ATTIC Antique Tools and Trades In Connecticut

BTCA Blow Torch Collectors Association

Connecticut Antique Machinery Association

Delaware Valley Old Time Power & Equipment Association

EAIA Early American Industries Association

Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association

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

Historic Blacksmith Conservancy

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)

PNTC 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)

Surveyors Historical Society

Vermont Gas & Steam Engine Association

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)

Can I Have It Tool Auctions group on Facebook

Great Planes Trading Company

Martin J. Donnelly Auctions

Olde Trade Auctions (Canada)

David Stanley (England)

Whiskey River Trading

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)

 

Books

Astragal Press (acquired by Globe Pequot)

Colonial Williamsburg

Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications

Linden Publishing (The Woodworker's Library)

Lost Art Press

Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools

Rude Mechanicals Press

Schiffer Publishing

Skip Jack Press (acquired by Globe Pequot)

The Taunton Press (acquired by Abrams Books)

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)

Historical Society of Haddonfield (Haddonfield, NJ) – tool museum in cellars of Greenfield Hall; tours by appointment

Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum (Lambertville, NJ)

Howell Living History Farm (Lambertville, NJ)

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

The Mahan Collection of American Trucking History (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (Madison, NJ)

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

Old Millstone Forge (Millstone, NJ)

Ralston Cider Mill (Mendham, NJ)

The Red Mill Museum Village (Clinton, NJ)

Roebling Museum (Roebling, NJ)

Space Farms Zoo & Museum – including 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)

Whippany Railway Museum (Whippany, NJ)

Whitesbog Historic Farm & Village (Browns Mills, NJ)

Elsewhere:

American Precision Museum (Windsor, VT)

Arnold Zlotoff Tool Museum (South Hero, VT)

Billings Farm & Museum (Woodstock, VT)

Canadian Museum of Making (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Carroll County Farm Museum (Westminster, MD)

Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY)

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA)

Connecticut Antique Machinery Association (Kent, CT)

Coolspring Power Museum (Coolspring, PA)

Coopers' Tool Museum (private) Sussex, UK

Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA)

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)

Frontier Culture Museum (Staunton, VA)

Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)

Garfield Farm Museum (Campton Hills, IL)

Hagley Museum & Library (Wilmington, DE)

Hammer Museum (Haines, AK)

Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield, 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)

Jacobsburg Historical Society and Pennsylvania Longrifle Museum (Nazareth, 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)

Lock Museum of America (Terryville, CT)

Maine Forest & Logging Museum (Bradley, ME)

Matheson History Museum – Tison Tool Barn (Gainesville, FL)

Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village (Avella, PA)

Mercer Museum (Doylestown, PA)

Metal Museum (Memphis, TN)

Mifflinburg Buggy Museum (Mifflinburg, PA)

The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum (Carlsbad, CA)

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

Museum of Our Industrial Heritage (Greenfield, MA)

Museum of Stone Tools (University of New England, Australia) 

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 Salem Museums & Gardens (Winston-Salem, NC)

Old Schwamb Mill (Arlington, MA)

Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, MA)

Oliver Miller Homestead (South Park, PA)

Ozark Folk Center State Park (Mountain View, AR)

Pennsylvania Lumber Museum (Ulysses, PA)

Pioneer Living History Museum (Anthem, AZ)

Railroad Museum of New England (Thomaston, CT)

Renfrew Museum & Park (Waynesboro, PA)

Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association (Kinzers, PA)

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (Saugus, MA)

Shelburne Museum (Shelburne, VT)

John Sindelar's Tool Museum (Edwardsburg, MI) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

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

St. Johnsbury History and Heritage Center (St. Johnsbury, VT)

Takenaka Carpentry Museum (Kobe, Japan)

Tinsmith Museum of America – Private

Tool Museum – Maison de l'Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière (Troyes, France)

Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, DE)

Woodcraft Museum (Līgatne Parish, Latvia)

 

INTERESTING SITES

Alloy Artifacts Museum of Tool History "Exploring Ingenuity in Iron"

The American Pocket Knife (slipjointhistory.com)

Antique and Vintage Piano Tools (Martin Shepherd Piano Service)

AnvilFire.com

aPlaneLife.us

Ax History

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"

ChapticoWood.com (Eric Bensen) – Early American try squares, miter squares and sliding bevels

Comparison Tests of Plane Blades by Steve Elliott – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

The Compleat Surveyor (Russ Uzes)

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.

