Handplane Notes #2: M a n i f e s t o
I prefer to use the term “Taking care” instead “Restoring” when dealing with old tools. I don’t know, but I don’t agree with the last concept, at least at the way I understand it. Seems to me Restoration pretends to bring back old things to the same condition when they just were leaving the factory or when the building was just being completed by its builders. If there is something I deeply appreciate on old things (Old tools in my case), it’s the imprint of time, that natural aging when things befall in a long period of time. The other day I was watching a PBS program, there was a man with an interesting old car, one of those cars that have receive ...
