Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 66. no. 2, June 2013 by Willard Anderson I teach a workshop on restoring wooden planes at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, North Carolina. One of the students at the school brought in a tongue plane (one half of a tongue-and-groove pair, for larger scale work), shown in Figure 1. …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 63 no. 2, June 20 by Patty MacLeish EAIA member Charlie Beatty found these advertisements in a 1878 catalog and sent them along to share. The first is for Boynton’s Patent Lightning Saws (Figure 1). Some short entries about Boynton saws have previously been published in The Chronicle (44, no. …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 64 no. 4, December 2011 by Kenneth Schwarz Colonial Williamsburg is currently reconstructing James Anderson’s Revolutionary War-period blacksmith shop and public armoury using material prepared by Colonial Williamsburg tradesmen—carpenters, joiners, brickmakers, and blacksmiths. Among those materials are nails for siding, roofing, and flooring. About 30,000 nails will be needed to …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 62 no. 2, June, 2009 by Roger K. Smith Brief History of the Stanley CompanyIn 1858, the Stanley Rule & Level Company was formed by the consolidation of the rule business of A. Stanley and Company with the level and try square business of the Hall & Knapp Company, also …
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