Colonial Homestead in Millersburg, Ohio, is a working shop with thousands of vintage hand tools. Dan Raber describes its purpose as supplying tools to people who make things and showing how those tools can remain useful today.

The work includes carving spoons, building Windsor chairs, repairing furniture, and cutting timber-frame joints. Hand planes leave shavings rather than a cloud of sawdust, and those shavings go on to be used as livestock bedding.

Learning happens alongside the making, with a reference library people are encouraged to use. The shop gives visitors a place to ask questions, discuss how to approach a job, and see traditional skills being put to work rather than kept only for display.