Hi Ruth,

I think the Woodwright you are referring to is Roy Underhill. Last time I 
saw him was in New Orleans at the IPTW (International Preservation Trades 
Workshop) in Holy Cross. He's a PTN (Preservation Trades Network) member now 
and hangs out with a lot of us at the annual conferences. You can see some 
pictures of him at the PTN websie www.PTN.org.

When it comes time to do something with gggf's tools you should try to make 
sure they end up in the hands of a traditional woodworker. Many of us still 
use them and prefer the old ones to the new ones.

Congratulations on your find!

Rudy

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From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:12 PM
Subject: [BP] Taking apart old buildings


> You fellas would have had a ball taking apart our old garage, too bad you
> were too far away.  Happily we found a man to take it down and he is going
> to rebuild it in another place.  One jerk wanted to take it down and pile
> the lumber for US to burn and charge us $1500.00.  This man took it down
> for the having of it.  It was clearly built of used materials from several
> different eras and probably different sources.  I'm quite sure that part 
> of
> it was the original barn as it had whitewash on the back wall.  The beams
> upstairs were put together with those wooden pegs instead of nails.
>
> The BIG find though, for me, was my gggrandfather's wooden chest full of
> his woodworking tools, along with all the other woodworking tools in the
> old chest of drawers that he probably built himself, AND his thick plank
> workbench.  I still have those things.  Ruth
>
> PS:  Anyone know what happened to my favorite woodworker, '"The
> Woodwright," who used to be on PBS on Sunday morning?

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