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This article is excerpted from The Chronicle, Volume X, December 1957 An exhibit of old-time beekeeping equipment i now open to the public at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. This collection of old...
This post comes our way from board member Sally Fishburn, http://www.safishburn.net/ Sally’s company, S.A.Fishburn, Inc. is dedicated to helping individuals (home owners, municipalities, non-profits, etc.) maintain the historic spirit and materials of their buildings...
Block Planes / Blog / EAIA / Historic Trades / Industries / industry / Planes / Specialty Planes / Stanley Model Shop / Stanley Rule & Level Company / Tools / Uncategorized / Woodworking Tools
In an April 2017 blog entitled “Justus Traut’s Bull-Nose Plane” I discussed a delightful little bull-nose plane from the Stanley Model Shop that was the product of Justus Traut’s inventive prowess (See Figure 1)....
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The “combination plane” was developed to create a woodworking tool that would perform multiple functions and free a workman from having to own a large number of individual planes. Over a 50-year time span...
Bench Planes / Blacksmithing / Framing Squares / Historic Trades / Joinery Planes / Masonry Tools / Metalworking Tools / Molding Planes / Planes / Plow Planes / Rules / Saws / Tape Measures / Tools / Woodworking Tools
In almost every woodworking class I teach in Covington, Ky., there’s at least one student who has driven through Ohio to get there who has stopped at Colonial Homestead in Millersburg. Every one of...
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The first yearly antique tool auctions bring tool collectors out of their winter hibernation as surely as the vernal equinox marks the coming of Spring. One of the highlights of this “Rite of Spring”...
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Apologies for the pun, but, this long hard winter will come to an end, the snow will melt, the trees will bud out and the flowers will bloom, and Early American Industries Association members...
Bench Planes / Blog / EAIA / Historic Trades / Industries / Planes / Specialty Planes / Tools / Woodworking Tools
The Stanley No. 97 Cabinet Maker’s Edge Plane In late 1869 or early 1870, shortly after Leonard Bailey started working at the Stanley Rule & Level Company, he produced the “chisel plane” shown in...
Bench Planes / Blog / EAIA / General Information / Historic Trades / History / Industries / industry / Planes / Tools / Uncategorized / Woodworking Tools
Leonard Bailey appears to have begun experimenting with and manufacturing vertical post planes sometime in 1860. These planes are called “vertical post” planes because of the two vertically positioned threaded rods located behind the...
Blacksmith Interest Group / Blacksmithing / Blacksmithing / Historic Trades / industry / Metalworking Tools / Regional Meetings / Uncategorized
The Blacksmith Interest Group (BIG) of EAIA held a regional meeting at the reconstructed Moses Wilder Blacksmith shop in Bolton, Massachusetts on July 28th. The purpose of the meeting was to provide hands-on demonstrations...
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