Within Internet-based woodworking communities, a galoot is a handtool aficionado, specifically old handtools (antique tools). This is contrasted with users of any hand tools who are called neanderthals in a number of internet woodworking communities. For many, the two terms are interchangeable. In this context, a galoot or neanderthal is one who hunts used hand tools and/or insists on using hand tools in preference to power tools, especially hand planes. Galoots may also champion tools that others would consider a lost cause, lovingly restoring a rusted or damaged tool by sanding, scraping, lapping, or using electrolysis to remove rust and repairing or replacing parts required to restore the tool to a usable state. Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ... A hand tool is a device for doing a particular job that does not use a motor, but is powered solely by the person using it. ... Antique tools are generally defined as tools over 100 years old, but often this definition is used more loosely to refer to any tool manufactured before WWII. The use of tools is one of the primary means by which humans are distinguished from animals. ... A power tool is a tool with a motor. ... This article or section should be merged with Plane (tool). ... sheets of sandpaper Sandpaper is a form of paper where an abrasive material has been fixed to its surface; it is part of the coated abrasives family of abrasive products. ... A card scraper (also known as a cabinet scraper) is a woodworking shaping and finishing tool. ... Lapping is an abrasive machining operation. ... It has been suggested that Electrolytic process be merged into this article or section. ...

The galoot community includes, but is not restricted to, collectors of old tools. The only qualification for being a galoot is a love of hand tools (especially older hand tools) and a willingness to admit that this love may seem odd or unexplainable to others. By extension, galoots are often interested in old methods of achieving wood or metal work. For example, it is not uncommon for a galoot to create a replacement tool handle with a spokeshave, to resaw a plank with a frame saw, or even to forge and temper his or her own chisels. Spokeshaves A spokeshave is a tool used to straighten and smooth wooden rods and shafts, often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs or arrows. ... A blacksmiths forge For finery forges (making iron) see finery forge. ... Tempering is a heat treatment technique for metals and alloys. ... Steel woodworking chisel. ...

Many galoots hold Roy Underhill, of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, in extremely high regard and may refer to him with the shorthand "St. Roy". Roy Underhill was raised in Washington, DC and was the first master housewright at the Colonial Williamsburg reconstruction. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... The Woodwrights Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on PBS. It is one of the longest running how to shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979 the show has had over 200 episodes. ...

Galoot should not be confused with Galloot, although pronounced the same. 'Galloot' is a word used by the cartoon character Yosemite Sam - he frequently refers to Bugs Bunny as a 'idjut lop-eared galloot'. Yosemite Sam is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes series of cartoons. ... Bugs Bunny is a fictional street-smart gray rabbit that appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. ...

Galoot is a left-recursive acronym which means "Galoots are lovers of old tools". alternate definition; "Gregarious Association of Lovers Of Old Tools" In computer science, left recursion is a special case of recursion. ...

External links

• Definition and history from Old Tools mailing list
• Roy Underhill web site
• Internet Hand-Tool Knowledge Base