Conserving or Restoring Vintage Hand Tools
Social Science/History | Available (Membership Required)
Have you inherited rusty, unusable hand tools that your parents or grandparents used in their workshops? Would you like to bring them back to life so that you can display and/or use them? In this session, Duane Roen will show you hand tools, some dating back to the 1800s, that he has conserved or restored. He will describe the methods that he has used to remove rust (while preserving the patina as much as possible) and to make the tools functional again. He will discuss the history and uses of some of the tools. Feel free to bring to the session a hand tool that needs conservation or restoration; Duane will offer suggestions how to make the tool whole again. Duane has been using hand tools for seven decades as a hobbyist to do carpentry, woodworking, and some mechanical work. He has been conserving and restoring hand tools for more than a decade.
Duane Roen
Roen, Duane - has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He also is founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU.