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Luther's Tool Grinders 1920 Trade Catalog

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Luther's Tool Grinders, Trade Catalog No. 31  One of my very favorite trade catalog covers and one of my favorite tool makers: Luther Dimo-Grit Grinders, Catalogue No. 31, Luther Grinder Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The cover is pure Art Deco, early Machine Age advertising art. It doesn't get any better than this one. I've owned a number of Luther grinders, including the Best Maide top of the line. All are beasts. Many have machined helical gears, precision machined ways and tight oil fittings. I started with one of those German hand grinders that Woodcraft used to sell, then switched to Luther. Admittedly, in general I prefer older tools. The pdf is housed in my Google Drive account as a free download. You can also find this pdf at the Internet Archive. Same pdf, different sites. Your choice. Luther Tool Grinders Trade Catalog 1920
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Let's Talk Frame Saws

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Let's talk frame saws. Common enough in Europe, uncommon in the United States, the frame saw is typically seen as a simple wooden frame for holding a blade that looks as if it was chopped from a bandsaw blade. Frame saws are incredibly useful tools. Capable of ripping, crosscutting, cutting on a curve and more depending on the blade and frame configuration. Fellow saws and turning saws are but two of the less common variations. Herewith three pages from the Peugeot Freres 1938 catalog, formerly of my collection. You can find the entire catalog along with a trade marks list and an Archive trade catalog. You can find the full catalog and more in this blog post .
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Ship Builders Schooner Hull Cabinet Card c1880

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Ship Builders Schooner Hull Cabinet Card c1880  From my blog archives November 13, 2007 This particular image is a Cabinet Card that holds more than it appears to. On the surface, it's a rare image of a ship under construction. On close examination, things get fuzzy. First off, there are two small triangular black areas at the bottom left and right hand corners. These tell me that this is an Albumen photograph (a photograph made with egg white, no bacon please) of a Tintype photograph (no tin, just a sheet of iron with a collodion coating... go figure). It was not uncommon for photographers to make copies of earlier images either for resale or by request. The Tintype would have been a full-plate, a rarity in and of itself. Most Tintypes that we see are actually sections of the full plate. Cost was a factor as well as the work involved in producing the larger image. Most full-plate or half-plate Tintypes are outdoor scenes. Back to this image. While found in New England, identifying...
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A. A. Woods & Sons Company - Makers Of Tools And Machinery - Trade Catalog

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Advertising circular from The A. A. Woods & Sons Company,  Atlanta, Georgia USA .  Early 20th century advertising from a famous maker of woodworking tools, The A. A. Woods & Sons Company. This two page, folded circular or handbill features speciality tools for the Wheelwright, the maker and repairer of wooden wheels for carriages and wagons.  Universal Tool Grinder No. 66 National Power Tool Grinder No. 55 Woods Universal Hollow Augers No. B1, No. B2 Woods Spoke Pointers No. C1, C2, C3 Colonial Williamsburg - The Wheelwright
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Rag Rug Weaving Family c1890 Cabinet Card - Looms - Weavers

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Rag Rug Weaving Family - c1890 Cabinet Card Photograph This set of two cabinet cards is unlike any I've ever seen. Period photos of weavers are unusual but are found. This set features a home based rag rug weaving family. Rag rugs consist of scrap or discarded cloth, sliced in narrow strips, loaded on a special shuttle and woven to create a sturdy and long wearing rug. Rag rugs were popular during the later part of the 19th century as affordable floor coverings. The set consists of a photo of the workroom and of the family. In the workroom can be seen four large and heavily built hand looms, a sewing machine and the entire family. A gas lamp hangs overhead. The shape of the workroom, the lamp and the wall paper leads me to identify this as a room in a home, likely the living room. The family photo is a typical posed cabinet card photo of a proud family. No doubt these were shot by a traveling photographer, taken on site and developed in the photographers traveling wagon.
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Introduction To Woodworking 1920 - An Anthology of William Fairham's Most Important Books ISBN: 9780989747752

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Introduction To Woodworking -  Anthology of The Essential Books of William Fairham Woodwork Tools And How To Use Them Woodwork Joints: How They Are Set Out, How Made And Where Used, Revised Edition The Woodworker Series by William Fairham Edited by J. C. S. Brough Evans Bros., Publishers, London ISBN: 9780989747752 U.S. • Buy Direct From Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org Amazon Publishing Affiliate Link “The Author of this volume is a man not only of wide experience in practical woodwork, but who has for many years been an Instructor at Technical Schools, and has also the additional advantage of having an intimate knowledge of all kinds of woodworking tools and machinery.” Early in the 20th Century, Evans Bros., London, England, engaged William Fairham to author and edit The Woodworker Series, books derived from The Woodworker journal. A practical woodworker trained in the late 19th Century skills of carpentry and woodworking, William Fairham later taug...
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Rhykenology Resources The Study Of Wooden Planes

