Jim's Hand-Tool Woodworking Links
Here is a collection of Links to sites with
information about woodworking with Hand Tools and information about Old Tools.
Many thanks to those who made these sites available to promote the dying art of
using hand tools for Woodworking.
- Jim Boyett
References:
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All About Adzes
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Amateur
Woodworking History
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American Woodworker Archived Issues
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Badger Pond
Article Archives
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Backsaw.net: some great old paintings of early 1900's saw factories in
England (and MUCH more....)
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Bob Smalser
Articles
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Critical Tools needed for every workshop - Pop. Woodworking
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Derek Cohen -- Tools and
Reviews
- Electronic Neanderthal Woodworker
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FWW Journal Contents
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Find Articles - News, Magazine back issues & Reference on all topics
- Fine
Woodworking Network: Archives of Fine Woodworking -- Requires $$
subscription
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Forest Products Laboratory -- Forest Service -- USDA
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Missoula Technology Development Center (Part of U.S.D.A. Forest Service)
-- login name: t-d password: t-d [Search for "ax" or "saw"]
- Galoot Central
-- pictures from the Old Tools Group
- Google
Patent Search
- Hand
Tool Makers: Toolemera Press
- Handplane
Central: Information on hand-made planes
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Highland-Hardware Woodworking Library
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How-To Guides: The Index of Fossil-Fuel-Friendly Woodworking Knowledge
- HTPAA:Hand
Tool Preservation Society of Australia
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Janka Hardness Scale
For Wood
- Janka Wood Hardness Scale -- another one
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List of Links:
Hand Tools
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MWTCA Patent
Information
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Neanderthal BrainTrust
- Norse
Woodsmith: How to make all kinds of woodworking tools.
- OldTools Archive
-
OldTools FAQ
- Old Tools Shop: Tons of great info
here - projects, tutorials, catalogs, manuals, links, etc.
- OWWM.com - Old
Woodworking Machines: good info on post drills here
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Online Woodworking
Dictionary: Sam Allen
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Plane Iron
Tests: Brent Beach
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Practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor
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Search OldTools Archive using Google
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Sagulator - Shelf Sag
Calculator
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Search Old Tools Archives with Google
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Shrinkulator --
calculate shrinkage for different kinds of wood
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Sindelar Tool Museum
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Sketchup 3-D drawings of Antique Tools
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Sketchup Handtool Objects
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Sketchup Handtools Library
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Sketchup 3D Warehouse
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Shotgun Patent
Searching Tool
- Tool Condition Ratings
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Tool Condition
Ratings -- Table from Fine Tool Journal
- The
Toolemera Press
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Type Studies
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Wood Handbook: Forest Products Laboratory - USDA Forest Service
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WoodCentral's Article & Reviews
- Woodwork
Notebook - Jeff Gorman West Yorkshire, UK
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Woodworking Hand Tools: 1900-1950
- WKFineTools.com:
"Dedicated to woodworking tools of the past, their makers, and users of these
tools"
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Wood
Hand Tools and Techniques
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Wood Species Information
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Woodworking at Rex Mill: RareBear's Hand Plane Resource Page
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Woodworking Channel: Live woodworking shows
- Woodworking Online: See podcasts here!
Information Topics:
Making Your Own Tools:
Sawing:
Hand Saw Sharpening (Filing)
Chisels:
Carving:
Drilling/Boring:
HowTo:
Planing:
Marking
Measuring
Scraping:
Sharpening:
Shaping (files, rasps, spokeshaves)
Turning:
Clamping
Hammers and Mallets
Projects and Plans
Blogs:
Blacksmithing:
Chairmakers:
Handcrafted Furniture Makers:
Tool Restoration Techniques:
Workbenches and vises:
Tool Chests/Cabinets
Wrenches (not necessarily woodworking, but oh
well....)
Galoot Home Pages:
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Bob Key's Woodworking Shop: Good ideas for tool storage cabinets
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Bill Bohl: Some tools
for sale here also
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Bill's Tool Rest: Old tool use, cleaning, restoration, buying, selling,
and projects.
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Bill's Wood Shop: Very nice furniture project ideas here.
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Brian Wlch (SawNutz): Buck, Witherby, Simonds, and links to
others.
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Buckey's
Virtual Shop: Brian Buckner's handmade tools
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Charlie's Diversions:
improving a Stanley 80 scraper
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Charlie Rogers
- Galoot: great projects and dissertation on shellac
- Chris
Billman's Woodworking Web Site
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Christopher Swingley: several handmade tools: bench
plane,framesaw,lathe,router plane
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Chuck Zitur
(deceased) toolchuck.com
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Clif's Woodworking
Portal
- Cornish Workshop
(UK): Much excellent information on making and using old tools
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Derek Cohen -- In The Woodshop
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Doug Hepler: Apprentice
Woodworker's Notebook
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Estuary: Larry
Holland - hand tool projects, blacksmithing, citric acid, etc.
