New Hampshire?

You mean the outskirts of old tool Mecca?

Just flip over some rocks - you'll find old tools lying about.

But seriously, when I used to be "on the road" all the time, I found 
that the New England area harbored the best old tool hunting grounds. 
Pretty much every little junque shoppe, flee market and anteek maul that 
I stopped in along the way would have some old tools to look at, and the 
pricing almost always was much cheaper than you'd find for similar items 
in, say - Indiana. Or worse - Texas.

I'm sure some NH-area Galoots will give you some more specific 
suggestions for places to stop in, but I always would just pull in to 
any place that looked likely - I'd look for old, run-down looking 
buildings advertising "second-hand store" or "antiques" or whatever. I 
mostly would avoid the big, shiny, new, brightly-painted "Antique Mall 
with 150 dealers" - although even there, you sometimes find something. I 
usually would pass those up, though, in favor of the old, dusty, 
faded-paint, dirty-windowed, jam-packed little country store that's been 
there since the early 1800's with the same guy behind the counter and 
the aisles you could barely walk sideways down without tripping over the 
barrels of rusty junk. That's where you find yourself the old Sargent 
VBM fore plane for $14 and the nice old Disston back saw for $4.

- Bill T.

On 6/19/2012 8:53 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
> GGs;
>
> Tomorrow I'm off to visit family in southern New Hampshire.  From there
> I'll visit  more family in the Detroit area via southern Ontario (Niagara
> Falls to Windsor), then home to Indiana.  I'll be driving my own truck, so
> I can take any side trips I like and haul whatever I find home.  I'm mostly
> in tool deaccession mode, so emphasis is on family time, but there's bound
> to be something out there that I need.
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
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