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Visited an old shop downtown and saw a hand plane from the 40s still in use
Stopped by Anderson's Millwork last week to pick up some plywood. The old guy running the place was using a Stanley No. 5 he said his dad bought in 1947. It had this deep patina on the sole and the wood handle was worn smooth as glass. He let me run it over a test board and it still took a perfect shaving. Makes me wonder how many of the fancy Lie-Nielsens I've bought will still be working 80 years from now. Anybody else got an old tool that just refuses to die?
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abby_martin284d ago
That old Stanley's probably outlast my marriage and my truck combined.
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irisross4d ago
The 87 year old one my dad left me finally made me see it differently. I used to think tools were just tools, but that thing has outlasted three generations of my family.
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