Posts by category

• Category: Axes and Hatchets
  • Dobnikar Axe
  • Making hickory handles for tools
  • Helve a Small Bearded Hatchet by James E. Price
  • Rehanging the Gutter Adze
• Category: Casey Benton's Collection
  • Hand Planes By Modern Grinder Company
  • Stanley Canada–The Early Years
• Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered
  • Millers Falls Drill Presses
  • Category: Drilling Tools - Bit Braces
    • Manufactured Gimlet Bit Handles
    • W.A. Clark Expansive Bits by Eric Brown
    • An Early Brace circa 1820’s
    • G.L. Holt’s Bit for Boring Wood
    • Harry S. Bartholomew Bit brace
    • Bit Braces to Look For
  • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Gear Drills
    • Common Gear Drill Problems/Ailments
    • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Breast
      • Millers Falls No.13A
      • Millers Falls No.12
      • Millers Falls Nos.87 & 97
    • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Compact
      • North Brothers “YANKEE” No.1435
      • North Brothers “Yankee” No.1530A
      • North Brothers “Yankee” No.1430
    • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Hybrid
      • North Brothers “Yankee” No.1445
      • Goodell Pratt No.5 1/2
    • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Press
      • North Brothers “YANKEE” No.1003
    • Category: Drilling Tools - Hand Powered - Standard
      • Millers Falls No.2
      • Millers Falls No.3
      • Millers Falls No.77
      • Millers Falls No.1
• Category: Eli Jensen's Stories
  • Saga of the Short Saw: A Successful Lesson of Failure
• Category: General Tool Collecting
  • Forged Blacksmith’s Post Vise
  • Stanley Tool Collectors Display – By Preston Sweeney
  • My Tool Library
• Category: Glen's Millers Falls Corner
  • Oh my, a Millers Falls 17B?
• Category: Hand Planes
  • Jacob Siegley Hand Planes
  • Upson Nut #29 Transitional Fore Plane
  • The Hand Tool Chronicles –  Hazard Knowles, Birdsill Holly & Leonard Bailey – Edition No. 8
  • Famport – Possibly Consolidated Tool made Smoother
  • Vintage Sandusky Made-Ellis H. Morris Patent
  • Stanley Liberty Bell Hand Plane Series
  • Leonard Bailey #5 Victor Jack Plane
  • Infill Shooting plane. Make it a pair!
  • Stanley Number 1 Hand Plane Dimensions
  • A look alike Marples 2690 Wood Hand Plane
  • THE SANDUSKY TOOL COMPANY A Brief History (Part 3)
  • THE SANDUSKY TOOL COMPANY – A Brief History Part 2
  • THE SANDUSKY TOOL COMPANY – A Brief History
  • Upson Nut Block Plane
  • A Hollow Auger Made From a Skewed Rabbet Plane
  • The Stanley #85 by James Price
  • Shelton #04 or maybe not.
  • Millers Falls Skewed Jack Prototype
  • The Millers Falls Buck Rogers #714 Jack Plane
  • Sargent Transitional type Study
  • The Stanley Cordovan Era
  • Roger K. Smith’s 2010 calendar
  • A Very Early Sargent #409
  • Sargent Bench Plane Identification Guide
  • Sandusky #3SC
  • The Sargent #411
  • Ohio Tools Jointer Plane with Adjustable Frog
  • Ohio Tools 065 Block Plane Edward Marks Patent Lateral Adjustment
  • Standard Rule #37 (Upson Nut)
  • HAND PLANES – JUST TO LOOK – PAGE 2
  • Steers 304 Patented Bench Plane
  • HAND PLANES – JUST TO LOOK – PAGE 1
  • Circa 1876 Metallic Plane Co. Plow Plane
  • My Transitional Planes
  • Stanley Time Line
  • Winchester Planes
  • Sargent Plane Catalog – 1925
  • The Elusive 6408 Sargent
  • The Victor Planes By Stanley
  • Building the dw Infill Shoulder plane
  • Standard Rule Co. – Some Planes and Info
  • Building the infill Plane. Not so much metal work style.
  • A #3 Size Infill.
  • The full size #4 dw Infill
  • Small Scraper Plane (x 2)
  • A new cherry body for a Stanley Transitional.
  • York Pitch Shop make Smoother
  • Saving the #5!
