while and it left me with the impressions that perhaps the Germans were not defeated after the war after all..but it was a god little truck for me and did a lot of work for the fee of pushing it out of the woods and pop starting it. I had to do a starter job and there was a lot of clean up but that was a good deal. My wifes uncle who was a DoD worker abandoned it as too much work on the property. Well it smelled of mouse pretty badly but after I made it road worthy I drove to the dump and unbolted the bench seats (it was a transporter not the camper) and shoved them out the back. Much lighter and less smelly I went back over the scales, paid my fee and collected the title from Walter. Years later the situation reversed and I was in the other part of the state and had no way to take care of the VW and someone solicited him for it and he went and sold it out from under me, mailing be a silver dollar and asking that I send the title on to address X. It was a good lesson in letting things come into my life and letting them go from it. 
  Fun theater story! I worked as a stage hand part time here for a few seasons. Electrician was my title but we got asked to do other stuff as you did once it's known you're good for it. Worked some shows as a dresser, and everyone is a lumper when the show come in and after last curtain. Elmira is a little town but we get off Broadway touring shows and have a yellow card from the union that lets us employ non union labor as needed for productions. It's good in theory but it means someone walks over to the buss stop and waves around some cash and you get what you'd expect from that! 

  I figured South Paw was probably left handed. My mom set the table backwards according to my dad, but she was quick to say she was in her right mind at least. 

  Have a great weekend, 

  Mal

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