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Very nice, thanks.
In the early 1900’s, my grandparents bought some rural land and hired out a carpenter to build the house. The man lived in a tent for over a year while he did all the work, from excavating with a horse drawn implement, to laying the foundation, all aspects of building the house, including making the kitchen cabinets on site. No doubt the carpenter had a similar collection of tools.
I watched this Friday night and drooled all over my remote….made me want to get out and build something.
That is an amazing set. I have a lot of similar tools that my grampa left me that came from his dad. Nothing close to an assortment like that, though.
VERY Nice. 21 minutes of tool porn. $3,500 seems like a good price for so much history.
It was beautiful and sad- all those fine tools sitting idle for a century and a half, but man were they exquisite.
Any of you billionaire benefactors out there in the rich states wants to see them put back to use, I know a guy in NH who’d make that old carpenter proud.
Your video reminded me of an estate sale I went to around 1985 in Indiana. Farmer died at a ripe old age. He had a huge barn filled with nothing but machinery (most of it quite old) and tools, tools, and more tools. So many gorgeous wooden tools. No one in his family wanted any of it. A lifetime of acquisitions, gone, poof, sold for mere pennies on the dollar of their true worth. It was beautiful and sad- ….
I bought an old gumball machine and a water-pail bucket full of old marbles, many from the Depression era according to one of the farmer’s kids — really, for my two boys — many folks have no idea how beautiful an old quality marble can be. IIRC, I paid about $20 total for both items.
I had a more extensive collection of hand tools, which I used both professionally and personally, but now that I no longer use them, I sold most to online collectors because I knew of no one that cared to learn how to use them nor cared about there preservation. I still have a few that I use when piddling around my shop on small projects. There is no sound sweeter or sight than a finely tuned plane slicing through some beautifully grained wood.
BTW, if you like watching people build with hand tools, you might like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYrJ2Fbe7pBjEZvkFzi3A
My grandfather had an extensive collection of hand tools. Although I was the only one who really took an interest in such things, and worked with him in building or repairing many things, the tools went to an uncle upon his death. I did receive some hand saws at the time. And when my uncle died I did end up receiving some old planes and carving tools.
Then why aren’t there any Eskimo Einsteins?
That’s a fantastic answer (and below also). I think you nailed it.
If I actually gave my question some thought — instead of blindly typing my nocturnal stream of consciousness — I MIGHT have come up with the same reasoning.
Eskimos, Inuits, Laps and other far northern people were extremely creative when you consider their survival skills and solutions. Consider the kayak, an elegant boat made of skin, bone and driftwood that can be paddled onto the open sea for hunting and fishing and the paddler can roll it over through 360 degrees and carry on unscathed. There is genius everywhere.
Talk about inciting an erection!!!