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Frank Sronce - Galoot: Great display of router planes
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Galoot's
Progress: Tom Price
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George Langford -- George's Basement: Great type studies on drills, and
LOTS of great tips, etc.
- Gordon
Muster -- OldToolUser's ToolBench: Great type studies here on Stanley
planes also -- with pictures.
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greenwoodworking: John Alexander: "Make a chair from a Tree."
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Highland House
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ilovewood.com: good info here on handmade tools. Also checkout Alburnam's
Archive! -- Cold Japanning Formula!
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James
Thompson - Old Millrat: A wealth of knowledge about old tool use,
restoration, and projects.
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Jay's Woodworking Page:
Old tool resource pages. Router planes, bench planes, Disston catalog
- Jim
Yehle's Lame Home Page: Info on making Infill Planes
- Joe's Bucket 'O
Rust
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John J Black
- John's
Wood Shop: a woodworking pastor
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Jonathan Peck's awesome tool collection
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Keith S. Rucker -
Cabinetmaker
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Ken Vaughn's
Workshop: See "Hand Tool" section. Also great Storage ideas.
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Ken Vaughn's Planes
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Lee Thomas's Restored Tools
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Louis Michaud's handmade bowsaws and dovetail plane
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mark.sweigart - Mark's
Woodworking
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Mark van Roojen's Woodworking Page
- Matt
Sanfilippo Woodworking Blog
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Mike and
Norma's Woodworking Projects: Nice toolboxes, etc.
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Nichael Cramer's
Woodworking
- None
Such Tool Werks: pictures of recast tools
- Norse
Woodsmith: how to make planes, chisel handles, and lots of other hand
tools.
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Old Toolin' :
Because ya never know what you might find...
- Olde Tools Shop:
Tony Seo's site: Tons of great info here - projects, tutorials, catalogs, manuals, links, etc.
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OldToolUser's ToolBench by Gordon Muster
- Paul Morin's Cranial
Storage Blog
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PhilsVille: Home of Woodworking, Philly Style! (UK)
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Peter Hyde
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Sawdust and Shavings - Woodworking Tools, Projects and Hardwood Information
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Sawduster's place
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Scott Grandstaff
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Scott's Stuff: Hand-made tools and restored tools
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Shavings and
Sawdust: Roy Griggs: Some good hand tool projects, and hand made tools.
- Shop Tours
from the Wood Working Groups
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Softorchestra Woodworking
Also see: Saws
- Sydnas Sloot: Tools for sale
and other things
- Taiwan
Woodworker Blog
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The Workshop of T.J.
Mahaffey
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http://tomscatalog.org
- ToolTrip --
Stan Faulin: Stanley Combination planes, miter boxes, Sargent tools, etc.
- Tool Stuff:
Projects, hand-made tools, chisel handles, etc.
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Tom Price's
List O' Links
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Traditional Tools:
Roger Nixon
- Wood
Shepherd - Galoot Woodworking: Mack McKinney
- Woodwork
Notebook - Jeff Gorman West Yorkshire, UK: A priceless collection of
knowledge of woodworking techniques using old hand tools.
- The
Workshop Pages: Electronic copies of many old woodworking books.
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W. Webber -- owner of
Highland House
History of Specific Manufacturers:
History and Information on Old Tools:
- A2A - Access To
Archives: British Archives. Enter "planemaker"
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Alloy Artifacts Tool History
Page: Wrenches from the 20th century (good Plomb info here!)
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American
Artifiacts
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Articles about Tools
(by Tony Murland)
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Blood and Sawdust -
Essays on Early Modern Woodworking, Furniture, Material Culture, and
Reenactment
- Blue Ox
Millworks, Authentic Historic Reproductions and Fine Custom Woodworking.:
Eureka, CA ?
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Classical Molding
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Craftsman Magazine (c.1901) by Gustav Stickley
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Craftsman
Perspective: History of the Arts and Crafts Movement -- 1895-1920
- DATAMP - Directory of American Tool
and Machinery Patents
- Fine Tool
Journal-The Most Comprehensive Resource On Hand Tools
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Great American
Craftsmen Home Page: video of Tinsmithing recommended
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H.D. Smith
and Company: Perfect-handled tools
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History of
Forestry - The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious
explanatory text
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History
of the Craftsman Movement
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H. O. Studley Masonic Tool Chest:
Great pictures of Studley's famous tool chest
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Homestead Heritage: Waco, TX
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Jointer's Bench:
Great info on all kinds of old tools, their use and care, and the old Trade
names
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Medieval & Renaissance Woodworking
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Mercer Museum: An eccentric old tool collector
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Millers Falls Old Catalogs
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Millers Patent Plow Planes
- Museum of
Woodworking Tools
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Davistown Museum: Specializing in old tools used in Maine.
