YUK!

There must be a couple of thousand other ways to draw this little cartoon alter-ego of mine. His name is T Hammer. He is most often drawn with a smile, but sometimes with confusion, anger, or a deadpan couldn t care less attitude, but always appropriate for the occasion as such different expressions would likely appear on my own face.

Me? Well, my name is Tommy B.Harlon and at the time of this writing I ve been a millwright for about 50 years. The (above) little guy frequently appears in this book I ve been writing a little at the time as various tricks of the trade in the alignment facet of said craft became known by me. In the winter of 1978 I made a lot of noise with a pair of eight-pound sledgehammers (one in each hand) over a period of about an hour or two. I changed the curvature of eight 4-foot lengths of 3/8" X 18 widths of economizer baffle plates for a chemical recovery boiler in a southern Arkansas paper mill.

The unwelcome noise made some 20 or so other craftsmen annoyed to the point of being ready to hang me from the highest beam in the ceiling of that quite large maintenance shop. But as usual, I did manage to get a difficult job done; noisily yes, but correctly.

YUK!

I m here to make you notice things you might have missed!

The half-angry crew; utilizing the first and last name initials of my name (Tom Harlon),...