Payment for priceless dresser

5/30/20, 1:48 PM #1

Bill Tindall, E.TN.
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Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Yesterday I received payment in full for the "priceless" dresser I made for the granddaughter. I offer this example as inspiration to get out to the shop and make something for someone meaningful to you. In one form or another you will get a priceless payment for the effort. (unsure why she is calling it a table)

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5/30/20, 1:55 PM #2

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The best payment in the world!!

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5/30/20, 2:23 PM #3

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I'd frame the note and photo and hang it in my shop, Bill.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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5/30/20, 3:26 PM #4

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

Sweet note, and sounds to be a sweet granddaughter.

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5/30/20, 4:00 PM #5

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Very nice!!

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5/30/20, 6:20 PM #6

Yonak
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Beautiful work . . .

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. . . and, clearly, a cherished piece of furniture.

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5/30/20, 6:37 PM #7

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Very nice work and a thoughtful thank you note. Priceless indeed.

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5/30/20, 7:46 PM #8

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Sweet tribute

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The piece is gorgeous and the customer is clearly delighted. It doesn't get any better than that. Good work, Bill. Yet another family heirloom, a wonderful legacy.

Ellis

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5/31/20, 12:40 AM #9

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Ya know--a class act. No email, no telephone. Not typed. Hand written and a keepsake for you. She was brought up right!

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5/31/20, 2:44 AM #10

Christopher Fitch
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Nice Bill! Looks great!

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5/31/20, 7:37 PM #11

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The dresser you made is so fine and appealing, that it will be handed down in your family forever through the generations. Good thing it’s made to last!

Thanks for sharing the whole story.

Wiley

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Retired water engineer/manager. Born and raised in Charlotte, NC. Advanced degrees at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Came to California in 1972 because of the professional opportunities. Made a living in wastewater and water supply engineering until 1999, planning major facility expansions and upgrades, as well as regional water conservation and water recycling programs, and environmental restoration programs in So. Calif. and SF Bay Delta. Keen J. S. Bach enthusiast, and happy to share with others of like persuasion. Retired early 10 years ago due to illness in the household--we needed another pair of hands at home. Gradually converted nearly all operations over to handtools (and one bandsaw) to minimize noise--need to be able to hear things at all times. Favorite furniture styles: American Federal period, Greene & Greene, and for small items--Krenov. Some favorite tools: Yataiki saws, Konrad Sauer and Clark & Williams handplanes, Japanese chisels, Starrett, and everything North Bros. Screw-arm plough planes. Auriou rasps. Grobet files. And my LN 5-1/2. New emerging favorite: Heiji saws. Some favorite vendors: Lee Valley, Lie Nielsen, Tools for Working Wood (Joel) Grateful to: Ellis Walentine, who has endured much and given all to bring us WoodCentral. ______

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6/1/20, 12:55 AM #12

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Living the dream

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A beautiful payment for a beautiful job.

You've got it all Bill. You are indeed a lucky man.

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6/1/20, 10:36 AM #13

Larry Clinton At Frankfort, (Central) Indiana
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Larry Clinton At Frankfort, (Central) Indiana

Bill, beautiful dresser and even more beautiful "Thank You"! As others have said I would frame the thank you and hang it in my shop along with the picture.

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I am 68 - be 69 in May 2010, have been retired about 4 years from Emerson Electric where I worked as a Engineer for about 40 years. Woodworking is my hobby, I refuse to do any woodworking for money as I am afraid it would become another job. I am very lucky to have a great woodworking shop. My son's and friends helped build it a couple years before I retired. It is a 30 X 30 shop with a 30 X 10 upstairs storage room, heated and air conditioned. I saved and purchased much of my equipment before I retired. I am busier now than when I worked, but seem to get little done :~>. I helped my son remodel his home, made all the woodwork from rough white oak, finished the vanity (from locust), lower kitchen cabinets (cherry) built cedar lined oak chest for my DIL, built a bathroom for my best friend and in process of building storage cabinets for SWMBO.

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6/1/20, 11:16 AM #14

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Brad Chenoweth

Bill, that makes you a rich man indeed!

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