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MWTCA: Articles
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On Become Unplugged: from MotherEarth News
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Primitive Technology,
Traditional Skills and Hand-Made Tools
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Robby Pedersen: RVP~1875 -
Story City, Iowa: Makes all furniture like they did in 1875
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Roots of "Yankee" Screwdrivers
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Rose
Antique Tools old tools and history: many old catalogs scanned in.
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RVP~1875 - Story City, Iowa:
Tool collection from 1875
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Search Engine for
Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.
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Stanley 1898 Pocket Catalog
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Tales of a Boat
Building Apprentice -- Sag Harbor
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Taylor Sawmill technical explanation
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Tool Chest of H. O. Studley:
Massachusetts piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over
the course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company (late 1800's).
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Vintage Internet
Patent Reproductions
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Witherby Tools
History
- Wooden
Clamps, Hand Screws, and Related Tools
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Woodworking in the
Viking Age
Mailing Lists /
Forums / Discussion Groups:
Old Tools For Sale:
New "Old" Hand Tools For Sale
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ADRIA TOOLWORKS
Handsaws, ECE planes, ECE Bowsaws (best bowsaw?)
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ANANT
Carpentry Tools - Iron Bodied Bench Planes: now making reproductions of
45, 113, 778, etc.
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Anderson Planes
- Ashem
Crafts Rotary Planes
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Bad Axe Tool Works -
Services and Tools for the Discriminating Woodworker
- Blue
Spruce Toolworks: Maker of quality woodworking tools - marking knives, awls,
chisels
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Blum Tool Company -
Unique Designs for Quality Tools
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Borg 9 1/2" Block Plane-Woodenboat Publications
- Bridge
City Tool Works
- Czeckedge -
Hand Tool Works: beautiful marking knives and awls. Also kits
available.
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Chester Toolworks:
Marking knives, awls, bowsaws, plane hammers
- Chris
Vesper Tools Quality Australian Woodworking Tools: Awesome marking and
layout tools from 28-year-old tool maker
- Clark &
Williams, makers of fine traditional wooden planes
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Classic Hand Tools
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Craftsman Studio - Fine Tools and Books: Best prices on Hock blades
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CSH Hardware: Recommended
for Ball Bearing Drawer Slides
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DICK GmbH Onlineshop: German company
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Diefenbacher Tools: German and Austrian chisels, etc.
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di Legno Woodshop Supply
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Dragon Hand-cut Rasps at Stewart-MacDonald: Highly recommended and a
little cheaper than Nicholson
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Drozs Olde Tyme
Stanley Totes and Knobs
- Fine Tool
Journal-The Most Comprehensive Resource On Hand Tools
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Galoot-Tools™ - Plane
Blades -- nice laminated blades, custom made, expensive. Also
diamond sandpaper
- Garrett
Wade
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Hamler Tools Blog
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Hand_Tool_Makers: Toolemera Press -- List of known contemporary tool
makers
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Handmade Plane Cutters by Jim Reed: reasonably priced carbon steel plane
blades
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Handmade
Woodworking Tools (some plans available too)
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Harbor Freight Buying Guide: The Good Enough, The Bad and the Abysmal
- Harris
Tools: Precision in Wood - Hand Tools for the Refined Craftsman
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Highland Hardware -
Tools for Woodworking
- Hock Tools:
Blades for Planes and Hand Woodworking Tools
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HNT Gordon
Wooden Planes (Australia) -- lots of good tips on planing here also
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Kansas City Tool Works:
beautiful spokeshaves, blades
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Knight Toolworks: great wood planes
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Lie Nielson
tools at lower cost from Fine Tools Journal
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Lee Valley Tools -
Woodworking Tools, Supplies, Books
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Marcou
Planes ... from New Zealand
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Best Price on Nicholson 49/50 cabinet makers
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MidwayUSA
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Norse
Woodsmith
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Olson Saw Frames and Blades: The best coping saws
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Phil Koontz
hand-forged Holdfasts from Alaska
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Philly
Planes -- Hand made wooden planes and parts to make them
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Replacement
Tote and Knob at The Best Things
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Rock River Wood Werks: Beautiful hand-carved bowsaws
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Sauer &
Steiner Toolworks
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Shepherd Tool
Company,Maker of Fine Hand Tools: Wooden plane kits (hollows & rounds too)
[OUT OF BUSINESS??]
