Yesterday I stopped in at the Museum of Texas Handmade Furniture in
New Braunfels, TX.  http://www.nbheritagevillage.com/

It's a collection of buildings moved to the site and restored.  The
main house is full of handmade furniture that's pretty high quality.
It's amazes me to think that these cabinetmakers arriving from Germany
to Galveston, trekked up to the New Braunfels area and then setting up
shop for nothing.  I can't even imagine how much work that must have
been.  One book I read said that those cabinetmakers had a real
problem competing with the cheap imported furniture from Europe.  The
more things change...

One of the buildings contains tools and parts of a workshop from
cabinetmakers in the New Braunfels area.  They had lots of wooden
planes.  I saw scrub, jointers and smoothers, as well as moulding
planes, rabbet planes, panel raising planes, plow planes, lots of
frame saws and more.  They also have a scale model of how a cabinet
shop in that area was setup in the late 1800's.

Would I fly in from Ontario to go to this museum?  No.  But if you are
on I-35, it's worth taking the exit and paying $5.

Mark
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