ATTIC Antique Tools and Trades In Connecticut

Connecticut Antique Machinery Association

Early American Industries Association

Mid-West Tool Collectors Association

Missouri Valley Wrench Club

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

Richmond Antique Tool Society (Virginia)

Rocky Mountain Tool Collectors

Southwest Tool Collectors Association

Timber Framer's Guild

 

International

Ambacht Gereedschap

Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia

The New Zealand Vintage Tool Collectors 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

Lost Art Press

Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools

Rude Mechanicals Press

Toolemera Books (Gary Roberts)

The Wrenching News Book Store

 

MUSEUMS

In New Jersey:

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)

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)

The Red Mill Museum Village (Clinton, NJ)

Roebling Museum (Roebling, 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)

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)

Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI)

Historic Eastfield Village (East Nassau, NY)

Maine Forest & Logging Museum (Bradley, ME)

Mercer Museum (Doylestown, PA)

Metal Museum (Memphis, TN)

Mifflinburg Buggy Museum (Mifflinburg, PA)

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 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)

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 

Backsaw.net

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.

Handplane Central

The Infill Planes Showcase

Museum of Woodworking Tools

Miller's Patent Plow Plane

Millers Falls Home Page (oldtoolheaven.com)

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

Rhode Island Toolmakers

Rich Arnold Vintage Tools gallery of early English wooden planes

The Sargent Planes Page

The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM)

Spiral Screwdriver Patents

Vaughan & Bushnell Planes

Vintage Machinery (including classified ads for machines)

The Wrenching News

Scientific American 1845-1909

The Saw Set Collector's Resource

Online resource for historic preservation (PreservationDirectory.com)

Phil Jaeger - Historical Presentations

Working by Hand blog

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)

Bristol Design Tool Shop (Bristol, UK)

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

Falcon-Wood (Peter and Annette H., SE 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)

Hyperkitten Tool Company (Joshua Clark, Oxford, CT)

Iron Bridge Tools (Shelburne Falls, MA)

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

Liberty Tool Company (Liberty, ME)

Hulls Cove Tool Barn (Bar Harbor, ME)

Captain Tinkham's Emporium (Searsport, ME)

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

Old Tools Ltd (East Sussex, UK)

Sydnas Sloot (Sandy Moss, SE Massachusetts)

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

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)

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

VintageSaws (Broadview Heights, OH)

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

Vintage Tool Shop (Stalbridge, Dorset, UK)

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 SELLERS

(more to come)

Barr Specialty Tools (Barr Quarton)

Blackburn Tools (Isaac Smith)

Caleb James

Florip Tool Works (Erik Florip)

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

H.N.T. Gordon & Co. (Australia)

Hock Tools (Fort Bragg, CA)

Andrew Klein

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (Warren, ME)

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

Red Rose Reproductions - Traditional Woodworking Tools & Molding Planes

Sauer & Steiner Toolworks

Shelter Tools (Woolrich, ME)

Stanley Black and Decker (corporate site)

Sterling Tool Works (Chris Kuehn)

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

BT&C (Brooklyn Tool & Craft)

Gramercy Tools

Veritas Tools (Canada)

 

WOODWORKING 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

Woodworkers' Guild of South Jersey

Elsewhere:

American Association of Woodturners

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

Bucks Woodturners (Bucks County, PA)

Delaware Valley Old Time Power & Equipment Association

New England Blacksmiths

Northeastern Woodworkers Association

Rocky Mountain Smiths

Washington Woodworkers Guild  (D.C.)

 

CRAFT SCHOOLS

In New Jersey:

American Woodcarving & Art School (Wayne, NJ)

The DIY Joint (Hoboken, 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 (Tinton Falls, NJ)

Elsewhere:

Acanthus (Chuck Bender) (Jim Thorpe, PA)

American School of French Marquetry (San Diego, CA)

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

Anderson Ranch Arts Center  (Snowmass Village, CO)

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)

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

Florida School of Woodwork (Tampa, FL)

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

Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Deer Isle, ME)

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

Lohr School of Woodworking (Schwenksville, PA)

Maine Coast Workshop (Camden, ME)

Mary May's School of Traditional Woodcarving

New England School of Architectural Woodworking and The Workbench School (Easthampton, MA)

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)

Philadelphia Furniture Workshop (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia Woodworks (Philadelphia, PA)

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

Vermont Woodworking School (Fairfax, VT)

The WoodenBoat School (Brooklin, ME)

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

 

International

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

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Offerman Wood Shop

Steve Johnsons Antique Technology

Wood and Shop Featuring Frank Klausz videos

The Woodworking Shows

 

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