  • A Jointer worth a mention
  • Unknown Planes.
  • Brass Badged Sargents.
  • Haley
  • Metallic Plane Co.
  • Union Planes and what I know about them
  • Ohio Tools Planes and Some History
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 7
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 6
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 5
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 4
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 3
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 2
  • Making the 2015 Toted Infill Smoother Part 1
  • Quickly Identify Your Hand Plane
  • Making of a Krenov Style Smoother
  • Category: Bailey Tool Co
    • Bailey Tool Co. #17 Restoration
  • Category: Bedrock
    • Bedrock By Stanley
  • Category: Birdsill Holly
    • Birdsill Holly Photo Gallery
    • Birdsill Holly Restoration
  • Category: Birmingham or "B" Planes
    • Birmingham B Plane with an Adjustable Mouth (AKA Derby #4 1/4)
    • Birmingham-Derby-Union-Stanley Hand Plane Transition
    • Birmingham Plane with the Blade Band
    • Birmingham Transitional Plane – Oliver R. Hayworth Patent
    • A Union #3 with the Mosher Patent lateral
    • Birmingham Planes ("B" Planes)
    • Birmingham Plane Co. #101
  • Category: Block Planes
    • Millers Falls-Stanley Side by Side Cam lever block plane cap comparison
    • Stanley Type 1 #120
    • The Simple Block Plane
    • Ohio Tools Block Planes
    • My Stanley 120 restore
    • Restoration of a Sargent 5206
    • Made in Germany #2200 Block Plane
    • Block Plane Dating
    • Some Before and after pictures of a Type 2 Stanley #18
    • An Ohio Tools 019 Knuckle Block Plane
    • A Keen Kutter #9 1/2 Block Plane
    • My Stanley 120 restore.
    • Restored Early Stanley 9 1/2
    • The Rapier Block
    • Who Made That Block Plane
    • Stanley #65 type 1 restoration
  • Category: Buckeye
    • Buckeye Saw Vice Company #4 Smoothing Plane
  • Category: Chaplin Hand Planes
    • Chaplin Hand Planes
    • Chaplin Shooting Board & Plane
    • Chaplin’s Improved Hand Plane
  • Category: Circular Planes
    • Circular Planes
    • Stanley Type 1 & 2 #13
  • Category: Combination Planes
    • Stanley #45/55 Spur Cleaning and Sharpening By Tom Strader
    • Sargent Combination Planes Nos. 1080 and 1085 Description and Directions for Use
    • Stanley #45 and #46 Pamphlets
  • Category: Craftsman Hand Planes
    • A History of the Fulton Model 5260 and 5262 Cast Iron Bench Planes Sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    • Craftsman Plane Pamphlet 1951
    • Craftsman Hand Plane Model Number Comparison
    • 1908 Sears Roebuck Catalogue Tools
    • A Brass Badged Sargent Made Craftsman #414C.
    • Fulton or Fulton Tool Company.
  • Category: Dating Hand Planes
    • Who made the “Right-Hand” Bend Lateral Lever Fulton Hand Planes?
    • Stanley English Type Study Draft
    • Stanley Cutter dates
    • Stanley Bench Plane Typing
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series
  • Category: Dating Sargent
    • Dating Hand Planes Start Page
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 5400 Series
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 7
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 6
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 5
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 4
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 3
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 2
    • Dating Sargent bench Planes – 400 Series Type 1
  • Category: Dating Stanley
    • An In-depth Study of Number Two Bailey Hand Planes Chapter One: The Long and Short of It
    • The Elusive Stanley Type 3.
    • Stanley Defiance Line
    • Stanley Bases
    • Stanley Type 20
    • Additional examples of type 19’s are here
    • Stanley Type 18
    • Stanley Type 17
    • Stanley Type 16
    • Stanley Type 15
    • Stanley Type 14
    • Stanley Type 13
    • Stanley Type 12
    • Stanley Type 11
    • Stanley Type 10
    • Stanley Type 9
    • Stanley Type 8
    • Stanley Type 7
    • Stanley Type 6
    • Stanley Type 5
    • Stanley Type 4
    • Stanley Type 3
    • Stanley Type 2
    • Stanley Type 1
  • Category: Davis Level & Tool
    • The Davis L & T Smoother
  • Category: Early American plane makers (1700's)
    • A Quest for Early American Plane Makers
  • Category: Fulton
    • Known Examples of Planes Made by Millers Falls for other companies
  • Category: Gage
    • Look-A-likes – Sargent Auto-Set and Stanley/Gage Self Setting Planes
  • Category: Goodall
    • Goodall Hand Planes
  • Category: Hahn Planes (Edwin Hahn)
    • Edwin Hahn #14 Jointer
    • Edwin Hahn Patterns Makers Plane
    • Edwin Hahn #6 restoration before and after.
