Introducing myself

[karhulaa]

Hi everyone!

I have studied wood working for some time now. My major in the university is building restoration which is a ridiculously wide field to go through in 4 years. I am now finishing my last semester and hopefully getting good papers by the end of May. Plans after that? Restoring and woodworking, and making the world a better place.

My other hobbies are running, composing and historical studies.

It's nice to connect with like minded people. Have a great weekend!

-Lasse

[admin]

Welcome to the forum Lasse! Glad to have you here. If you have any questions, let me know.

TJ.

[larryh86gt]

Hi Lasse - welcome to the forum.
Larry

[Joe Lyddon]

Hey Lasse!

Thank you for joining up...

Welcome Aboard!

[TDHofstetter]

Good to meet you, Lasse!

By any chance... is that a Finnish name? It looks Finnish.

[larryh86gt]

Feb 6, 2010 15:19:00 GMT -6 TDHofstetter said:

Good to meet you, Lasse!

By any chance... is that a Finnish name? It looks Finnish.

Here we go again. What's better urethane, lacquer?

[Doug B]

Welcome to WoW Lasse!

[TDHofstetter]

Feb 6, 2010 15:22:57 GMT -6 larryh86gt said:

Feb 6, 2010 15:19:00 GMT -6 TDHofstetter said:

Good to meet you, Lasse!

By any chance... is that a Finnish name? It looks Finnish.

Here we go again. What's better urethane, lacquer?

[Leo Voisine]

WELCOME Lassee,

This is a great group here

[karhulaa]

Wow, thank you for the warm welcome.

TDHofstetter: You are correct with your guess, I am Finnish alright.

[tw]

Tervetuloa forummille.


Hope I spelled it rigt I cannot write finnish though I can speak it.

[jb34]

My father side is finnish. So I am half finnish and half noweigian (I am sure I spelled that wrong). so my previous generation never had kind things to saw about swedish people or russians. I do not really know any finnish but sure heard my grandmother swear at my dad and uncle a lot in finnish. Awesome to see someone from the homeland on here. Welcome.

[sawduster]

Alright, another History nut!!! We got a fella in Canada who loves studying about the early Roman Empire, I prefer the latter period as the Republic was tumbling down. But I also read a lot about other times in Europe up into the early 19^th Century.

[jb34]

You ever wanna read a good story about ww2 and see the ultimate bad ash look up Simo Hayha. The russians called him "the white death". Just an average finnish guy who grabbed his rifle and picked off between 500-1000 russians when they invaded finland in the 40s. Yeah I said 1000. I know how legend goes. But its over 500 confirmed with his rifle and 700 total confirmed and that is impressive enough. Especially since he never used a scope. The guy was about 5 foot tall.

Sorry for the language in this but I just found a couple links quickly.
www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html

www.mosinnagant.net/finland/simohayha.asp

[tw]

Well..... there were many many others that would be only half a step behing Simo Häyhä in the line of heroes......or....well.... they shouldn't be called heroes really because they do not like the word themselves.
When talking to the war veterans they just say:
"We went through hell on that job.....but we got it done"

The winter war was total warfare in a way that is hard to imagine theese days. Every man knew that if we loose we will all be sent to the death camps in Siberia. Every yard of land lost meant that some soldiers lost their homes or part of their farmland. There were shortages of everything. The standard uniform consisted of civilian woollen clothes and a uniform belt. Those who owned good skis brought them with them to the front. Ammunition was rationed. Much of the weapons were leftovers from world war 1.

Those Mosin-Nagant riffles were taken from the Russians in 1918. Some of the men who did that used old home made flintlock riffles until they could lay their hands on a Mosin-Nagant.