Sanders- Pump Drum Hand Disk Belt Hand Tools- Various Drills- Drill Press Portable Bits Shaping- Shaper- Router- Saws- Band Table John's Tool fund It was indeed a small shop, and crowded. There was little chance to organize the work areas...Still some surprisingly complicated pieces of furniture were made in meager surrounding like this. One man admitted that when he had a board longer than eight feet, he had to carry it out into the yard to turn it around! Yet the same board turned up finally as part of a dovetailed hope chest for one of his marriageable daughters. Aldren Watson . . . . . . Country Furniture   There were a few tools in a corner of the cellar; a vise, files, a hammer, chisels, etc. that father had brought from Scotland, but no saw excepting a coarse crooked one that was unfit for sawing dry hickory or oak. So I made a fine-tooth saw suitable for my work out of a strip of steel that had formed part of an old-fashioned corset, that cut the hardest wood smoothly. I also made my own bradawls, punches, and a pair of compasses, out of wire and old files. John Muir . . . The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

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