Greetings All, I have been a lurker here for quite a while. I have always had an interest in vintage cars, vintage tools, and being able to make your own tools. I have spent the past few days putting together a vise stand using some ideas that I found here. I hope to post up my project once it is complete. I find doing metalwork to be fun as well as relaxing (since I don't have to do it for a living). My careers have been varied over the years, I started out as an auto mechanic at a corner gas station back in 79, worked as an apprentice tool and die maker during the early 80's. Once they shut down the shipyard I was working in, I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and stayed with them for nine years. Would have been many more but I was wounded during operations and had to be medically retired. After that, I worked in an auto parts store, then went to college got a degree in computers and ran the schools IT department. After a few years of that, my spine was deteriorating, so I had to have a bunch of surgeries, so now the Govt says that I have to stay home. I know that must have bored the **** out of you guys, but if you have continued to read, I appreciate it. My wife and I recently purchased our first house (waited till the price was just right). Now I finally have a garage I can fix up any way I like. This has prompted me to start researching how to build the tools that I will need. I know it is probably heresy, but the car I am working on is a 65 MGB that I purchased back in 1985. I figure I can learn body panel fabrication from you guys, along with many tool ideas. Anyway, I'll let you go. I hope this is a proper introduction. Many thanks for letting me join your awesome forum. ...Semper Fidelis...
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