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Spare Parts for Woodworking Tools at Tool Bazaar Scotland
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St. James
Bay Tool Co.: Also make Stanley reproduction parts.
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Stewart-MacDonald:
Everything for building and repairing stringed instruments!
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Tennessee
hickory wood replacement handles
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The Best Things - Where the
Connoisseur Shops: good price on Stanley Plane knobs and totes.
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THE TOOL FOOL -
Replacement parts for Stanley planes
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Tools
for Working Wood
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Traditional Woodworker:
Top quality new hand tools for sale.
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Victor
Machinery - Metalworking tools and supplies -- discount tools -- source
of files
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Wenzloff
& Sons -- Saws: Kits available for less!
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Windsor Institute
- Catalog - Tools
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wkTools.com: Vintage and Antique Tools. Buy Tools that Work!: Beautiful
restored MF hand drills (also sells parts)
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Woodcraft
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Wood Joy Tools
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Yankee Screwdriver Bits (Highland Hardware)
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Yankee Screwdrivers & Bits - Lee Valley Tools: Phillips and square drive
also (made in Japan)
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Yankee bit holders (set Drive Type to "Yankee")
Japanese Tools
Online Videos and Books
Books and DVDs
EBooks -- old books scanned and archived
Old Tool Associations:
Furniture
Fasteners and Hardware
Toolboxes
Woodworking Schools
Finishes
Sources for Buying Wood
-
California Custom Milling | California Urban Lumber: Saw Mill in
Martinez, CA
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Exotic Hardwoods &
Discount Rare Woods from South America
- Mount Storm
Forest Products in Windsor
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Gilmerwood in Oregon $100
min.: See their "Giant Menu" for descriptions and pictures of different
species
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Green Waste Recycle
Yard - recycling of salvaged and reclaimed urban trees -- in Berkely
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Internet Lumber | Home: Good pictures and description of different woods
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Wall Lumber Co., Quality
Hardwoods and Plywoods For The Craftsman
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Alowood Engineered Hardwood
- M&G
Sawmill Rough Cut Hardwood, Oak, Mesquite, Walnut, Pecan, Aromatic Cedar
-- good source of Mesquite
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Exotic Hardwood Lumber: In Phoenix, AZ !
- Woodfinder
:: Find Sources for Hardwood Lumber, Exotic Wood, Veneer, Sawmill Services
and Other Woods such as Tonewoods, Recycled Lumber& Salvaged Wood, Carving
Stock and Turning Blanks.
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Tropical Exotic
Hardwoods of Latin America, LLC - Cocobolo & Bocote Specialty Shop
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Woodworking with Pallets: A Guide to Finding, Breaking Down and Building with
Pallets
Wood ID
Glue/Adhesives
Abrasives:
Magazines & Books
Miscellaneous
Veneer
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OLD LINKS -- not categorized yet (some may be dead)
- Scratch
Stock
- BIT BRACES
- Traditional Woodworker:
Top quality new hand tools for sale.
- Hand
Tool Knowledge Base
-
Tom
Holloway's handmade Holdfasts
- Antique woodworking tools, an
online shop and auction house for hand tools collectors - Classic Tools
- The Shepherd Tool Company:
Infill plane kits
- St. James Bay Tool Co.
- Bob Brode - Antique Backsaws
- Hartville Tools;Wood Working
Tools:hand tools
- Museum of Woodworking
Tools Store
- Adria
Dovetail Saw - Make Precise Hand-Cut Dovetails
- The
Woodworking Catalog: Hand Tools
- Woodworker's Supply
- How to make
mortises by hand
- Pictures of Treadle Lathe
and HandMade Chairs
- Jon Zimmers Antique
Tools: Want Ads and For Sale Ads also
- Cleaning and
Refinishing Wooden Planes (German site)
- Sizing
Hollows and Rounds
- Tom
Price's Millers Falls Plane Patents
- The ToolBox: UK
Auction site.
- fine-tools.com: Good
prices on quality Japanese planes -- recommended!
- Ashley Isles
Woodcarving Tools: Highly recommended! (in the UK)
- kmstools.com: Pfeil
Woodcarving Tools at Canadian prices
- Louis
Michaud: Info on making planes and bowsaws
- Luther's Mercantile: In
Healdsburg!! Guitar-making tools and supplies (recommended Hungarian
rasps.)
