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Glenn Livingston, 54, took a woodworking class and was so inspired by the traditional hardware that he started his own company: Woodjoy Tools of Swansea, Mass. The one-man operation sells to locations as far-flung as Japan and Australia and develops about three new tools each year, the most recent being the 12-inch Spokeshave No. 85. (Woodworkers use spoke-shaves to shape curved-wood furniture.) The No. 85, made of Brazilian cherry wood and cryogenically treated steel, is an upgraded version of a Stanley tool of the same name, which the corporation stopped making in 1935.
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