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Thom Schuck

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You all are doing incredible work! I look and read everything posted. All of you inspire me to keep trying. Learning new skills with shaky hands sitting in a wheelchair is hard on a good day but I look forward to throwing that switch every chance I get. You folks REALLY help me to keep going. I am grateful, always learning and one of these days I will post a photo up of something worthy of sharing. I am a professional woodworker by trade and a turner by accident. I love looking at all of your photos. This is such a great forum to be part of!
Thom Schuck… AKA “ The New Guy”
 
Hi Tom, I see you’re in Portland. I highly encourage you to join one of the local clubs. Membership is only $35 or $40 (depending on which club) and you’ll save that much on sandpaper alone with your member discount. Each club meets monthly and features local and national demonstrators as well as hands on open shop days and classes. I am a former recording secretary for Northwest Woodturners and incoming president of Cascade Woodturners. I’d love to see you at a meeting! Also, Portland will be hosting the AAW Symposium in May next year!
 
Thank You very much. I am really beat up. Getting around is hard plus I have huge energy issues. My up time is about 2.5 hours. Up time is from when I swing my legs out of bed until I am ready to drop. Thats usually around two hours….. I will look up both organizations online and see whats what. I can move around using TriMet Lift but those vans beat me up bad. It’s brutal to my spine. But I sure will check it out and see what is what. Thanks for the invite…. TS
 
No worries. Thank You much for the offer. The hardest part of my disability is excepting the things I could do but no longer can. So what one needs to do is count your blessings and focus on what you can do. Once you reach that point your life will be more fulfilling. I owned and operated my own company Schuck & Hausman Fine Fraiming for 25 years in the Portland Pearl District. We bulit things square not round. I had a full on woodworking shop that had every machine in the book with two full time wood dudes. When we closed in 2008 I sold off all my machinery. When I started to go nuts I found and bought a used Shopsmith. What a hoot! Everything is different on a Shopsmith. When I truly lost my legs I decided to start turning. I loved it. As time progressed and my body kept breaking I was quick to notice that the way rails were the problem. So I did the smartest thing ever. I bought a Laguna 1216 lathe. Now I was cooking with gas! I love quality tools. It’s a BIG problem. I met a dude named Doug Thompson. Oh Boy! Then I met Cindy Drozda. Need I say more? I dont own a RED tool one. I do have some wicked nice Blue Spruce chisels and a box full of Bridge City Tools. I must admit the majority of my lathe chisels are Robert Sorby and Crown PM. I am always on the hunt for unusual woods that are in blocks or good for spindle work. I have been learning to turn making candlesticks and a couple of hollow vessels. I have gone thru the bottom of all 3 bowls I have tried to make. UGHHHHH! So next up is Bowl Turning. I am all set up for offboard turning and my chair fits under the 20” extension perfectly. I read everything I get my hands on. I watch YouTube videos most of my days. Then I go out and make saw dust. Oh! I custom built my lathe stand. That way my wheelchairs and powerchairs have the perfect fit. I also built my own wheelchair ramp sitting in my chair. I am told it was a site to see! Hey, it works and it works well. Thanks Much to all of you. If you ever have a block or chunk of odd wood let me know! I live just up the street from Summerlake Park in Tigard. I always have time and always have a big glass of iced tea ready to go.
LIVE BIG!
Thom Schuck
 
Kevin Jesequel said:
I’m sorry to hear about your situation, Thom. But, I am glad you have found the pure joy of woodturning regardless (or maybe in spite of). If you ever decide you’d like some in person instruction, let me know and I’ll come to you.
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I went past your ranch today. It’s either the big grey house or the yellow one with wood at the bottom of the garage door. A or B?
 