- Meeker's Patented
Antiques: Stanley Planes and more
- Custom
Plane Knobs and Totes
-
Saw
Set and Vintage Tool Museum Library
-
Stanley
Plane Dating Flowchart
- Old Tool
Heaven
- handamerican.com
Leather strops and honing supplies
- HyperKitten.com:
Hand tool info and hand tool projects. Info on making a frame saw, etc.
- Museum of
Woodworking Tool Store
- Sandy Moss Tools
for sale -- good reputation
-
Bill
Marlowe -- PlaneMaker: Beautiful work!
- Old Tools for sale
at reasonable prices
- home.xnet.com/~rcallen:
Info on making planes and lots more.
- Georges Basement:
Type studies on MF #2 drills and much more.
- HNT Gordon: Australian maker
of wooden hand planes
- Japanese Woodworking Tools
(reportedly cheaper and faster than Japan Woodworker.)
- Good
Cross-reference for Plane numbers used by different manufacturers
- How
to Make Shaker Boxes with hand tools: Also good info on how to
resaw with a framesaw.
- ECE Wood Planes and
Frame saw blades, etc.
- antiquetools.co.uk:
Antique tool information and auction in England.
- The Electronic
Neaderthal: The place on the net for all things hand
tool related
- Stanley
BedRock Plane Type Study
- Eric von
Sneidem's Disstonian Institute Online Reference to Disston Saws
- Dave's Galoot
Lutherie: Info on Instrument-making planes and French
Polishing. Also an excellent discussion of old Arkansas sharpening stones
- The
CUTTING EDGE, Inc-Woodworker's Tool & Supply
- How
to make a number 4 scraper plane
-
Stanley
Planes Model Reference:Number: Quick
Reference by model #
-
Stanley
Planes Model Reference:Type Quick
Reference by Type
- Mechanics
of Planing
- OldTools
Mailing List Biographies
- The
Shaving Pony Page
-
1942
Disston Saw Catalog - Handsaws: ID
Disston saws by their handles
- The
Bay Area Galoots FAQ
- How
To Fix Yankee #2101 brace ratchets
-- with pictures !!
- Hand
Saw Sharpening: Recommended Video by
Tom Law
-
Bridge
City Tool Works, Inc.
- Boggs Tool
Processing & File Sharpening Co.:
They even sharpen files!
- The
Handsaw FAQ
- A
Millers Falls Page
- Kano Home Page:
Recommended stuff for freeing up rusted parts on tools.
- TRINDERS'
FINE TOOLS - NORRIS PLANES - A GUIDE
- ALP
Productions Home Page: Video tapes
for Galoots
- Home
of the Miller's Patent
- The
Great Adirondack Tool Co.
- Electroplating,
Plating, Polishing and Buffing Chrome & Nickel.
- All
Auction Directory - An Online Auction Site For Antique Tools
- BLADEMASTER
LEATHER HONES & CONTINUOUS BELTS
- Welcome to
Zona Tool Company on the Web!: Good
Cheap ($6) Dovetail Saw
- Tool Chuck: Excellent site on
Boring Tools
- Tool
Chests: A Virtual Exhibition:
Smithsonian Museum Tool Exhibit
- Type
Study of Millers Falls #2 Eggbeater drills
- Welcome to
Vintage Saws! Disston saws and
Simonds saw files;file handles
- The NeanderWebSite
- Neanderthal
Haven: Old tool discussion group
- for
sale:Good prices on used hand tools
- W.F.
& J. Barnes Hand-Crank Ripsaw
- Quicklap:
Method for lapping soles of planes
- Fine,
Traditional Wooden Planes by Clark & Williams
- Diefenbaucher
Tools: Nice German chisels (maker
for Buck Bros?)
- The
Hawley Project-- Preserving old
English tools
- Rocky
Mountain Tool Collectors
- Mid-West Tool
Collectors Association
- The
Bay Area Galoots FAQ
- TOOLTALK Home
Page
-
Saw
Sets and Vintage Saw Tool Museum:
"Home for orphaned saw sets"
- The
Slippery Slope, A Guide to Old Hand Tools:
Millers Falls Miter Boxes, cross-ref for Millers Falls,
Stanley, Record, and Sargent planes.
- Stanley
Bed Rock Plane Types - Bob Kaune - Antique & Used
Tools
- Disston 1914
Catalog Reprint: Good info on
Disston hand saws
- Tool Trip:
Antique tools. Also reproduction Stanley 45 parts here,
links to galoot sites. Also instruction booklets for old
Stanley tools -- sawsets & miter boxes, etc.
