ATTIC Antique Tools and Trades In Connecticut

BTCA Blow Torch Collectors Association

Connecticut Antique Machinery Association

Early American Industries Association

The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub (Winchester, E.C. Simmons Keen Kutter, Shapleigh Diamond Edge)

ICCC International Coleman Collectors Club

Mid-West Tool Collectors Association

Missouri Valley Wrench Club

North American Sundial Society

Ohio Tool Collectors Association

The Oughtred Society (Slide rules and other calculating instruments)

Pacific Northwest Tool Collectors

PAST Tool Collectors (formerly Preserving Arts and Skills of the Trades)

PATINA The Potomac Antique Tools and Industries Association

PITCA Pressing Iron and Trivet Collectors of America

Richmond Antique Tool Society (Virginia)

Rocky Mountain Tool Collectors

Society for Industrial Archaeology

The Society for the Preservation and Study of American Wooden Planes (website has not been updated in over 20 years)

Southwest Tool Collectors Association

Timber Framer's Guild

WNYATCA Western New York Antique Tool Collectors Association

 

International

Ambacht Gereedschap (Netherlands)

Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia

ISMCS International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society

Measure and Weight, Association for Metrology (Maß und Gewicht, Verein für Metrologie e.V. - Germany)

The New Zealand Vintage Tool Collectors Club

The Old Lawnmower Club

The Tool Group of Canada

The Tools and Trades History Society (UK)

The Traditional Tools Group (Australia)

 

TOOL AUCTIONS

Brown Tool Auctions (The Fine Tool Journal LLC)

Great Planes Trading Company

Martin J. Donnelly Auctions

David Stanley (England)

Antique Tool Auctions (formerly Tony Murland Antique Tools)

  

TOOL PUBLICATIONS

Periodicals

The Tool Shed (comes with membership in CRAFTS)

The Chronicle and Shavings (come with membership in EAIA)

The Gristmill (comes with membership in Mid-West Tool Collectors Association)

The Fine Tool Journal (by subscription)

Mortise and Tenon Magazine (published twice a year in Maine)

Quercus Magazine "for anyone working wood by hand" (published six times a year in Oxford, England by Nick Gibbs)

 

Books

Astragal Press (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield)

Colonial Williamsburg

Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications

Linden Publishing (The Woodworker's Library)

Lost Art Press

Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools

Rude Mechanicals Press

The Taunton Press

Toolemera Books (Gary Roberts)

The Wrenching News Book Store

 

MUSEUMS

In New Jersey:

Canal Society of New Jersey (Morristown, NJ)

East Jersey Old Town Village (Piscataway, NJ)

Fisher & Norris Anvil Museum (Adelphia, NJ)

Historic Cold Spring Village (Cape May, NJ)

The Historic Village at Allaire (Farmingdale, NJ)

Howell Living History Farm (Lambertville, NJ)

Jersey Shore Folklife Center and Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen's Museum (Tuckerton, NJ)

Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (Madison, NJ)

Millbrook Village and Millbrook Village Society (Delaware Water Gap, NJ)

Ralston Cider Mill (Mendham, NJ)

The Red Mill Museum Village (Clinton, NJ)

Roebling Museum (Roebling, NJ)

Space Farms Zoo & Museum incl. antique/primitive tool barn and blacksmith shop (Sussex, NJ)

Speedwell Iron Works (Morristown, NJ)

Sterling Hill Mining Museum (Ogdensburg, NJ)

The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms (Morris Plains, NJ)

Thomas Edison National Historic Park (West Orange, NJ)

Waterloo Village (Stanhope, NJ)

Elsewhere:

American Precision Museum (Windsor, VT)

Arnold Zoloft Tool Museum (South Hero, VT)

Canadian Museum of Making (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Carroll County Farm Museum (Westminster, MD)

Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY)

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA)

Coopers' Tool Museum (private) Sussex, UK

Davistown Museum (Liberty, ME)

Eric Sloane Museum & Kent Iron Furnace (Kent, CT)

The Farmers' Museum (Cooperstown, NY) includes tools from the collection of William B. Sprague, a founder of the Early American Industries Association

Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center (Chattahoochee National Forest, Mountain City, GA)

Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI)

Historic Deerfield (Deerfield, MA)

Historic Eastfield Village (East Nassau, NY)

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (Elverson, PA)

Kelham Island Museum with the Hawley Gallery featuring the Ken Hawley collection of Sheffield tools, cutlery and silversmithing industry history (Shefflied, UK)

Living History Farms (Urbandale, IL)

Maine Forest & Logging Museum (Bradley, ME)

Mercer Museum (Doylestown, PA)

Metal Museum (Memphis, TN)

Mifflinburg Buggy Museum (Mifflinburg, PA)

Museum of Old Techniques (Museum voor de Oudere Technieken in Belgium)

Museum of Our Industrial Heritage (Greenfield, MA)

Mystic Seaport (Mystic, CT)

National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) Museum and Library & Research Center (Columbia, PA)

New Britain Industrial Museum (New Britain, CT)

Old Bedford Museum (Bedford, PA)

Old Colony History Museum (Taunton, MA)

Old Schwamb Mill (Arlington, MA)

Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, MA)

Pennsylvania Lumber Museum (Ulysses, PA)

Railroad Museum of New England (Thomaston, CT)

Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association (Kinzers, PA)

Shelburne Museum (Shelburne, VT)

John Sindelar's Tool Museum (Edwardsburg, MI) - Private

Smithsonian (Washington, D.C. and New York, NY)

Tool Museum at Troyes, France

The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum (Carlsbad, CA)

Bahr's Mill (website is not accessible)

 

INTERESTING SITES 

Antique and Vintage Piano Tools (Martin Shepherd Piano Service)

AnvilFire.com

aPlaneLife.us

E.C. Atkins Saws and Tools

TheAxeHole.com

Backsaw.net

BladeForums.com - "The leading edge of knife discussion"

Brace Whisperer (Stan Morgan) "Braces, bits and other boring tools"

Comparison Tests of Plane Blades by Steve Elliott

Disstonian Institute

The Directory of American Tool and Machinery Patents (DATAMP)

Dreams of Wood and Steel - "An exploration of late 19th Century life, tools and firearms"

Electronic Neanderthal - One of the earliest sources of information about tools. Still useful, but is out of date.

Galootopia

Hand and Machine Tools in the Collection of The Science Museum Group (UK)

Handplane Central

Hans Brunner Tools

Henry Cheney Hammer Company - History of the company with timeline and list of products

The Infill Planes Showcase

Phil Jaeger - Historical Presentations

Lee Valley Antique Tool Collection

Medical Antiques The Arbittier Museum of Medical History

Middletown Connecticut Tool Makers

Miller's Patent Plow Plane

Millers Falls Home Page (oldtoolheaven.com)

Museum of Woodworking Tools

National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association

Norris Planes

Ohio Tool Company Type Study (site is under construction as of Nov. 2021)

Oldandinteresting.com (antique domestic & housekeeping equipment)

Patrick's Blood & Gore and The Revised Stanley B&G - Bench Planes

The Plane Dealer (Mark Nickel)

Plumb Bob Collectors

Positive Rake (blog by Joe Federici of Second Chance Saw Works on eBay; not updated since April 2018 but there's much to read about hand saws in the archive)

Record Hand Planes by David Lynch

Record Planes

Rhode Island Toolmakers

Rich Arnold Vintage Tools gallery of early English wooden planes

The Sargent Planes Page

The Saw Set Collector's Resource

Scales & Weights collection of historical scales and weights from the past 3000 years

Scientific American 1845-1909

Simonds Saw and Tool History

The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM)

Spiral Screwdriver Patents

Surveyors Historical Society

Trinders' Fine Tools (including guides to Norris and Mathieson planes)

Trowel and Masonry Tool Collector Resource

Vaughan & Bushnell Planes

Vintage Machinery (including classified ads for machines)

Virtual Museum of Surveying

Woodworking History Narratives of Woodworking Epochs in America and Britain

Working by Hand blog

The Wrenching News

WS Tools Birmingham (UK)

Online resource for historic preservation (PreservationDirectory.com)

State of New Jersey Homepage

United States Patent Office and a link to their search tool-Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases

 

ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE TOOL SELLERS

Antique-Used-Tools (Bob Kaune, Port Angeles, WA)

Jim Bode Tools (Jim Bode, Elizaville, NY)

BooksAndTools (Ron Radice)

Bristol Design Tool Shop (Bristol, UK)

Carréducker (London, UK) shoe making tools: vintage and modern

Dowd's Vintage and Antique Tools (Garland, TX)

Falcon-Wood (Peter and Annette H., SW Massachusetts)

G and M Tools (West Sussex, UK)

Georgesbasement (George Langford, Berwyn, PA)

Get a Grip and More (Dan Rossi, Washington, NJ)

Great Adirondack Tool Co. (Walt & Pete Lane, Johnstown, NY)

Heritage Tool Co. (Yakima, WA)

Hyperkitten Tool Company (Joshua Clark, Oxford, CT)

Inchmartine Tool Bazaar (Perth, Scotland)

Iron Bridge Tools (Shelburne Falls, MA)

Bruce Johnson Vintage Leather Tools 

Jonesport Wood Company, proprieters of two stores and Davistown Museum (above):

Liberty Tool Company (Liberty, ME)

Hulls Cove Tool Barn (Bar Harbor, ME)

Captain Tinkham's Emporium (Searsport, ME) PERMANENTLY CLOSED

Laurel Leaf Farm (Princeton, WI)

LeToolman (Verner, Ontario, Canada)

NH Plane Parts and The Vintage Tool Shoppe (Eric Robinson, Fremont, NH)

Old Tools Ltd (East Sussex, UK)

ReToolCo.com (online marketplace with multiple sellers)

Rose Antique Tools (Donna Allen, Gravette, AK)

Sydnas Sloot (Sandy Moss, SE Massachusetts)

TakeADip Vintage Tools (Bob Garay, Lake Hopatcong, NJ)

Tesseract Early Scientific Instruments (David & Yola Coffeen, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)

Timeless Tools & Treasures (Jane Butler, Antrim, NH)

TimeTestedTools (Don Wilwol)

The Tool Exchange (Australia)

The Tool Store at the Woodwright's School (Ed Lebetkin, Pitssboro, NC)

Tooltique (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)

Union Hill Antique Tools (Steve Johnson, Seattle, WA)

Used Tools Plus (Charlie's 2nd Hand Store, Denver, CO)

Vintage Resurrection (Las Vegas, NV)

VintageSaws (Broadview Heights, OH)

Vintage Tools (J.D. Isaacs, Richland, WA)

Vintage Tool Shop (Melbourne, Australia)

The Vintage Tool Shop (Stalbridge, Dorset, UK)

Vintage Vials (Stephen Sedor, Mechanicsburg, PA)

Whitney House Tool Shop (Linda Mariconda, The Lafayette Mill Antique Center, Lafayette, NJ)

YesteryearsTools (Tom Lamond, Lynbrook, NY)

Jon Zimmer Antique Tools (Portland, OR)

 

MODERN TOOL MAKERS and RETAILERS

(more to come)

Bad Axe Toolworks (Mark Harrell, Superior, WI)

Barr Specialty Tools (Barr Quarton)

Benchcrafted

M.S. Bickford Reproduction 18th Century Moulding Planes (Haddam Neck, CT)

Elia Bizzarri Chairmaking tools and supplies (Hillsborough, NC)

Blackburn Tools (Isaac Smith)

Blue Spruce Toolworks (Strongsville, OH)

Brant & Cochran Axes (South Portland, ME)

Bridge City Tool Works (Montclair, CA)

Cliff Carroll Forge & Tool (Amarillo, TX)

Bill Carter Woodworking Planemaker (Leicester, UK)

Centaur Forge (Burlington, WI) retailer of farrier and blacksmith supplies

Classic Hand Tools (Suffolk, UK) retailer

Crown Planes (James S. White, South Portland, ME) Etsy store

Henry Eckert Toolworks (Australia)

Emerson Horseshoe Supply Company (Bossier City, LA)

Matthias Fenner Toolworks (Germany)

Flatland Forge (Tuscola, TX)

Thomas Flinn & Co. (Sheffield, UK) retailer

Florip Tool Works (Erik Florip)

