On Wednesday 26 June 2013 13:31:42 Matt Shaver did opine: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:44:52 -0600 > > EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > > out of curiosity, why has Ray's name come up? Is he one of the > > people who will not consider relicensing so we can get it straight? > > I thought the only real problem child was Paul. > > I think it's just plain curiosity. I'm sure Ray will be fine with > whatever is good for the project. AFAIK Ray is up in the UP of Michigan > making the big bucks sawing, planing and selling basswood carving blocks > to hobbyists and artists.
And, having visited at that shop & came away with some huge slabs of Butternut for peanuts, Ray wanted it out of his way, he is enjoying the heck out of that 'retirement', and furnishing employment to a widowed lady who does a lot of the boxing and packing for him and who is not quite ready to file for SS. > Ray did tell me that he went to see Fred > Proctor at NIST sometime in the early-mid 1990s about the EMC project, > so his involvement in this thing might be just as long as mine. >From the comments he's made to me, likely Matt. But he also isn't a huge name dropper, at least to me. He also had a Smithy table top mill there at the shop, with a good layer of dust on it, and I sorta made a was it for sale type comment, fishing you'd call it, but while it hadn't been dusted in a year or more, it wasn't for sale at a price I was comfortable with since I was looking for a giveaway. :) Looked like the makings of a nice mill, perhaps 6 or 700 lbs worth, but only one motor was in evidence on the table with it. Probably the OEM acme screws yet, your basic starter mill for a project IOW. Had it been for sale, I might have taken my card to the bank in Crystal Falls to get the cash. ;-) But I did put some of that Butternut to work here in the house, the inserts in all the kitchen cabinet doors and drawer faces are now all Butternut. Dee isn't impressed, too dark to suit her, but at least the project is finished, I was tired of looking at a different pattern of stick on paper on each door for 5 years while she tried to make up her mind which one she liked best. So you could say I made up her mind for her. :) > Thanks, > Matt Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing. -- Eugene Ionesco A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