- Robert Larson
Company: Woodworkers tools and supplies
- Old
Tools Resources: aka "George's Basement"
- Feine
Werkzeuge - Dieter Schmid - Frame saws:
German Frame saws and blades
- OldTools Mailing List
- Hand Forged
Tools: Adze, drawknife, chisels.
Expensive but nice.
-
www.right-tool.com:
Hand woodworking tools
-
Tools
for Sale -- Bob Brode
- Hand
Saw Sharpening: Video for sale
- The
Stanley Gage Page: Stanley marking
guages -- everything you want to know.
-
Irwin_Manual:
Original Irwin manual on How to Select, Use, and sharpen
auger bits.
- Spokeshave Blades:
Spokeshave blades and how-to-sharpen instructions
- How
to Keep Plane Totes from Breakin'
-
Sharpening
hand saws: Lots of good info here from Bob Brode
- Martin J.
Donnelly Antique
Tools:
- Mounting
the Planes: How to hang planes in a
cabinet
- The
Galoot's Progress
- Saw Set
Museum Links To Old Tool and Fine WoodWorking Sites
- The
Stanley Bench Plane Page:
Information on Types and lots of other stuff
- OldToolUser's ToolBench
hosted by Gordon Muster
- Dave's
Shaves Reproduction Wooden Spokeshaves:
Spokeshave kits with Hock irons
- PLANE
MAKING: From College of the Redwoods in Mendocino
- Popular
Mechanics Home Improvement - Furniture Making
-
TeachShave
by John Gunterman: How to make a
spokeshave
- Eze-Lap Diamond
Products, Inc.: Diamond stones
without "pock-marks"
- Bessey
Clamps - James Morton - American Clamping
- Vise
Grip Tool Home Page
- Hock Tools:
Blades and Such for Planes and More
- Buy Hock
Blades from Japan Woodworker (price is same and shipping is less.)
- shavings.net:
Previously "The Apprentice Neanderthal" (John Gunterman)
- TOOLS 'n
RULES - ANTIQUE TOOLS
- Welcome to
Cape Forge!: Hand forged woodworking tools -- made one at a time
- Old
Tools Group: Good info on Tool
History
- Rusty Tool Restoration with
Electrolysis, Plane Japaning, Saw sharpening: And Many other tool
restoration topics
- USE
AND PREPARATION OF SCRAPERS
- A Woodwork Notebook - Jeff
Gorman
- The
Electronic Neanderthal Woodworker:
URL's for most Wood companies
- The
Japan Woodworker On Line Catalog of Fine Woodworking
Tools
- The Superior
Works: Buying and Selling antique
hand tools
- Spokeshave
's Home Page: Hand Woodworking Info
- Museum of
Woodworking Tools
-
Millers Falls Bench Planes
-
The Superior Works - Patrick's Blood
& Gore:
Info on Antique Stanley Planes
Wood:
- Northern Hardwoods:
Located in Santa Clara?
- Information about all
American Hardwood Species
- Wood
Central's Splendid Splinters: Good descriptions of some exotic woods
- The Woodbox
Database: Good information on many species of woods
- HARDWOODS
OF YUMA: Hardwood from Arizona
- Wood
turnings, table legs, kitchen legs, bed posts, and custom
turnings from Osborne Wood Products
- Black
Walnut Sale. Pennsylvania Black Walnut!
- LMI Home Page:
Luthier's mercantile. Exotic woods, tools, adhesives, etc.
- A & M
Wood Specialty: Canadian exchange
rate is favorable!
- Woodworkers
Source: Recommended hardwood store
in Arizona! (amazing...)
- http://www.lumberforsale.com/
- Tropical
Exotic Hardwoods Of Latin America
- EcoTimber:
The leading distributor of responsibly harvested timber
products in the U.S.: in Berkely
- WoodFinder
- Appalachian
Millwork & Lumber Company: Nice
Wood Identification Images
- Welcome
to Hawaiian Hardwoods Direct.: Koa
wood
- Midwest
Dowel Works, Inc. -- Home Page
- A
& M Wood Specialty: Price List ($US)
- Copeland
Hardwoods - Flooring
- How
to Order Lumber: Surfaced wood
dimensions
- California
Hardwoods - Burls, Flooring, Gallery, Gunstocks, Lumber,
Turning Squares and Custom Milling Services:
Near Sacramento
- Woodworkers
Source offers woodworking enthusiasts over 100 quality
hardwoods from around the world.
- Quality
Woodwork & Supply, Inc. Home Page
- ANDERSON
INTERNATIONAL TRADING: Home of
ApplePly (American version of Baltic Birch)
- Wall Lumber:
Highly recommended hardwood supplier -- Good Prices !!
