Dewey Torres
12-25-2008, 10:48 AM
Yesterday was a great day. I was able to meet and talk with a fabulous Creeker Mike Holden and his wife Becky.
We went to lunch and then to his shop where we began to talk and time just flew by. I embarrassed my self trying to learn to use his Gamercy saw (and other English saws including the LN) We talked about Period furniture (clearly his forte). He shared some great ideas with me that I plan to take back to my shop. Mike was the first Creeker I met outside of Colorado Springs and I have to say; I need to do more of it. Heck I feel as if I know about 500 of you anyway.
Mikes basement workshop was small and he has done plenty to make it extremely functional. He has a very impressive collection of hand tools and I got to see first hand his 5 Pennsylvania Spice Boxes. They were really nice to say the least and the hand cut dovetails were splendid. I also noted that he didn’t post a good pic of the dovetails so I took a pic. Throughout his house were some of his works including some hand carved queen an specimens which I failed to take pics of. I may have even gained inspiration to try it myself.
Thanks again for having me Mike.
Walt Caza, sorry we couldn’t make it work this time. You will have to hang on to my winnings.
We went to lunch and then to his shop where we began to talk and time just flew by. I embarrassed my self trying to learn to use his Gamercy saw (and other English saws including the LN) We talked about Period furniture (clearly his forte). He shared some great ideas with me that I plan to take back to my shop. Mike was the first Creeker I met outside of Colorado Springs and I have to say; I need to do more of it. Heck I feel as if I know about 500 of you anyway.
Mikes basement workshop was small and he has done plenty to make it extremely functional. He has a very impressive collection of hand tools and I got to see first hand his 5 Pennsylvania Spice Boxes. They were really nice to say the least and the hand cut dovetails were splendid. I also noted that he didn’t post a good pic of the dovetails so I took a pic. Throughout his house were some of his works including some hand carved queen an specimens which I failed to take pics of. I may have even gained inspiration to try it myself.
Thanks again for having me Mike.
Walt Caza, sorry we couldn’t make it work this time. You will have to hang on to my winnings.