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New guy in Saskatoon

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DaveK

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Hello, my name is Dave. I live in Saskatoon and have been hacking around with metalworking for a few decades.

In the 1990s I made a Gingery furnace, then all the lathe patterns, and over a few years cast/fit/finished/assembled a Gingery lathe. It was an interesting journey, but ultimately not the best lathe ... so I bought a Ta Shin 10 x 24 (early 1960's best I can tell). A Rhodes 7" shaper (1948ish) and a 2000 House of Tools RF25 mill make up my shop currently ... although I just bought a 1970 ML7 and have 3 other lathes (that combined can be held in one hand, an Adept plus two watchmakers lathes, a Wolf Jahn (WW) and a Star (Geneva) ). Several will be up for sale in the not too distant future .... why would anyone need 6 lathes ? (a rhetorical question folks, as I suspect some here have more than 6 :) ).

Collecting measuring tools (hell, tooling in general) is another obsession, one I blame on my Engineering education (U of S EE 1981, but I fully intended on being an ME when starting in 1977).

Any, it's good to be here and I hope to contribute in some small way now and then, and ask a few dumb questions along the way.

Dave
 
Welcome to the board! It's a great group who are open to answering any questions you might have. (They generally won't tell you it's a dumb question)

Grew up in Saskatoon myself, although now-a-days I'm on Vancouver Island.
 
Thanks all for the warn welcome.

Doggggboy said:
Welcome from near Kronau , Sk. ..
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Thanks, had to look that one up, but now I know. The wife and I were nearby this summer, walked around at Wilcox and Clayback.

Tomc938 said:
Welcome to the board! It's a great group who are open to answering any questions you might have. (They generally won't tell you it's a dumb question)

Grew up in Saskatoon myself, although now-a-days I'm on Vancouver Island.
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Wise man, although your weather has been a bit less desirable lately (still WAY better than the -35 here these days).

Dave
 
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