- Michigan
Maple Block ~ Bally Block Co.: Maple
table (workbench) tops
- Woodworkers
Source 100 quality hardwoods (Phoenix:
half local cost, UPS)
- Koa,
Hawaiian Hardwoods
- Beyond
Waste Main: Recycled Building
Materials in Sonoma County
- Cabinet
Factory: Recommended place to buy
raised panel cabinet doors(WI)
- MapleLeaf
Hardwoods
- Empire
Hardwoods
- Black
Mountain Northwoods
- Fine
Veneer from Woodstock
Classes
Projects Ideas and Plans:
Workbenches and Vises:
Discussion Groups / Forums:
Magazines, Books, Video Tapes and TV
programs:
Sharpening:
Abrasives:
Finishing:
Wood Turning:
Wood Carving:
Shop Design and Arrangement:
Associations and
Organizations Woodworking
Homepages
Personal Woodworking
Homepages
- Michael Egbert Furniture Maker:
Hand-Crafted Customer Furniture
- OldToolUser's ToolBench
hosted by Gordon Muster
- Peter McBride
Antique and Old Tools
- Rich's place
- Roy Griggs - Woodworker
- Peter Hyde -- British
woodturning, hand tools, motorcycles
- Stuart Ablett's
Workshop: Intriguing "dungeon" in the basement of a parking garage in
Japan.
- Vanguard's Home Page: Lots of
projects and pictures. Good power tool reviews.
-
Workbench 2.2: a bench like mine with a board jack that works with it.
- Bob
Waltenspiel's Woodworking page
- San Diego Fine Woodworking Society
- W. Patrick Edwards
Marquetry Information
-
Woodworking: Tom Holloway's home web site (hand forged holdfasts!)
- Country
Workshop Woodworking School
- Green
Woodworking Plans for a simple shaving horse
- Bucky's Page O' Tools: [Brian
Buckner] GREAT pictures of handmade tools -- planes, router plane, stair
saw, framesaws, spokeshaves, etc.
- Swingley
development: Good info on using old hand tools and making tools
(framesaw)
- Sandy Moss:
Lotsa good tools for sale also
- Old Tool
Heaven
- Bill's
Woodshop
- WoodButchering
with Scott
- Bob's Woodworking Shop:
Good ideas for tool cabinets
- I Love Wood
- Alburnam's Archive:
Excellent historical articles on traditional woodworking techniques
- Silas Kopf:
Beautiful woodworking with Marquetry
- Wood-butchering
with Scott: How to make chisel handles, planes, and more.
- Pete Tukit : A
woodworking Treatise
- Roger's Woodworking Page:
Pictures of a frame saw
- Cowtown
Eriic's Web page: Brace chucks, Robertson screwdrivers, laminate, etc.
- The Windsor Institute:
Mike Dunbar's Windsor Chair-making school.
- Southwest Tool Collector's Association
(SWTCA) Good list of Woodworking Links
- RosewoodAndBrass.com:
Copies of original Stanley publications, etc.
- A
Galoot and his Shop: Steve Reynold's shop
- Ken Greenberg:
Ken's woodworking page
- Ken Greenberg's
Pictures:Activities, projects, tools
- College of the Redwoods
Furniture: James Krenov and students
- Matthew
Groves: The Rational Artisan
- Mendocino
Coast Furniture Makers
-
Mike and Norma's Woodworking Projects: Great toolbox ideas. Custom plane
totes
- Kelly Cox's Place
- Keith Rucker's page: old photos of historic woodshops
- Tim Swihart Projects: spokeshaves, bowsaw, and steam-bending
setup.
- Keith Rucker's Shop
- OldTools resources edited by George
Langford, Sc.D.
- http://134.88.12.107/wood/tools/projects.htm: Sanford Moss -- nice stuff built from
pallets
- The Jointer's Bench: Nice pictures of building projects
with antique hand tools.
- San
Diego Fine Woodworkers Association
- Mark van Roojen's Woodworking Page: Scanned Goodell-Pratt and Ohio tool
catalogs.
- Jeff Gorman's Home Page: nice chairs, bookcase, and good info
on hand-planing an edge square, straightening a twisted
board with a hand plane.
- Xmundt's Woodworking Page
- John's Woodworking Page
- Old Tools Resources Edited by George
Langford, Sc.D.
- Bob Brode -- Woodworking
- Steve's Shop: Nice idea for a hand tool cabinet
- Ken Vaughn: Very nice. Lots of pictures and info
here; good bench accessory ideas.
- Fissel's Wood Page: This may contain a list of home pages
for OLDTOOL galoots. Also some good recommendations on
hand tool purchases and furniture books.
