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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,829
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Hell for stout is the key Austin...hell for stout. You want to be able to really pound on it. My best estimate, dad built mine during the 1940's...the fine grain in that beat up old lumber would make a wood worker of today cry. Fir lumber for the base structure, all of it "old growth"...they used beautiful wood for even construction grade lumber in those days. I find myself talking to my dad when working on that bench or using one of his old tools. Sometimes, I think he answers. 
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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