The large auction of vintage tools was a bust!

[Ray Selinger]

Ranchers and farmers weren't rich, but they do use tools, they just don't look after them. I'm looking at a very rusty Record #52 1/2 vise right now.

[Rob Luter]

Ranchers and farmers weren't rich, but they do use tools, they just don't look after them. I'm looking at a very rusty Record #52 1/2 vise right now.

It's just that they used a different kind of tool than I like. In my neck of the woods you find some woodworking tools suitable for furniture making, but many more are timber framing tools for making barns. Lots of big wooden planes for coarse work, big slicks, T-Handle Augers for boring peg holes, bow saws for cutting tenons, and large wooden mauls for beating together joints. We also see lots of meat saws. When I go farther East or North towards historical manufacturing centers, I find the pickings for good neanderthal tools are much better.