The E.W. Carpenter Project and other Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, planemakers of the 1700's & 1800's

Foot Powered Machinery

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

L'Herminette – collection of French adzes

The Infill Planes Showcase

International Slide Rule Museum

International Tool Catalog Library on Internet Archive

Phil Jaeger - Historical Presentations

Lee Valley Antique Tool Collection

Peter McBride Antique and Old Tools – jewelry maker in Melbourne, Australia, who makes and restores woodworking tools

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 still under construction as of Feb. 2024)

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 [archived]

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)

Spiers Handplanes (not updated in a while)

Spiral Screwdriver Patents

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)

Vintage Vises

Virtual Museum of Surveying

J. Wiss & Sons Co. – Digitized catalogs, ads, and other ephemera related to this manufacturer of shears, scissors, razors, etc. in Newark, NJ

Working by Hand blog

The Wrenching News

WS Tools Birmingham (UK)

Online resource for historic preservation (PreservationDirectory.com)

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)

Bench and Chisel

The Best Things (Lee Richmond, Herndon, VA)

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

Cellucci Saleables jcboxlot on eBay (York, PA)

The Colonial Homestead (Dan Raber, Millersburg, OH)

Ted Dawson Antique Tools (Toronto, Canada)

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

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

Fine Tool Journal Online Store (Watervliet, MI)

G and M Tools (West Sussex, UK)

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

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

Great Expectations Antiques (Caldwell, OH)

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

Kettering Enterprises (Annville, PA)

Laurel Leaf Farm (Princeton, WI)

LeToolman (Verner, Ontario, Canada)

Liberty Tool Co. (Liberty, ME)

Loon Lake Tool Works (Bob Page, Michigan)

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

Old School Tools (Southport, UK)

Old Tools Ltd (East Sussex, UK)

The Old Tool Store (Ray Isles, Horncastle, UK)

Olde Trade Tools (Doug Evans, Fergus, Ontario, Canada)

Michael Rouillard Antique Tools (Plainfield, CT)

Swan Lake Tool Barn (Jeff Pearson, Searsport, ME)

TakeADip Old Tool Shop (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 Squirrel (Steyning, West Sussex, UK)

Tool Thrift Shop (Fairport, NY)

Tooltique (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)

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

Vintage Resurrection (Las Vegas, NV)

VintageSaws (Broadview Heights, OH)

Vintage Tool Shop (Melbourne, Australia)

Vintage Vials (Stephen Sedor, Mechanicsburg, PA)

Vintage Woodworking Tools (Minnesota)

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

Jon Zimmer Antique Tools (Portland, OR)

 

MODERN TOOL MAKERS and RETAILERS

Anvil Brand Shoe Company (Lexington, IL) – retailer of farriers' tools and supplies

Axe & Anvil Tool Works (Tennessee)

Bad Axe Toolworks (Mark Harrell, Superior, WI)

Barr Specialty Tools (Barr Quarton, McCall, ID)

Benchcrafted (Cedar Rapids, IA)

M.S. Bickford (Haddam Neck, CT) – reproduction 18th Century molding planes 

Elia Bizzarri (Hillsborough, NC) – chairmaking tools and supplies

Blackburn Tools (Isaac Smith)

Blacksmiths Depot (Candler, NC)

Blue Spruce Toolworks (Strongsville, OH)

Blum Tool Co. (Walnut, IA)

Brant & Cochran Axes (South Portland, ME)

Brese Plane (Ron Brese, Thomaston, VA)

Bridge City Tool Works (Montclair, CA) – acquired by Harvey Industries in 2018

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

Rob Cosman (Grand Bay-Westfield, New Brunswick, Canada)

Covington & Sons Tools (Tokyo, Japan) – retailer of Japanese tools

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

Czeck Edge Hand Tool archived site (Bob Zajicek, Marietta, GA) – acquired by Benchcrafted in 2024

Daed Toolworks (Raney Nelson, Greenfield IN) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

DFM Tool Works (Chicago IL)

DICTUM (Germany)

Diefenbacher Tools (Littleton, CO)

Elkhead Tools (Denver, CO) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

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) – Erik passed away Dec. 2023 and his website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

Glen-Drake Toolworks (Fort Bragg, CA) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

