>> Actually, a reenactor would want their tool to look clean and new.
>> A period tool, when used "in period" is a new tool :-)
>>

Would a cabinetmaker not possibly have his grandfather's tools, and 
therefore be using a 1780's tool in a an 1820's re-enactment?

Ed Minch

I have a type 2 #3 (smallish smoother, Jeff) that has a used up 
sweetheart blade in it.  This means that the tools was 50 years old 
when it got it last blade, and then that was used up!