Introducing myself *LINK*

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Doug in Leawood KS

>Geez, I need to proof-read these things! Is there any way to edit a posted message?

Doug

Nope...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Hi Doug, Sorry you can't edit a post. Nice to meet you. I like the furniture on your web page, great work.

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Welcome Doug.I think you'll find a few posters here are in your area.---Jack

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Ernie Miller

>Welcome!! Neighbor! We susaly get together for breakfast befor the wood show in KC every year I just live down the road to the west in Topeka Let know if you need any thing I have a way of finding it. Always wanting to help out friends.

handsome pieces

bill tindall

>With your talent you need to be contributing more and lurking less.

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Doug in Leawood KS

>Thanks Bill. I have followed your metallurgy posts with great interest (although I'm enough of a Neander to stick with carbon steel - I know how to sharpen it!)

Doug

WHOA

Adam Cherubini

>Slow down here. Don't we have forum rules prohibiting posts from folks who actually make stuff? Sorrry Doug. We just talk about stuff here. Your kind aren't welcome here.

Seriously- I like your work and I like your style. But I especially appreciated the wide range of styles- you had some Shaker looking stuff (the wall cabinets in the room with the high ceiling) the modern stuff, and the pretty little ogee foot walnut(?) chest. I don't know if that's good for business. In fact, I'm skeptical. But as a woodworker, you certainly get my respect and admiration.

Adam

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Doug in Leawood KS

>Adam,

Thanks for your comments. Yes I love almost all styles of furniture (no Victorian or Empire please), from Micheal Fortune to the Seymour brothers (especially them!) I enjoy designing the contemporary stuff and giving my right brain a chance to work for a while, but I adore period furniture. The fact that they made such amazing pieces without power tools is humbling. Of course they had apprentices to do the grunt work, but I don't think it is a coincidence that the height of furniture-making came BEFORE power tools. I can't picture Duncan Phyfe thickness planing stock, although I am sure they all paid their dues as youngsters.

I have loved reading about people like Gene Landon and Andy Marlow in FWW, before it descended into what it is today. I just subscribed to Popular Woodworking, so I won't miss any of your columns. (Oh, and Chris S., if you're reading this, did PopWood really have to do that article on Norm? Geez, hasn't that been done to death by every other magazine out there? No personal offense intended, as I have enjoyed your posts as much as I have Adam's, and at least PopWood has a reasonable balance of actual woodworking vs power tool reviews. Also, I realize that you personally probably don't have total control over the magazine's content, and we all have bills to pay.)

Adam, I also want to say that I read EVERY post you put up, and have learned a great deal from you, especially about work benches. I have a new one planned. I was going to make a Klausz/Frid type until I started reading the posts here by you and others. Now I intend to travel back a couple of hundred years for a design. Making those wooden screws will be a learning experience. I'm too cheap to pay $195 for a set from someone that actually knows what they are doing (although I know this is false economy.)

I did do woodworking full-time for three years, but the rest of the time it has been a hobby, albeit a consuming one.

By the way, I got Silas Kopf's video last week, and enjoyed it immensely. You can get it at Tools for Working Wood or www.silaskopf.com.

Thanks again Adam,

Doug

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Posts can only be edited by the moderators. That would be Ellis, Dan Donaldson, Ted Owen or myself. We often fix thing like busted links, double posts, the wrong picture, etc., but in the case of simple typos and missing small words here and there, if the intent is still clear, we usually don't bother, because everybody makes them every once in a while. If you post something that is really unintelligible or that you later regret having posted, just send one or more of us an e-mail, and we will be glad to take care of it. Welcome. I'll be looking forward to your sharing of more of your skills and artistry with us.

HELP!

Adam Cherubini

>My head has swollen so much that I can't get out of my shop! I'm stuck in here. Thank goodness for wireless networks. Maybe if my enlarged noggin doesn't block out (or gravitationally absorb) all the light, I can get something done!

Thanks a lot Doug!

Adam