Found this surfing around the net. Titled as a Feng Shui workshop. Feng Shui or not, pretty amazing.
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Found this surfing around the net. Titled as a Feng Shui workshop. Feng Shui or not, pretty amazing.
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Jumpin' Jehoshaphat!
Wow! Is that Lee Valley's next catalog cover? What a collection - I'll be you could stare at that for an hour and keep seeing new stuff. Look at the size of that "compass" on the left side of the first window, or that massive "gouge" to the right of the second window. What a collection!
Nice, but I don't see any shavings on the floor. Do the tools ever get used?
Life's too short to use old sandpaper.
My thought as well. Nice display and nice collection but it doesn't look like a working set up. I'm one to talk as there are far too many planes, chisels, and saws in my tool tills, chests, and cabinets but bottom line there need be very few tools at hand. A couple or three planes, a dozen chisels at most, and a few saws. Everything else just gets in the way most of the time.
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That's not the floor it's a workbench.
Its a shame the guy ran out of space to store all his handplanes
Looks like a heck of a collection. When I see this many tools in pictures I like to think they are being used. I have an older gentleman friend that buys trailer loads of tools from Pennsylvania on a regular basis and has three buildings full to the ceiling with random goat paths running thru them. The first time he showed it to me he said, "Don't laugh". I actually could not laugh because my jaw was on the floor. Unfortunately he does not use a single one and is not interested in selling any of them. If I mention I am looking for a specific tool I usually find it on my front porch a few days later. I am very fortunate to have a good friend like him. But I still hate to see all those tools just sitting there.
I don't know how any workshop advertising itself as Feng Shui could do so without proudly displaying a dangling crystal. What is the world coming to?
It doesn't look like most of the tools are used.
Many are placed in pretty hard to reach areas--unless it's a really tiny workshop, or the owner is a really tall guy.
Perhaps I am odd in this group. But each tool needs maintenance. I try to go minimalist. But will acquire more when I need to.
Looks like a collector. Why have FIVE folding draw knives,and a great abundance of repetition in other tools?