If you love beautiful tools (if you don’t, you should) there is a remarkable web page devoted to some remarkable historic tools. I hope to see these in person someday. I hope I get to Michigan or find him on the road sometime. He’s got a pretty amazing paint job on the trailer too.
Click the ship plane to open the museum in a new window.
I really like this drill. I think I need to make one.
Thank to the Village Carpenter (http://villagecarpenter.blogspot.com/) for having a link to the museum.
Preindustrial Craftsmanship 
You need to make one and send it to me.
I wish that I could.
Wow…I love old handtools, I think I haven’t got enough of them, although I’ve probably got too many tools! That drill is a wonderful tool. Imagine a time when people took pride and the time to make implements like that. Puts our modern stuff to shame really, even if they are more “efficient”. I have been thinking for some time to make myself an old fashion tool box containing only old hand tools. I often see them in “antique” shop and think it’s a shame they don’t get used any more.
Right, I am off to look at the museum. Thanks for pointing it out.
At auctions I have had to contend with people who want to buy them for “home decorating”. Sometimes they don’t even know what they are buying.
I’ll just take one of everything………….to start with.
There are more good photos on the the Village Carpenter’s website. I love some of the router planes.