    • Edwin Hahn #5 Jack Plane
    • Edwin Hahn #8 Fore Plane
    • Siegley Hahn Bench Plane Lever caps
    • Edwin Hahn #12 Jointer
    • Edwin Hahn #3 Bench Plane
    • Edwin Hahn #9 restoration before and after.
    • Edwin Hahn Planes & History
  • Category: Hand Plane How-tos
    • How I remove the threaded rod from the frog for blade adjuster knob on a Hand Plane Video
    • Mitre plane restoration – By RS Woodworks Part 3
    • Cleaning the small pesky Frog Washers -By Tom Strader
    • Mitre Plane Restoration By RS Woodworks Part 2
    • Mitre Plane Restoration By RS Woodworks Part 1
    • A “Sargent made Dunlap”–Chip Breakers-Cutters and Hock
    • Plane Makers Float Review
    • JayT’s Building the Infill Shooting Plane
    • Mixtures for wood working tasks
    • Making a Scraper out of a saw plate.
    • Hand Plane Restoration by the no soak method.
    • Tuning the cap iron (chip breaker)
    • Replace a bench plane lateral adjuster
    • Fixing (or making) a Tote Bolt
    • How flat does my smoother sole need to be?
    • Checkering a Plane tote
    • The Stanley #62 Low Angle Block plane, 1905-1942
    • Repairing the Bench Plane Tote, the dw way
    • Knob Base Repair
    • Making A Bench Plane Tote
    • Restoring the Sargent Transitional Part 5 – The Before & After
    • Restoring the Sargent Transitional Part 4 – Base
    • Restoring the Sargent Transitional Part 3 – The Blade
    • Restoring the Sargent Transitional Part 2 – The Knob & Tote
    • Restoring the Sargent Transitional Part 1
    • Tuning it up, Bench plane style
    • How to set up a Hand Plane
    • Bench Plane Restoration Guide. Part 2
    • Bench Plane Restoration Guide. Part 1
  • Category: Hand Plane Info
    • Sargent Model Shop Tools: Prototype Successor to Shaw’s Patent Planes?
    • Vintage #4 metal bodied Smoothing Plane Weight Comparisons
    • Huber and Flickinger Patent Plane
    • Lever Cap Comparisons and Differences
    • Upson Nut
    • H.C. Marsh Tool Co.
    • Sargent #415 Restored
    • Union X-Series Bench Planes
    • Diamond Edge #4C by Shapliegh
    • Interesting Hand Plane Tidbit for Today (1)
    • Stanley Two Tone
    • An Ohio Tools Mystery – The 300 Series Hand Plane
    • Plane Making in Scotland
    • Keen Kutter Planes and what I know about them.
    • Does Corrugation Reduce friction on a Hand Plane
    • Who Made the Pressed Steel Frog Bench Planes.
    • General Hand Plane notes, sizes, threads and misc info
    • Where did the term “Frog” come from in Hand Planes
    • Why were Hand Planes Corrugated
    • Is it a Knowles, a Holly, or ???
    • Sargent Hand Planes by the number–with pictures.
    • Sargent Shaw Patent Planes
    • The #5 1/4 Story.
    • Cut Away Views
    • Sargent Bench Plane Sizes
    • History of SARGENT
    • Brands Other Than Stanley
    • To Restore a hand plane or to not restore a hand plane.
    • References For Hand Planes
    • Making the dw infills: Lets do some tapping and peening.
