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The Aberfoyle Antique Market – Six Hours After Market Opening

Aug 26, 2021 | Olde Tools

For years I’ve set challenges for myself when travelling through markets and antique malls. Back in the early days, I’d go on a...

Aug 19, 2021 | Aberfoyle

Those that know me also know that I have a pretty talented brother and sister-in-law. I lived in a house where the old Morris...

Jul 27, 2021 | Olde Tools

When I posted that Rosewood Wallace (Montreal) Plow plane a couple of weeks back, I mentioned that there was another Wallace...

Jul 14, 2021 | Olde Tools

The time required to do something right... This morning I picked up the checkerboard mitre-jack that sits in the foreground on...

Jul 14, 2021 | Olde Tools

My friend Ted Dawson let me be the custodian of this plane for a while... Part of the days “horse trading” involved me providing...

Jul 14, 2021 | Olde Tools

Canadians made some good things... Handled Brazilian Rosewood Plow plane with Turkish Boxwood screw-arms and nuts. Alexander...