First I guess I should explain the "GrumpyK" name - one morning some 20 years ago, as I was roaming our kitchen, grumbling about the price of tea in China (or some equally irrelevant issue), my daughter handed something to her nephew, our oldest grandson (then a toddler) and told him to give it to "grumpy Grampy". He promptly passed it on to me, saying "Grumpy ... Grumpy", which has stuck - Betty and I are known in the family as "Grammy and Grumpy". When I say "family", I'm referring to the 7 kids we found time to rear while I worked for 30 years for a major telecommunications and systems manufacturer which made me a retirement buyout offer I couldn't refuse in 1991, plus their spouses and our 11 grandkids whom we cheer on in their "payback" endeavors :^)
I started into woodworking as a 'teen back in the 50's with a little Cummins Do-It Shop, a "poor man's Shopsmith", powered by a 1/4 hp drill - lathe, sander, drill press, 4" table saw. I managed to keep my hand in it through 2 college years and 4 Air Force years and all the work and family rearing, at least until the drill burned out in the 80's after Cummins had long since folded its tent and stolen off into the night. Thereupon the kids sprung for a Crapsman tablesaw which sufficed for some good work until I retired and started filling my shop with some real woodworking equipment. With that I've been slowly attacking several hundred board feet of red oak from hurricane Fran in '96 that I had a friend slice up, and mainly designing and building a Hall Tree / Storage Bench from about 100 bd ft of that red oak. Anyway, happy woodworking!:wink_smil
I started into woodworking as a 'teen back in the 50's with a little Cummins Do-It Shop, a "poor man's Shopsmith", powered by a 1/4 hp drill - lathe, sander, drill press, 4" table saw. I managed to keep my hand in it through 2 college years and 4 Air Force years and all the work and family rearing, at least until the drill burned out in the 80's after Cummins had long since folded its tent and stolen off into the night. Thereupon the kids sprung for a Crapsman tablesaw which sufficed for some good work until I retired and started filling my shop with some real woodworking equipment. With that I've been slowly attacking several hundred board feet of red oak from hurricane Fran in '96 that I had a friend slice up, and mainly designing and building a Hall Tree / Storage Bench from about 100 bd ft of that red oak. Anyway, happy woodworking!:wink_smil
We love to see pictures of your shop, tools, family, projects, lumber-in-storage, grumpy faces etc, so don't forget to post those!
