I had enrolled in a course at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building to learn how to build Rich Kolin's pretty little Heidi Skiff.The syllabus specified a list of tools I would need to bring with me,including a few planes,chisels,sharpening gear,and so on.I had most of the tools but nothing in which to carry them. Years earlier,I had worked in a boatyard and on the docks.I remembered that some of the guys carried a traditional carpenter's box-you know the kind-knocked together out of pine,with a big wooden dowel that serves as an immovable handle.I never really cared for those because the handle always seemed to be in the way and,inevitably,what you needed was down at the bottom,where you had to dig for it.
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