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Friends: 

Last week, I had the privilege of hosting two fine fellows in my shop for a private class in hand plane restoration. We took a vintage Stanley and a vintage Record and took them from flea market find to working tool. It was a lot of fun. 

In preparation for this class, I wrote up a detailed handout on how to look for, evaluate, and restore vintage planes. I thought some of you might like to have it for your own tool-hunting adventures. I've attached it below as a .docx file (because Word is being a pain and won't save it as a .pdf).

Hope you find it useful!

--Rex

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Benjamin Komenda

Hi Rex, tanks for the handout. just install Libreoffice. It can open your docx file and save it as pdf. Otherwise all people on mobile devices cant view it without jumping through burning hoops and installing 3.party apps. Libre Office (the stable 5.xx version not the 6.xx "beta") is production ready. My wife writes her 300+ page phd-thesis with it.

Benjamin Komenda

the "frugal computer guy" offers in depth tutorials on every aspect of libre office. it helped me a lot to setup my invoicing/customer database. he is kind of the rex krueger of free software ;)

Rex Krueger

Your wife is getting a PhD? I'm so sorry. What's the subject? I'll check out libre, stat.

Rex Krueger

Well, then we must be handsome...and loud.

Steve Crane

Installing LibreOffice is great if you do a lot of writing but don't forget about Google Docs; nothing to install and it should have no problem opening a docx file and downloading as PDF is built in.

Rex Krueger

Whew. Philosophy PhD. That's a tough one. I wish her the best. And that tote template is the one I use. It's VERY good.