Grand Forest (Summerville, SC)

Gränsfors Bruk (Sweden)

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

Iida Tool (Osaka, Japan) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

Joseph Haesche (Branford, CT) – old world plumb bobs

Hamilton Toolworks (Jeff Hamilton, Springdale, AR)

Hardwick & Sons (Post Falls, ID) – retailer

Harvey Woodworking (Nanjing, China)

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)

Holland Anvil (Holland, MI)

Honey Brook Tools (William Adams, Barre, VT)

Kalthoff Axes (Stockholm, Sweden)

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

Katz Moses Tools (Goleta, CA)

Caleb James Maker (Greenville, SC)

David Jeske (Oregon City, OR)

Richard Kell (Northumberland, UK)

Kestrel Tool (Lopez Island, WA) – crooked knives and adzes

Andrew Klein

Knew Concepts (Santa Cruz, CA)

Lake Erie Toolworks (Erie, PA)

The Lazarus Handplane Co. (Louisville, KY)

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (Warren, ME)

Jason A. Lonon Toolmaker (Marion, NC)

Loon Lake Tool Works (Bob Page, Houghton, MI)

Joseph Marples Ltd. (Sheffield, UK)

Scott Meeks Woodworks (Asheville, NC) – fine wooden planes; offers plane-making classes

Melbourne Tool Company (Melbourne, Australia)

MetMo (Leeds, UK)

Claire Minihan Woodworks – travishers

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

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

NC Tools Company (Pleasant Garden, NC) – farriers' tools

New Heritage Woodworks (Stephen Slocum, Fuquay-Varina, NC)

Nihonsan Tools (Brooklyn, NY) – Japanese tools and hardware

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

Northmen Guild of Northern Master Craftsmen

Old Street Tool, Inc. (formerly Clark & Williams) – website is no longer available; archived on Wayback Machine

The Old Tool Store (Ray Isles, Horncastle, UK) – retailer of new tools as well

Ben & Lois Orford – bushcraft knives, woodcraft tools and leather work

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

REED (James Wright, Loves Park, IL) – planes and accessories

Rockler (US) – retailer

Sauer & Steiner Toolworks

Seven Pines Forge (Ted Ferringer, Knox, PA)

Skelton Saws (Shane Skelton, North Yorkshire, UK)

Skowhegan Wooden Rule Company (Skowhegan, ME)

Shelter Tools (Woolrich, ME)

Sherline Products (Vista, CA)

Spring Green Saws (Charlie Earnest, Warwick, RI)

Stanley Black and Decker (corporate site)

The L.S. Starrett Company (Athol, MA)

Sterling Tool Works (Chris Kuehn)

Stewmac (Stewart-MacDonald Manufacturing Co.) – luthier tools and supplies

Stubai (Fulpmes, Austria)

Tandy Leather – retailer of leathercraft tools

Timberwolf Tools (Chicago, IL) – retailer of timber framing power tools

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

BT&C (Brooklyn Tool & Craft)

Gramercy Tools

TrueTrac (Manchester, OH)

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

ULMIA (Langenenslingen, Germany)

Union Manufacturing Company (Boyertown, PA)

Vaughan Manufacturing (Woodstock, IL)

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

Veritas Tools (Canada)

Vesper Tools (Chris Vesper, Carrum Downs, Australia)

Voigt Planes (Steve Voigt, Lehigh Valley, PA)

Warwood Tool (Warwood, WV)

Dennis Wayne (Buffalo, NY) – custom built hand saws

Jeremiah Wilding (Colorado) – reproduction wooden hand planes

Alan Williams Woodworker (TN) – travishers

Woodcraft (US) – retailer

Woodspirit Handcraft (Jarrod Dahl, Ashland, WI)

The Woodworks Book & Tool Co. (Sydney, Australia)

Workshop Heaven Fine Tools (Banbury, UK) – retailer

Yukon Forge (Milliken, CO)

Zen-Wu Toolworks (Hong Kong)

 

BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORKER ASSOCIATIONS & OTHERS

In New Jersey:

Atlantic Shore Woodturners

Central Jersey Woodworkers Association

DelVal Turners

Garden State Marquetry Society

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 Institute for Conservation

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

Eastern Massachusetts Guild of Woodworkers

League of New Hampshire Craftsmen

Lehigh Valley Woodworkers Guild

New England Blacksmiths

Northeast Blacksmith Association

Northeastern Woodworkers Association

Rocky Mountain Smiths

Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM)