- My Photo Album: Jay Pagona
- Bob's Woodworking Shop: Nice workbench and handtool cabinet
- Woodworkingpage
- Tom's Woodworking Hobby
- Andrew's
Woodworking Home Page
- Grampa's Workshop - Woodworking,
Projects, Free Plans
Making Musical
Instruments:
General Info:
-
List of Links
-
Popular Woodworking Magazine Select Articles: Good hand tool project
info here also.
- rec.woodworking's
ANTI-FAQ
-
Thread Identification Chart
- Woodworking Online:
Woodworking Intro E-book
- Better Woodworking Guide &
Directory
- Gene Wengert - The Wood
Doctor
- WoodNet Forums
-
College of the Redwoods fineFURNITURE
- BAG (Bay
Area Galoots) FAQ page
- BAG-a-thon pictures
- Badger Pond: Homepage
-- lots of good hand tool and old tool info here.
- Michael
Field's Eclectic Interests: Interesting history of woodworking and
windmills
- How
to dry wood yourself: both air and kiln drying
- Tips
from past Lee Valley catalogs on various woodworking topics
- Woodworkers
Exchange: Place to post tools for sale
- Why
Power Tools are better than hand tools: :-)
- How
to Deal with Wood Movement: Good
info from Wood Online magazine
- Myths
of Grounding PVC Dust Collection Systems
- rec.woodworking
FAQ
- Woodworker's
Journal Online: Fantastic set of
Links to Woodworking pages
- Wood
Handbook, FPL-GTR-113 -- An
enclopedia of information
- Woodworking:
Thoughts and Ideas -- Good Hand Tool
Use Information
- Woodworking
Basics: Classes Index: Free online
woodworking classes
- Welcome to
MSC Industrial Supply Co., Let Us Be Your Warehouse!
- Forest
Products Laboratory
- books
on antiques, collectibles: Good
Stanley hand tool books
- Welcome
to WoodshopDemos.com
- RemarQ:
can get to alt.binaries.pictures.furniture here
- Messages:
WoodCentral Message Boards
- Woodworking
at the WWA
- Irion
Company Furniture Makers Home Page
- WoodCentral's
Shop Shots
- Stans
Woodshop: Woodworking Models, Wooden Crafts and Plans
- rec.woodworking
FAQ
- SHOP
NEWS: Charging Nicad batteries
- The WWA
Search Engines: Search for WW
articles
- Making
Sense of Sandpaper: a
FineWoodworking article
- Mail
Order Companies - Hand Tools, Power Tools, Hardware and
Supplies
- Waterfront
Woods: Assoc. Editor for American
Woodworker Magazine
- Nordfab:
Dust Collector Info
- Article
Search Form: Woodworkers Website
Association Search Engine
- AWG:
Annapolis Woodworkers Guild
- Cutting
Crown Moulding with Compound Miter Saws
- A
Woodworker's Notebook Home Page
- KITCHENET
RESOURCE KITCHEN CABINET PAGES:Excellent
Info!!
- European
vs. Traditional Cabinet Construction
- Stile
and Rail Door Construction
- Van
Dyke's Restorers - Supplies for Woodworkers and Antique
Restorers
- Delta Cad -
Shareware CAD program: Highly
recommended and cheap!
- Woodworking:
Customwood Cabinet Door company
- Scherr's
Cabinet and Doors
- Cabinet
Factory: cabinet doors,dovetail,drawer
- Woodworking
References by Wooden Reflections
- Woodworking
Hobby
- Wood
Auction: Tools, Supplies, Lumber,
etc. on auction
- ANDERSON
INTERNATIONAL TRADING: Baltic Birch
Source
- BnPWOOD:
Husband & Wife EE's with Woodworking hobby -- Very
Nice pictures of their completed projects
- A
Wood Miser's Index Of Topics
- Top
ten woodworking sites
- Woodworking at
WOODWEB
- NetForum
- Woodworking Questions and Answers
- rec.woodworking
tidbits: rec.woodworking FAQs
- Links
to Woodworking Web Sites
- Welcome
to Yankee Workshop! (NOT "New
Yankee Workshop")
- The Oak Factory
HomePage
- woodworking
(and hiding) in the garage: Good
list of URLs
- WOOD magazine Drill Press Speed Chart
- Helpful Tips for Machinists, Inspectors
- Society of American Woodworkers
- Hardwood, Plywood and Veneer Terms
- woodfind web page: computer program to find wood articles
- All you ever wanted to know about
outhouses: you won't beleive this...
- ToolNews.com Archives:
See Hand Tool section
Jim Boyett
boyett@sonic.net
