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Sauer decided to learn to build furniture and to do it mostly with hand tools, which he thought would be much less expensive than power tools. He quickly mastered the Bailey-style bench planes and started wondering where he could get a bit more performance in the plane department. He asked around until he had a fateful conversation with Doug Evans, an Ontario tool dealer (and now principal at Shepherd Tool Co.). Sauer: "Where do I go from here?" Evans sold an unhandled Spiers coffin smoothing plane to Sauer, and then it was only a matter of time before Sauer & Steiner Toolworks would be born and Sauer would say farewell to his job as an art director and become a full-time – and quite successful ¬– custom toolmaker. And all before he turned 35.
Confession: Infill jointers aren't my favorite tools. I generally think they're too bulky and heavy to use for more than a few minutes. However, I was using this one for a couple hours before I realized it was a jointer plane and not a panel plane – that's quite a compliment.
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