    • Category: Beginners Help
      • Making of the Cast Iron Carpenters’ Plane at the Stanley Rule & Level Company – 1898
      • Sargent-Stanley Chip Breaker differences
      • Thoughts on Vintage Hand Planes
      • Sharpening and Setting an Early Ohio Tools Hand Plane
      • REFURBISHING AND TUNING HAND PLANES THE “WEBSTER METHOD”
      • PART 10 Refinish The Knob & Tote
      • Part 9 Final Sharpening of the Hand Plane Blade
      • Part 8 Cleaning Up The Hand Plane Blade
      • Part 7 Here is How I flatten the sole of a Hand Plane
      • Part 5 Restore the lever cap.
      • Part 6 Working the chip breaker.
      • Part 4 how to remove a stubborn chip breaker screw
      • BENCH PLANE RESTORATION GUIDE. PART 3 – The video Series 1
      • What Bench Planes do I need.
      • Roger K. Smith’s Stanley Transitional Type Study
      • A Derusting Shoot-out
      • Is This Frog Adjustable?
      • Tuning time. What Vintage Hand Plane is Best?
      • Can you save that Cutter – Part 2
      • Can you save that cutter
      • What to look for when buying vintage planes
      • Plane Terms
      • Know Your Plane Parts
  • Category: Hand Plane Restoration Help
    • Japanning or The Art of Embracing the Arcane
    • The Price of Immortality
    • Restoration of Japanned Plow Planes – By Don Bosse.
    • Electrolysis at TimeTestedTools
    • I need to remove the handle on my old Stanley #45
    • Restoration Technique Comparisons
    • Saving a Stanley Type 2. Risk equals reward.
    • Category: Hand Plane Restore Videos
  • Category: Hand Plane Restores
    • A Stanley #45 resurrected.
    • Fillister Restored
    • The Sargent #15 Shaw Patent.
    • G Davies Infill Plane Restoration
    • Saving the #48
    • A Scrub and Jack back to service
    • A Stanley #45. Finding a home.
    • A Type 6 Siegley No. 4 Restore
    • Let’s trick out a type 21 #4
    • Stanley #62 Low Angle Jack renovation
  • Category: Hand Plane Sharpening
    • Sharpening past the DMT and Polishing the iron
  • Category: Hand Plane Tidbits
  • Category: Hand Planes - Before & After
  • Category: Infill Planes
  • Category: Keen Kutter Planes
  • Category: Leonard bailey
  • Category: Metallic Plane Co.
  • Category: Millers Falls
  • Category: Misc Plane Makers
  • Category: Molding Planes
  • Category: My Plane Builds
    • Category: Making The 2015 Toted Infill Smoother
  • Category: Ohio Tools
    • My Notes on Ohio tools Timeline (draft type study)
  • Category: Sandusky
    • THE SANDUSKY TOOL COMPANY A BRIEF HISTORY (PART 4)
  • Category: Sargent
    • Sargent Plane Catalog – 1926
    • Category: Sargent Shaw Patent
  • Category: Shelton
    • Shelton Hand Plane Study
  • Category: Shooting Planes
  • Category: Shop Made & Remade Planes
  • Category: Siegley Planes (Jacob Siegley)
  • Category: Standard Rule-Upson Nut
  • Category: Stanley Planes
    • Stanley’s The Joy of Accomplishment
    • Stanley Pamphlet circa 1900
  • Category: Steers' Patented
  • Category: Tom Strader's Collection
    • Repairing and or Replacing Box Labels
  • Category: Transitionals
  • Category: Union Mfg Co.
  • Category: Unknown Planes
  • Category: Winchester
  • Category: Wood Bodied Planes
    • Category: Plow or Plough Planes
      • Styles of Metal Skates on Wood Plow Planes–By Tom Strader
• Category: James A. Clark
• Category: James E. Price's Entries
• Category: Levels and Inclinometers
  • Sold Level Prices
  • My First Davis & Cook Level
• Category: Machinery
  • Walker Turner Lathe Restore. Fighting to the bitter end.