Forge de Saint Juery (Ipswich, UK) home of Auriou Toolworks

Glen-Drake Toolworks (Fort Bragg, CA)

Great Lakes Toolworks (Pierre Rousseau, Ontario, Canada) handsaw maker

Iida Tool (Osaka, Japan) Japanese tools

Joseph Haesche (Branford, CT) old world plumb bobs

Hamilton Toolworks (Jeff Hamilton, Springdale, AR)

Hardwick & Sons (Post Falls, ID) retailer

Heartwood Tools (Georgetown, TX) US sales of H.N.T. Gordon and other makers

Hida Tool Co. (Berkeley, CA) retailer of Japanese tools

Highland Woodworking (Atlanta, GA) retailer

H.N.T. Gordon & Co. (Australia)

Hock Tools (Fort Bragg, CA)

Karl Holtey Classic Hand Planes (Lairg, Sutherland, Scotland)

Caleb James

Richard Kell (Northumberland, UK)

Andrew Klein

Lake Erie Toolworks (Erie, PA)

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (Warren, ME)

Joseph Marples Ltd. (Sheffield, UK)

MetMo (Leeds, UK)

Mujingfang (made by Woodwell Tools Manufacturing Ltd., Hong Kong) 

Nano Hone (Harrelson Stanley, Pepperell, MA)  Advanced abrasives for sharpening

North Bay Forge (Jim Wester, Waldron Island, WA) Edge tools for carving; cutlery

Old Street Tool, Inc. (formerly Clark & Williams) - Planemaker

Osaka Tools (Japan)

C.S. Osborne & Co. (Harrison, NJ)

Peavy Manufacturing Co. (Eddington, ME)

Pfeil (Langenthal, Switzerland) woodcarving tools

Philly Planes (Phil Edwards, Dorset, UK)

Plate 11 Workbench Co. (Mark Hints)

Purcell Farrier Supply (Purcell, OK) retailer

Red Rose Reproductions (Dan Schwank, Sterling, IL) Traditional Woodworking Tools & Molding Planes

Rockler (US) retailer

Sauer & Steiner Toolworks

Skelton Saws (Shane Skelton, North Yorkshire, UK)

Shelter Tools (Woolrich, ME)

Sherline Products (Vista, CA)

Stanley Black and Decker (corporate site)

The L.S. Starrett Company (Athol, MA)

Sterling Tool Works (Chris Kuehn)

Tandy Leather

Tools For Working Wood (Brooklyn, NY) retailers and makers of:

BT&C (Brooklyn Tool & Craft)

Gramercy Tools

Two Cherries Tools (made by Wilh. Schmitt & Comp., Remscheid, Germany)

ULMIA (Langenenslingen, Germany)

Union Manufacturing Company (Boyertown, PA)

Vergez Blanchard (hand tools for leatherwork, upholstery, slate roofing and rubber work; Romilly sur Andelle, Normandy, France)

Veritas Tools (Canada)

Vesper Tools (Chris Vesper, Carrum Downs, Australia)

Voigt Planes (Steve Voigt, Lehigh Valley, PA)

Jeremiah Wilding Reproduction Wooden Hand Planes (Colorado)

Woodcraft (US) retailer

Workshop Heaven Fine Tools (Banbury, UK) retailer

 

BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORKER ASSOCIATIONS & OTHERS

In New Jersey:

Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

DelVal Turners

Garden State Marquetry Society Plus

Jersey Hills Wood Carvers

New Jersey Blacksmiths Association

New Jersey Woodturners Association

North Jersey Woodcarvers

North Jersey Woodworkers Association

Professional Woodworkers Guild of Upper New Jersey

Water Gap Woodturners (AAW chapter in northwest NJ)

Woodworkers' Guild of South Jersey

Elsewhere:

American Bladesmith Society

American Association of Woodturners

American Craft Council

American Welding Society

Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America (ABANA)

The Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland (Westminster, MD)

The Blacksmiths' Guild of the Potomac (Arlington, VA)

Blue Mountain Antique Gas & Steam Engine Association (Jacktown Grove)

Bucks Woodturners (Bucks County, PA)

Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild

Delaware Valley Old Time Power & Equipment Association

League of New Hampshire Craftsmen

New England Blacksmiths

Northeast Blacksmith Association

Northeastern Woodworkers Association

Rocky Mountain Smiths

Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM)

Woodworker's Guild of Rhode Island

Washington Woodworkers Guild  (D.C.)

