PATINA January 14, 2024 Meeting Featuring Lee Richmond

The next in-person CLUB meeting in McLean VA, will be SUNDAY JANUARY 14. We will use the upper lot only for tailgating. Please park in the lower lot if you are not planning to set up a table. Start time: 8:30 for tailgating, with a mini-auction to take place approximately 11am, immediately followed by the guest presentation.

Our January 14 program will be about infill planes. We are very pleased to have Lee Richmond as our featured speaker. Lee is past VP of PATINA and was the expert tool appraiser for Antiques Road show. Lee has been collecting and dealing in antique tools for nearly 40 years. For the last 27 years, he has operated TheBestThings.com, an Internet based business focused on offering a carefully curated selection of tools and other products.
Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Don Wing of the Mechanick’s Workbench, Lee has always focused on quality, not quantity, offering the best examples of tools that he can find. Infill planes have always been a particular specialty. The talk will offer a description of the various forms of these planes, their history, and what to look for in buying them, including a forthright discussion of fakes and frauds in the tool world. We welcome attendees to bring infill planes from their collection.

Lee Richmond