I had a great visit with one of the shop "managers" from our church shop. We had a demo on making cabinet doors Saturday morning and as usual the talk turned to turning after the demo. Pete invited me to his shop to pick up some walnut he ricked about 3 years ago. Like most of us old timers he gets up early so I popped in about 8 and holy cow...what a shop!! PM stuff everywhere...not a spot on the floor and about 4 sets of cabinets in several stages of done-ness. He sent me home with a 12x6x48 slab of walnut and an invite to work on my canoe at his place. I need to plane 3 2x4's 16' long screwed together for the bench to build the canoe on...what does Pete have? PM thickness planer he just put new blades on. He's been retired for 8 years now...wants me there Saturday morning to get working on the boat. 12 more years.....
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