secookmd

East Boothbay, ME, US
member

I am an amateur woodworker who attended The Chippendale School in Gifford Scotland for a sabbatical in 1999-2000.
I also have started learning wooden boat building. The two disciplines complement each other.

By profession, I am an emergency physician in Boothbay Maine


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Re: Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and Woodcraft part ways

Like most subscribers, I am an amateur woodworker who also enjoys owning and using hand tools. I live near the Lie-Nielsen factory in Warren, Maine where Maine residents work. The planes are of high quality and better metals than the original Stanley or Bailey issues. I know there are cheaper tools and maufactures from other countries, obviously Woodcraft knows this as well. While I have purchased many tools from Woodcraft in the past, I will no longer because I think they undermine the LN efforts by becoming a competitor. The Walmart philosophy does not appeal to me.

Woodcraft is primarily a distributor while Lie-Nielsen actually produces something of value. His efforts have helped a resurgence of interest in hand tools, they endorse quality, and they provide a wonderful job for Mainers where an individual is paid for work but also gets immense pride from something much more tangible.

posted: 10:35 am on December 27th