Reply To: Veritas Skewed Rabbet Plane
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Sometimes necessity drives a person to do undesirable things but it’s common practice for the widow to sell her husband’s tools. This is why I am making sure that this doesn’t happen to my tools, it took me a long time and literally thousands of dollars to accumulate them and how many more am I going get and make. It would be a tragedy if they ended up on display on some tool collectors shelf or worse scrapped for metal. No,no not this boy I want someone in my family to use them either for hobby or to earn a living without the need to go to any expense in the acquisition of tools. Someone down the lineage will be born to workwood and hopefully work it by hand as I have no machinery to offer other than my bandsaw and scrollsaw.
My two greatest assets which is all my wealth I have to offer is my knowledge and tools, skill they have to get on their own but if I’m not around to pass this knowledge on I have journals I keep which they can refer to and learn from.
I genuinely feel obliged, incumbent upon me to pass this knowledge on in one form or another no matter how little or great it is because one day on that inevitable day when I stand before our Creator and He asks me what did you do with the knowledge I have given you I want to answer I have used it to earn an honest living, I have taught and still am teaching, I have passed it on.
To me that is true success, money is only transient but knowledge lives forever.