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233702 John Leyden <leydenjl@g...> 2012‑10‑11 Re: old tool wiki
As Aristotle famously wrote a couple of thousand years ago, "There's
nothing new under the sun."

That truth has never stopped those who followed from talking and
learning, then forgetting, and talking and learning all over again.

I suppose The Old Tools List will be no different and I don't mind one
bit, wiki or no wiki.

To my mind the essential difference between a wiki and the current
archive search function is that some one or more people will have in
essence compiled an encyclopedia, replete with index, from the content
of all those past discussions. That's nice, but.... wouldn't you rather
be in your workshop building something tangible with wood or metal?

We now return to our regular programming.

Old Tools content: today I found a Stanley 750 3/4-inch socket chisel
quite literally laying on a Manhattan sidewalk. No handle, no rust, and
just the business end. It had once even been lapped and hollow ground.
With a little TLC this gem will be back in working condition just in
time for Galootaclaus.

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