That last post certainly makes me a whole lot happier, and thank you.

Like it or not, museums and collecting are about material wealth, and
one person's collection is another's hoard. The nice thing about working
at the MacLachlan Woodworking Museum is that it was about tools -
creating material wealth. Hard to find fault with that. The world could
always use more. And the more that can be done to learn about the tools,
the better.

Maybe enough tools will get packed away by collectors and museums to
drive some of the prices up to the point of what they'd actually cost
new. Know what will happen then? Someone will build more. Personally,
given the choice of anything made by Spiers or Norris, or a brand new
Carl Holtey, I'd take one of Carl's planes.

Regards,

Matt Turner