A Unique Tongue Plane
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...
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Some Nineteenth-Century Notables
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...
Nailmaking in the Eighteenth Century
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,...
The Stanley Companies Pictorial Promotions Circa 1860-1960
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...
E. H. Morris Plane
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...
A Field Guide For Leonard Bailey’s Victor Block Planes
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...
A Danish Sabot Axe
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,...
Fillet Cutting Plane
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...
The Nicholson Family – Joiners and Toolmakers
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...
Pop Corn For Sunday Night Supper
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XVI no. 1, March 1963 by Mary Earle Gould Corn has been credited to the Indians of America. It was a species of grass growing wild and cultivated by...