Tour the IIAH (virtually, of course)
In our continuing effort to keep amused during these times of “social distancing”, here’s a link to a virtual tour of the IIAH- Institute for Industrial Arts and History. Lot’s of short videos of...
Category: Tools
Justus Traut’s “Bull-nozed” Convertible Block Plane
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)....
There is a Stanley No. 145!
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...
Tools, Techniques & Traditions: A Forum at OSV
As part of the overall initiative to bring woodworking and cabinetmaking back to prominence at Old Sturbridge Village, the Village is hosting an all-day Woodworking Forum “Tools, Techniques and Traditions” on Saturday, October 19....
WHAT A TIME WE HAD!
We came, we were busy, we saw and learned a lot, and we had a great time! That pretty much sums up the 2019 Early American Industries Association’s Annual Meeting in Lowell, Massachusetts. After...
Colonial Homestead: A Midwest Tool Mecca
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...
Rule Collectors Rule!
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”...
Lowell is Looming!
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...
Sargent Model Shop Tools: Prototype Successor to Shaw’s Patent Planes?
Here it is at only the second post of this blog and I’ve gone off the subject of Stanley Model Shop tools in my collection to discuss a Sargent prototype plane that joined the...
Who Gets The Credit?
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...