Society of Arts + Crafts

Southwest Association of Turners (SWAT)

Timber Framer's Guild

Tin Tinkers Group Promoting Historical Tinsmithing and Coppersmithing

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 (Union City, 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 (Long Branch, 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)

Austin School of Furniture (Austin, TX)

Brookfield Craft Center (Brookfield, CT)

The Cabinetmaker's Woodworking School/Dale Barnard (Paoli, IN)

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Rockport, ME)

The Chairmaker's Toolbox

Charleston Woodworking School (Charleston, SC)

Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking (Manchester, CT)

Curtis Buchanan Chairmaking (Jonesborough, TN)

Essick Woodworking School (Grass Valley, CA)

Eureka Springs School of the Arts (Eureka Springs, AR)

Fireweed Community Workshop (Minneapolis, MN)

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

Florida School of Woodwork (Tampa, FL)

Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation FIERF (Independence, OH)

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

The Furniture Society 

Handshouse Studio

HatchSpace (Brattleboro, VT)

Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Deer Isle, ME)

Heartwood School (Alstead, NH) — timber framing

IYRS School of Technology & Trades (Newport, RI)

Jeff Lefkowitz Ladderback Chairmaking Classes  (Strasburg, VA)

John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC)

The Joint Effort (Ozark, MO)

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) – Jeffry retired and closed his school but website has good content

Maine Coast Craft School (Bristol, ME)

Makeville Studio (Brooklyn, NY)

Marc Adams School of Woodworking (Franklin, IN)

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

Mass Collective (Atlanta, GA)

Montana Horseman Saddle Building School (Belgrade, MT)

The Nautical Arts Workshop (Deep River, CT) – woodworking & craft classes

New England School of Metalwork (Auburn, ME)

North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA)

North House Folk School (Grand Marais, MN)

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

Ozark Folk Center (Mountain View, AR)

Penland School of Craft (Penland, NC)

Peter Galbert Workshops (Rollinsford, NH) chairmaking

Philadelphia Furniture Workshop (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia Woodworks (Philadelphia, PA)

Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft (Columbia, NC)

Port Townsend School of Woodworking (Port Townsend, WA)

Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery (Phoenix, AZ)

Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute (Adrian, MI)

SawSharp (Superior, WI) handsaw sharpening seminars & training

Sawyer Made (South Woodbury, VT) chairmaking classes

School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Art and Design (Rochester, NY)

Silver Hammer Workshop (Wilmington, DE) woodworking camp for kids

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

Sound Foundation Woodworking Academy (Milan, IL)

Southwest School of Woodworking (Phoenix, AZ)

Tillers International (Scotts, MI)

Traditional Building Skills Institute at Snow College (Ephraim, UT)

Tunnel Mill Crafts (Spring Valley, MN)

Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)

Vermont Woodworking School (Fairfax, VT)

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

Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing (Waynesboro, VA)

Wendell Castle Workshop (Scottsville, NY)

Windsors and More (Travis E. Curtis, Nashville, TN)

The Wabi Sabi School for Japanese Craft (Mercer, ME) – formerly Never Stop Building

Wood and Shop Traditional Woodworking School (Charlottesville, VA)

The WoodenBoat School (Brooklin, ME)

Woodspirit School of Traditional Craft (Ashland, WI)

The Woodworking School at Pine Croft (Berea, KY)

Worcester Center for Crafts (Worcester, MA)

A Workshop of Our Own (Baltimore, MD)

 

International

The English Woodworker (online courses)

The Centre for Fine Woodworking (Nelson, New Zealand)

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

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)

Rowden Atelier School of Fine Woodworking (Beaworthy, UK)

Two Smiths Workshops (Kitchener, 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)

The Windsor Workshop (West Chiltington, West Sussex, UK)

MISCELLANEOUS

Internet Tool Wizard – date calculator

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

Passion For Craft podcast

Offerman Wood Shop

Scientific American 1845-1909 – Internet Archive of digitized issues

Steve Johnsons Antique Technology

TradesUp their mission: to support the development of the next generation of trades and crafts people

US Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory Wood Identification Public Service

Wood and Shop Featuring Frank Klausz videos