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A photograph of a hand-saw display in a home workshop. The hand saws are hanging from a wooden pole in-between a white panel and the side of a white one-compartment cabinet. Below the display are four smaller cabinets with many small plastic drawers containing nails and other small items of various shapes and sizes.
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Yesterday’s Tools Refitted for Tomorrow’s Work 3

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.