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Originally Posted by Russell Ashley
Dan, your Dad sounds a lot like my Dad. Very few power tools and use what materials you have on hand. That's the attitude the generation who lived through the depression had.
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^^^ This is exactly the case. I think he eventually got a half sheet power sander but he never had a circular saw for example. Definitely a child of the Depression, born in 1923 he came of age just as the Depression happened and it carried on until he joined the Air Force in 1944.
My dad would straighten nails to not have to buy new ones. Sounds silly to us now but to him doing otherwise would be wasteful and frankly, indicate a spoiled person.
He'd spend hours doing things that you & I today would never do.