Celebrating Trades, Crafts, and Tools in American History and Their Impact on Our Lives
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 65 no. 4, December 2012 by John G. Wells Luigi Nessi, a successful practicing architect and regional planner in Lugano, Switzerland, had always been curious to learn more about...
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...
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...
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,...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 62 no. 2, June, 2009 by Roger K. Smith Brief History of the Stanley Company In 1858, the Stanley Rule & Level Company was formed by the consolidation of...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 29 no. 2, June 1976 by Raymond M. Smith This is a plane that I recently acquired (Figure 1). It is a beautiful iron-soled 22″ fore plane, with beechwood...
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by Paul Van Pernis After a series of ever more contentious disputes, Leonard Bailey left The Stanley Rule & Level Company in 1874 to strike out on his own in the tool-making business. Within...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 40 no. 1, March 1987 by David B. Crowe On an international basis, the wooden shoe is typically regarded as a Dutch object. This understanding may be due, perhaps,...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 30 no. 1, March 1977 by Ivan C. Risley Several tool collections contain a small “plane-like” item that seems only to confuse the owner as to its purpose. This...
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 36 No. 2, June 1983 by Ann Wing Francis Nicholson, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, is probably the best known American planemaker. Much information about him has appeared in The Chronicle...
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