A Trip to Maine

That would be a wonderful experience for most of us. I can well understand that this would be one of the high points of the trip. It is wonderful that your wife went along too. Mine would be bored stiff. She would only get excited if it was a Coach or Coldwater Creek outlet.

Thanks for the post. I am sure that you enjoyed this. I know I would

By the way you didn’t ask for any samples did you? :)

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Great story about your wifes trip and a nice gift, and what a wonderful thing she did for her father. My brother and I did something similar for our mother, she was losing her eyesight to macular degeneration and we took her on a color tour to Northern Michigan before her sight was lost. She never forgot it. Can’t wait for the review. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Hey Scott, I was stuck at home. She did this all on her own. That even makes it more special.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Praise your wife for the trip she took with her father.

You are doubly blessed with a wife like that and a wealthy one also to buy you such a superb gift.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

The Lie-Nielsen store/factory is a great place to go. They will treat you like you’re the only customer in the world. Who ever comes out to show you around will fill you with so much information. They have fee based classes on a schedule, but if you ask the right questions while you’re there, you get most of the class for free. I lived in Maine for ten years and I didn’t go into the store until right before I moved back to Texas. Good thing, because I’d probably have a shop full of their planes, etc. Which really wouldn’t be a bad thing. Thanks for the post, Steve, and congrats on the new plane. That’s a nice one.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

Living a few miles below the factory and making a trip up route 1 once a month to visit my mother-in-law my car now tries to pull into Lie-Nielsen’s all by itself. It turns right and my wife pushes the wheel left.

I took a class there once and had the low angle smoothing plane for a while. I mentioned to Tom that after using it I could see no reason to own another plane since that one did so much. He said “I agree, but don’t tell anyone” so I’m not going to tell anyone. He didn’t mention that I could not type it. :))

Just a side note to anyone making that trip there are some interesting things in that area for woodworkers. Without going into detail you will find Liberty Tool (tons of old tools), Center For Furniture Craftsmen (Rockport Maine), and a couple of shipbuilding museums. The one in Bath and Searsport are very interesting to a woodworker. Searsport also has an annex of Liberty Tool.

Liberty also has the Davistown museum

Last but not least in that area is the Maine State Prison Store in Thomaston with some pretty amazing woodwork.

Check this carving that was at the store (sold now). It’s all wood carving of David Mann who used to do drawings for motorcycle magazine. When this guy went to prison the word was he didn’t know he could carve. He has since done another that you can probably find on the page. This one of Mann had reflections in the rear view mirror and tattoo’s on the driver’s arm. It took my breath away.

Here it is Neptune's Ride which was taken from a David Mann piece of artwork.

Enjoy!

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Very cool and a very lucky guy…thanks for the tour and thank your wife for us too.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Great inside view! Thanks.

That’s one heck of a wife you got there.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

I vacation in Downeast ME every summer and I keep telling my wife that we are going to stop by the factory this year. How cool that your wife thought to stop there on her own. I think I will print out this page and leave it laying around the house for my wife to read. BrianM thanks for the tour guide tips. I’ll check some of this out this August.

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What a serendipitous turn!

-- North Texas

very cool…great story!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...SING WITH ME: "Sum...sum...sum...summ...summ...summ...summertime..."

Very cool. I ‘ll be studying those pictures for a while.

Thanks for the post

-- Kip Northern Illinois ( If you don't know where your goin any road will take you there) George Harrison

Great story and your wife a keeper in my book…Blkcherry