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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:08 am 
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I'll start:

Creative Zen V, 8GB MP3 player & 3 Creative speakers for the shop

Gift cards to Lowes and Quizno's

A dozen Ferro Roche' chocolate balls

A dozen Titelist's

And a new tie


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A new go-bar deck in the form of multiple Home Depot gift cards!   


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Subscription to Fine Woodworking (after a 20 yr. hiatus), this proper BRW handle for my old scraper plane to replace the cherry one I cobbled up, from my antique tool dealer brother.



Best of all though, was a certificate for hugs and kisses from my children.

It was a good day.

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First name: John
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State: OK
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Nothing for me this year, but my kids were all smiles so that was awesome.

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A visit from my three grandkids and their parents.
Four days off in a row - not since I started my own business in 1991
Four really nice boards of Ziricote. Already started resawing it.


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Some Claro Walnut from the hinterlands. I glued up a back set tonight with two slices, OM size. Mmmmmm mmmm.

Oh, and the clearvue Shop Vac cyclone, which I hope to have operational tomorrow.

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Stew Mac string spacing rule



3* bridge pin hole reamer from Stew Mac



Set of 4 super hard scrapers from Lee Valley - 0.016" - 0.042"



I also got the bridge vacuum clamp from Bob G and I'll have to see what else Santa brings when I get together with the other side of the family tomorrow.

Merry Christmas Everyone

PS: we also got snow for the first time in something like 30 years.

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A Terry's Dark Chocolate orange (if its not dark, chocolate, why bother?)

Two turkey dinners, one with each side of the family.

Antonio Torres, Guitarmaker-His life and times.  I'll be using this for years, I can tell.

We keep the spending low key.


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Bach - Solo Violin Sonatas & Partitas, by Eugene Drucker. I can't tell
you how thrilled I was with this one. I had read about Drucker this
summer when I read The Violin Maker. He's a founding member of
The Emerson String Quartet and ex-concertmaster at Juilliard. The
recording is beautiful. It's wonderful to listen and think, So that's what
a Strad sounds like!


My sister gave me the Planet Earth series on DVD. A PERFECT gift. You
should see some of the amazing footage they have. I hadn't seen the
series before, but now I understand all the talk surrounding it.

Guitar: An American Life. This book was mentioned in a different
thread. I've read three chapters so far and really enjoy it. The book is
similar to The Violin Maker, as it's an expose that follows Rick Davis
as he builds the author's guitar. I love it, and the humor is really good.         & nbsp;        



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I was able to make my wife smile and giggle for a day and be at peace with the world.  Her smiles and giggles were my gifts.


I bought a few new tools for the business, using the cheerful season as a guise to make the expense seem worth it all.


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Uh, I got a new heater for the... shop !!!
Well... piece a coal!

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I got a Christmas bag of Fritos and one of those 7/11 taquito kind of things too! Billy is stuffed!

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I got a lump of coal (bubble gum)
A nice dayplanner and some baked goods.


I did buy a Williams Binding Machine for myself though.


Best of all, I gave the gift of music to my sister and sister in law. They each got a beautiful non-handcrafted guitar, accessories, and lessons.



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- Chuck and 2 sets of turning chisels (small for pens and knobs, regular/large for bigger projects) for the cheap lathe I got a while back.
- 2 of those vacuum clamps from Vac-U-Clamp (tilting 360 degree rotational variety

...and ordered, to pick up when I visit NYC: 1 Triton Router (for table mounting), 1 Bosch Router (2HP, both bases...needed a plunge for electric work), Festool ETS 125 and a Lie-Nielsen adjustable mouth low-angle block plane. And possibly some Blue Spruce chisels, although I'm still doing some math (ie, can I afford them) on those.

Oh, and Amazon had some nice prices going, so my collections of The Shield, The Wire, The West Wing and Scrubs DVDs are finally complete.


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Location: Buffalo, NY
First name: Robert
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New cordless phone with 3 handsets for the new shop from daughter Denice & family along with a nice pair of bookshelf speakers from Rosie, a hand lettered RC Tonewood sign for the office and gift certificate for dinner from my daughter Debbie & family. Nice jacket and 2 Eagles cd's from son Pete & family and a remote starter for my truck from son Bob and familly. Plus lot's of new clothes from Rosie. Best gift of all? Lot's of hugs and kisses from the 8 grandkids.   

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The two Auriou cabinetmakers rasps that I managed to find at Woodcraft after the news of the company's demise was broadcast here. (My wife is glad to have me make tool shopping for me easy!)

Complete recordings of Augustin Barrios, playing his own works plus some others.

Babylon 5 DVD's to watch while I do my exercising.(Now I just need to do them!)

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Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida
First name: Glenn
Last Name: LaSalle
City: Saint Petersburg
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3 Two Cherries Chisels, Japanese Pull Saw, Than Hand Plane book, DVD: Blues Guitar of Rev Gary Davis, and a wonderful day with my Wife and 4 children!!!


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I got gift cards this year,so now
I can go pick out some nice hand tools I need

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Got a Garmin, nuvi 350.  Now when I'm lost, maybe I can get home again.  

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A box of Hickory Farms sausage and cheese...yum

A big package of Starbucks goodies

A worksharp 3000 sharpening system

The kit to build Joe Woodworker's vacuum rig

Clapton's autobiography with a CD matching the timelines

2 new pairs of 501's

Tap Tuning by Siminoff

All the kids and grandkids staying with us for 2 days, now that was my favorite!

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Well I guess I must have been a very nice guy this year....I got my 18" X 36" Delta Drum Sander....I can't wait to get it set up and pass some wood through it.....(wife is really to good to me),,,,Larry


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I got good health, a great bunch of clients, a sweet little dog, a fantastic family, and an even better wife.

All else is just icing....


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Dockers sport/dress shirt
2" spring clamps
gift certificates

Bro is coming in Feb, who will be bringing more with him, I'm told. Can't wait!

Steve

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A bag full of random food from Whole Foods from mom.


A bag full of any cheap tools that my dad could find for free or close to free throughout the year.  Clamps, pliers, router bits...  Not good for geters, but good beaters.


Bag o random beer.


Small compressor with nail gun.


Dustbuster.



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Dewalt 18 volt drill and circular saw combo kit.

This replaces my old 12 volt Milwaukee cordless drill that I burned the switch up on about 6 months ago. I've been using a 30 year old black and decker "corded" drill since then.

Man, it's good to be cordless again!

Oh yeah, I got some clothes too...

Cheers,




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