Thoughts from visiting Colonial Homestead:
- Dan Raber is very nice and knowledgeable
- He steered me away from a Stanley adjustable throat low angle block plane and towards a Millers Falls #28
- He knew of Emmet van Dreische, had his books in the store, and was interested in Spoonesaurus
- I want to build one of the low benches they have. Perhaps two sets of legs.
- The curved axe handles with only one sharpened side were interesting. Look them up in the Early American Hand Tools book.
- Carried Jason Lonon tools
- Anvils are expensive! $750 for the size Dad has.
- I love that they put together sets of tools and small benches for schools and use the sloyd method.
- They have plans for better shavehorses than the one I made and they scale down to kid size