Kevin,
I hope this reaches you. I have a problem with AAW. On top of that I am injured. I got it by a drunk driver in my wheelchair. Right now I am in bed on pain meds. I can get pretty goofy. I wrote a email to Jane? who is AAW admiastrator. Jane told me I am not a member. I have been posting questions for 4 years now. The reason I am doing this now is I have a huge amount of time on my hands. I never have liked the fact that if you put the name Thom Schuck into your browser my name and my Bio pop up on the internet. I thought that bio would be held within the AAW. I have never liked that. I may be wrong but I believe it was you who came to my aid and removed my MBA & and my PhD. From my bio? I may be wrong. Others have tried to help me since then. They tell me to click on this tab to access my bio intel. That tab or button does not come up on my iPad. I cant get help. Here is what I want. Can you have whoever completely deleat my entire bio and get my name off the WWW. I dont like that at all. If they can deleat my membership will that go away? Then I can rejoin. I know the rules say you mus use your real name as your handle. Yet I received several emails telling me “what were you thinking?”. Can you jump in and help me out. There are a ton of weird things that go on when I go to log in. When I try to log in it does not recognize me and spits me out. The only way I can post is to open your old mail and that gets me right in. Something is not right. But being told after 4 years I am not a member left me slack jawed. If I am not a member… than what am I? At least hopefully you can respond to my questions. Just last week I was asking about CBN wheels. I got a ton of feedback. Can you check this out when you have time?
Regards,
Thom Schuck
Portland, Oregon
 
Thom Schuck said:
Something is not right. But being told after 4 years I am not a member left me slack jawed. If I am not a member… than what am I?
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Hi, Thom. Just thought I'd pop in my 2 cents- Not sure if you know this, but forums membership is not the same thing as AAW membership... (Forums membership is free, but AAW Membership, have to keep your dues paid to remain a member - The AAW being at woodturner.org )

SO if you have paid dues every year, then I'd think you'd have some sort of credit card receipt or CC statement for them, then you could prove membership - but if you are meaning these forums alone, then while membership here is free, the folks over at woodturner.org (the actual AAW) would not have those records.

- So when it comes to AAW you can be a member of the forums without being a member of the AAW.. (and vice-versa, too.) So, if you don't have an active dues-pad membership, then Jane, the AAW administrator would not be able to help you, you'd need to message one of the board admins (Chris Faribanks is one of the tech geek guys in these forums..) because these forums are not a part of the AAW itself.

Lastly, as far as your name and info coming up on a web search, there's next to nothing that you can do to keep them off - any link that you can click on - search engine robots can click on too, and index the results (which is how your name, etc gets on the web to begin with) so the only way to KEEP your info off the web, once you get it fully scrubbed (Which can be difficult to do, and take a long time) is pretty much to STAY off the web, meaning not signing up to forums, and other online memberships (Most of which will have public forums in order to get indexed by search engines..) - Even websites that try to preserve member privacy by restricting bots can't prevent it that way- plenty of those robots completely ignore those restrictions- so anything that can be clicked on, they'll follow. (only way to prevent them from progressing is to require a valid login every time, and even then, it'll depend on the individual members being fully secure - Robots can store and/or snatch up session cookies - known as hijacking - if the web browser a person is using has a security flaw... giving the robot access to restricted members-only areas that way... But giving more detailed account access only for that one individual's account, but they can still index whatever any given member is able to view or click on behind that login.)
 
Hey Thom, I’m not sure who helped you before, but it wasn’t me. It must have been an admin, but I wouldn’t know which one. Perhaps @Bill Boehme can help you in some way. I think Brian covered the answers to your questions very well in his reply above.
 
I have now discovered what went wrong. I am a member of the AAW Forum. I am not a member of AAW. Jane the head person figured it out for me. People get so angry at me when I dont catch on. It really starts to add up and take a toll. I took a class on being disabled at Providence. It was really good. The way they explained things sure did introduce clarity where there was none. I will sign up and write a check when Geri gives me the nod to join. Thats for helping me along. I hope I did not bug you.
Regards,
Thom Schuck
Tigard. BOOM !!!
 
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