Colonial Homestead

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