 

CRAFT SCHOOLS

In New Jersey:

American Woodcarving & Art School (Wayne, NJ)

The DIY Joint (Hoboken, NJ)

Eastern School of Fretted Instrument Repair (Freehold, NJ)

Maplewoodshop woodworking instruction for children (East Orange, NJ)

Mr. Sawdust School of Professional Woodworking (Hackettstown, NJ)

New Jersey School of Woodwork (Washington, NJ)

Peters Valley School of Craft (Layton, NJ)

Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (Millville, NJ)

The Wood Joint (Neptune, NJ)

Elsewhere:

Acanthus (Chuck Bender) (Jim Thorpe, PA)

Amblard Leather Atelier (San Francisco, CA)

American School of French Marquetry (San Diego, CA)

Anderson Ranch Arts Center  (Snowmass Village, CO)

Appalachian Center for Craft, a campus of the School of Art, Craft & Design within the College of Fine Arts, Tennessee Tech (Smithville, TN)

The Apprenticeshop (Rockland, ME)

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN)

The Arts Center of the Capital Region (Troy, NY)

Brookfield Craft Center (Brookfield, CT)

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Rockport, ME)

Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking (Manchester, CT)

Curtis Buchanan Chairmaking (Jonesborough, TN)

Essick Woodworking School (Grass Valley, CA)

Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts (Ludlow, VT)

Florida School of Woodwork (Tampa, FL)

Foxfire Heritage Skills classes (Chattahoochee National Forest, Mountain City, GA)

The Furniture Society 

Handshouse Studio

Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Deer Isle, ME)

IYRS School of Technology & Trades (Newport, RI)

Jeff Lefkowitz Ladderback Chairmaking Classes  (Strasburg, VA)

John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC)

Kezurou-kai USA

The Krenov School at Mendocino College (Fort Bragg, CA) Formerly part of College of the Redwoods

Lonnie Bird's School of Fine Woodworking (Dandridge, TN)

Lohr School of Woodworking (Schwenksville, PA)

Maine Coast Workshop (Camden, ME)

Marc Adams School of Woodworking (Franklin, IN)

Mary May's School of Traditional Woodcarving (online courses)

Montana Horseman Saddle Building School (Belgrade, MT)

New England School of Metalwork (Auburn, ME)

North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA)

Northwest Woodworking Studio (Gary Rogowski) (Portland, OR)

Penland School of Craft (Penland, NC)

Peter Galbert Workshops (Rollinsford, NH) chairmaking

Philadelphia Furniture Workshop (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia Woodworks (Philadelphia, PA)

Port Townsend School of Woodworking (Port Townsend, WA)

Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery (Phoenix, AZ)

Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program (Williamsburg, MA)

Southwest School of Woodworking (Phoenix, AZ)

Vermont Woodworking School (Fairfax, VT)

Violin Making School of America (Salt Lake City, UT)

Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing (Waynesboro, VA)

Wood and Shop Traditional Woodworking School (Charlottesville, VA)

The WoodenBoat School (Brooklin, ME)

The Woodworking School at Pine Croft (Berea, KY)

The Woodwright's School (Roy Underhill) (Pittsboro, NC)

Worcester Center for Crafts (Worcester, MA)

 

International

The English Woodworker (online courses)

Furniture Craft School (Peter Quin)  (Scotney Castle, England)

Haliburton School of Art + Design, Fleming College (Haliburton, Ontario, Canada)

Inside Passage School of Fine Cabinetmaking (Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Canada)

Rosewood Studio (Perth, Ontario, Canada)

The Unplugged Workshop (Toronto, Canada)

The Urban Woodworker (North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

Waters & Acland Fine Furniture Workshop and Furniture School (Staveley, Kendal, UK)

MISCELLANEOUS

Offerman Wood Shop

Steve Johnsons Antique Technology

US Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory Wood Identification Public Service

Wood and Shop Featuring Frank Klausz videos

The Woodworking Shows

 

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