  • Walker Turner 16″Bandsaw Restoration
• Category: Mark H Robinson’s Collection
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – J. Rabone & Sons calipers
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Two-foot, two-fold carpenters slide rules
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – rasps, rifflers, floats and files
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – A tailor’s adjustable measure
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Alexander A. Welsh’s Marking Gauge
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – The Awl
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Arthur Pearson Ibbott’s sliding jaw of an adjustable wrench
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Tools of the Trade…tailoring/dressmaking
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Plumb roofer’s hatchet
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Another Gem from Stanley – the No. 79 Side Rabbet Plane
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection–Tools Used to Mark a level
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Two-Fold Twelve Inch Boxwood and Brass Rules
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – A simple block plane
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection–Floating’ Bubble Device
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Stanley No. 7 ‘Blind Man’ rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Upson Nut Co. No. 36 1/2 two-fold one foot rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Stanley No. 68
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Apex combination glass cutter
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Trammel Points
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Daniel Charles Stillson
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – the scratch gauge
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – two fine Stanley tools
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – metric zig-zag rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Stanley No. 17 24 inch two-fold rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection–A wonderful boxwood folding rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – What’s in a Name – Measuring tools
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – a three part a mystery handtool challenge
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – multitool meat cleaver
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Elmer M Fell
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Varanus Snell
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – The Eclipse No. 36
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – My Favorite Sweethearts
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Joseph Gagnon
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – A little more Chapin
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection –
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection–Mellon Banks Tape Measure
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Christopher F Thullen
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Lufkin-873L
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection–A delightful adjustable wrench
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – two foot boxwood rule
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Saunders Norvell
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – a real little gem of a cool tool!
  • From Mark H Robinson’s Collection – Names to conjure with
• Category: Misc Tools
• Category: My Collection
  • The Union 500 series
  • S. Biggin & Sons Backsaw Restore
  • A couple more restores
  • E M Boynton rip restored
  • My Disston 70
  • Wheeler, Madden & Clemson Back saw
• Category: References (External)
  • Hand Saw References
• Category: Rhyolith's tool corner
• Category: RSWoodworks' Tool Corner
• Category: Sargent - Misc Tools
  • Jefferson 14″ Backsaw by Sargent
• Category: Saws (Hand Saws)
  • Sharpening A Vintage Disston Metal-cutting Miter Saw
  • Making a Saw Handle for a Disston D8
  • Simonds Guide for Carpenters – 1914
  • Making A Handsaw Handle — Or Two
  • Hand Saw Restorations – How to bring back the detail of an etch
  • Category: Mitre Boxes
    • Exploring Vintage Mitre Boxes #1: Stanley’s First, A Traut Patent Mitre Box
    • A Millers Falls 74c Miter Box Restore
  • Category: Saws - Disston
    • Restoration of a Disston No. 7 Panel Saw
    • Disston D-24
  • Category: Saws - Forestry
    • Sharpening Crosscut Saws (1922)
    • Simonds Crescent Saw Tools
    • United States Forest Service Cross Cut Saw Manual
  • Category: Saws - Restores
    • Groves & Sons Hand Saw Restoration
  • Category: Saws - Sharpening
    • Common Sense Saw Filing Clamp From 1901
    • Simond’s How to File a Hand Saw- Circa 1916
    • Tools I use for Saw Sharpening
    • The Best Saw Sharpening Video Ever published
  • Category: Saws - Simonds
    • Simonds Cross Cut Saw Tools No. 342
  • Category: Saws -Info
    • Hazard Knowles Patented Hand Saw
    • Cornell Willis & Co Hand Saw
    • Walter Cresson – Philadelphia Sawmaker
    • A Zoological Look At Handsaw Medallions
  • Category: Saws How-To
• Category: The Quackenbush Bench
• Category: Tools 4 Sale
• Category: Uncategorized
  • A Gallery of Sargent Hand Planes
  • Standard Rule 18″ Fore Plane
  • Birmingham Transitional Hand Plane Video – Hayworth Patent
  • The Hand Plane Collection Chronicles – First Edition – The Mark Nickel’s Collection
  • Sargent Block Planes
  • My Sargent Block Plane Collection Video
  • Sargent #400 Adjustable Tote
  • The Axe from the Roots
  • With My Own Hands – How To Restore a Vintage Hand Plane for Woodworking
  • Blacksmithing, Bladesmithing & Knife making Content
  • Early Sargent Hand Plane Brochure by L.C. Thompson – Pottsville PA
  • HAND PLANES – JUST TO LOOK – PAGE 3
• Category: Vintage Documentation
  • Millers Falls and Hoosick Falls
  • Stanley No. 55 Combination Plane Pamphlet
  • Original Stanley Saw Set 42-43-442 Pamphlet
  • Stanley’s 1950 Tool Guide
• Category: Wood Carving