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A photograph of old-style screw tools on a wooden display. The tools are superglued to a wooden slab behind them, which is hanging on the white wall behind it. This display is in the corner of two white walls.
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Yesterday’s Tools Refitted for Tomorrow’s Work 1

Michael Dowling

Restoring any quality-made item for continued use is often a good enough reason for me. For these items, the family connection made the project even more fulfilling; A home workshop gives you space to fix existing problems and create new things. Having the pandemic’s gift of time in isolation allowed me to complete several ideas I had been thinking about for several years.