Allow me to introduce myself.
I am by profession a librarian, with no particular specialty (having tried a
bit of everything.
My introduction to hand tools dates from a college course in woodworking
taught by a gentleman who began the class by making everybody prepare a rough
board with a hand plane. I've been sold ever since. Unfortunately it has only
been recently that I have had the space to begin seriously collecting and
using hand tools. Equally unfortunate is that I am in Tucson Arizona where
such tools are both hard to locate and way over-priced.
I have hopes though, as I am planning on relocating to the Mid-Atlantic area.
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