A man uses a hand-held scraper (also known as a cabinet scraper or a scraper plane) to shape the hull of a toy boat from a block of wood held in a vice, in a workshop, circa 1925. Henry Miller News Picture Service/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
One of the most difficult times in my life was clearing out the tool shed after my father’s passing. Many of the items therein I recalled from when he first bought them, not usually new but from some other small used shop or a yard sale. He saw them all as treasures, and used them all. He loved woodwork. He even made a working dulcimer once.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
