NAME> Robert Bastow 

POSTS TO RCM AS> teenut

E-MAIL> teenut, sadly, is deceased	
	
WEB PAGE> http://teenut.homestead.com/teenut.html

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BIOGRAPHY OR OTHER INFORMATION
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All RCM members are encouraged to contribute their recollections
of teenut to this biography.

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From Ellen Bastow

Robert Bastow was born in Huddersfield, England. He was proud to 
be fromYorkshire.  He was a gifted machinist and orator.  He loved 
woodworking, knife making, metal working and gun smithing.  He made 
his workbenches and usually rebuilt any machine he bought.  He was 
the most happy when he was making his machines sing.  He was working 
on a Mauser action when he passed away after 9 months of battling 
small cell lung cancer.  He treasured his time on the NG and enjoyed 
"getting into it" with fellow metal crafters.  His advice might have
sounded harsh at times, but he was a true master at his craft.

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From Steve Stallings

Teenut (Robert Bastow) was one of the most memorable people to ever
join us on rec.crafts.metalworking. His knowledge, passion, and 
"attitude" kept us reading his every post. He contributed many long
and useful posts on such things as drill grinding, gun regulations,
machining techniques, and shop safety, ... of course, human nature.

Ellen Bastow has provided biographical information (above) and allowed
us to use the pictures from the web page that she posted. I will repeat
Ellen's comments and attempt to add a little on some of the shop photos.

teenut04.jpg - Teenut, enjoying the sun at his in-laws 50th wedding 
   anniversary. (Hard to imagine that this could have ever been the
   nasty old "Bob" that teenut hinted was in his past.)

teenut09.jpg - Teenut, being serious, pre-cancer. 

teenut10.jpg - Sitting at his desk, comtemplating how to respond 
  to the threads on metalworking.  Note - the Malaox

teenut21.jpg - Robert at a dude ranch in Grant, Colorado in 
  July of 2000.  Note the walking stick - he carved this himself. 
  He had the time of his life - riding horses, whitewater rafting
  and being a ranger.  

Woodworking_Bench.jpg - We may not have heard much about teenut's
  interest in woodworking, but it stands to reason that someone who
  had his love of craftsmanship would persue woodworking. I envy his
  organization and cleanliness.

Metalworking_Bench.jpg - Again neat and clean. Front and center is
  one of the rifles that he loved. Teenut was working on creating
  his dream rifle action as a small production/custom order sideline
  to his new machine shop business.

500Jeffery.jpg, Banner_action.jpg, Bench_and_rifle.jpg - These are
  additional views of the rifle action on which teenut was working.

lathe_general.jpg - This is a picture of teenut's Emco Maier Super 11
  lathe. I shared teenut's love for this model.

Deckel_FP1.jpg - The dream machine of many precision machinists, so
  it is only natural that teenut would have used one.

Cyl_Grinder.jpg - It is the tall machine on the left. I don't recall
  teenut mentioning this machine, but it sure looks interesting.

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