Tom Ribbecke inspects one of Rick's antique hand tools:
Check out this bronze baby:
This is the heaviest old smoothing plane I've ever held!
Rick's grandfather had been a professional woodworker, and Rick is lucky enough to have some of his old tools, including the planes above, and a nice assortment of specialized chisels:
Those old chisels were the inspiration for Rick to design a few of his own:
He's had them made by a Vermont toolmaker, and they are extra cool!
Another project in progress:
It's a CD display shelving unit made from a guitar body "that didn't work out."
While the rest of the board was hanging around the kitchen munching goodies, Dan Erlewine stayed in the living room with a couple of Running Dogs:
In Dan's hands, this fingerstyle cutaway proved to be a fine blues machine.
About 50 yards from Rick's front door, the gang congregated in his new shop:
Later, the shop will have a door. And walls, and all that other stuff!