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Rhykenology -  The Study Of Wooden Planes Facebook Group:  Rhykenology: The Study Of Wooden Planes Rhykenology - Resources Blogs and Sites Rhykenology - Toolemera Press Colonial Williamsburg Mother Plane Collection courtesy Frederick Rountree Wood And Shop Associations, Societies EAIA - Early American Industries Association TATHS - Tools And Trades Historical Society MWTCA - Mid West Tools Collectors Association PATINA - Potomac Antique Tools And Industries Association Commercial Planemakers Philly Planes : Phil Edwards J. Wilding - Reproduction Wood Hand Planes :  Red Rose Reproductions : Daniel Schwank Old Street Tool, Inc. : Larry Williams, Don McConnell Plane Making Supplies Two Cherries German Made Tools: Plane Irons Social Groups - Research, Collect, Buy & Sell FB - Rhykenology - The Study Of Wooden Planes FB - Rhykenology - The Sales Group FB - Doctrine Of Handy-Works FB - Can I Have It Vintage Tool Auction And Sales Group FB - E. W. Carpenter And Other Lancas...
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Recommended Reading - Frame-Up! The Story Of The People And Shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts. Ten Pound Island Book Company, Dana Storey 1986. ISBN: 0938459007

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Frame-Up! The Story Of The People And Shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts By Dana Story Frame-Up! The Story Of The People And Shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts.   Ten Pound Island Book Company, Dana Storey 1986. ISBN: 0938459007 "How unfortunate it is that we must so often wait until something is gone before appreciating it or even being aware of it. Generations of Essex people were born, lived and died amid the sounds of the shipyards: the caulking mallets, the sound of the axe and adze ringing against white oak, the millions of hammer blows, and the shouts of the men. At the time it was a part of their existence, like the air they breathed. Now that it is all gone we realize what a satisfying chorus it was and how silent the town is now." p.26 That paragraph explains why I value this book, re-reading it every few years. Dana Story was a son of Essex, of the Story family of shipwrights. His words include first and second person accounts as well as those stories told by the peo...
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Peugeot Freres Outils Montes Trade Catalog and Trade Marks - Wooden Planes

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Peugeot Freres Outils Montes Trade Catalogs and Trade Marks Trade marks of Peugeot Freres and Peugeot & Cie Peugeot Freres Trade Catalog Of Wooden Planes, etc. (from my google drive) Download or View Peugeot Freres Trade Catalog Of General Line Goods (Archive.org)
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Ambrotype of a Carpenter and Tool Cabinet - Wooden Planes - Chisels - Hand Saws -Bits -Braces

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Ambrotype:  Carpenter and his tool cabinet One of my favorite old photographs. An ambrotype of a carpenter and his tool cabinet. The tools look like a house framer's set. While I call this a tool cabinet, it might well be a portable tool cabinet for worksite travel. Underneath the ambrotype was a piece of paper upon which was penciled: "Oh, brother! When shall I see you again." Whether this note refers to a brother who has left on a trip west or to one who has passed, we'll never know. For more on ambrotypes, visit Ambrotype Wiki.
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Thompson Tool Co. Patent Bench Plane Trade Card - Metallic Woodworking Plane

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Trade Card:  Thompson Tool Co. -  Manufactures of Thompson's Pat. Bench Plane, &c., &c. -  North Chardon Street, Boston, Mass. -  George M. Thompson, Patentee Additional Thompson patents: Horse Car Coupling Belt Punch Countersink Bits Callipers Dividers Lemon Squeezers Egg Beaters Portable Blacksmith's Forges Memoranda: Patent Rights For Sale by William W. Forbes, 31 Exchange Street, Boston Improvements In Bench Planes: Patent No. 153, 339. July 21, 1874 See also DATAMP entry  
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Wooden Plane Maker Billhead Samuel H. Bibighaus Philadelphia PA 1861

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1861 Billhead of Samuel H. Bibighaus, Importer & Dealer In Hardware, No. 216 North Third Street Anvils, Vices, Scythes, Shovels, Spades, Cutlery with a general assortment of Hardware. Plane Manufactory
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c1840 Joiners' Tools Manufactured By John J. Bowles - Price List - Wooden Planes - Rhykenology

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Price List of Joiners' Tools, Manufactured By John J. Bowles, Main St. Hartford, Conn.  c1840 An exceedingly rare mid 19th century price list of Joiners' Tools, aka Wooden Moulding Planes John J. Bowles was a mid 19th century wooden plane maker working in Hartford, Conn. This price list provides an essential insight to both the types of wooden planes in demand and to their prices. 
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Hartford Clamp Company East Hartford, Conn. Trade Catalog c1940

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Hartford Clamps, Single And Double Steel Bar Clamps:  Quicker - Stronger - More Durable -  Catalog No. 60 & 61:  Manufactured By The Hartford Clamp Co., - 466 Park Avenue, East Hartford 8, Conn . c1940  PDF Download L ook for the famous Casket Makers Clamp
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Southern Steel Stamp And Die Works Saddler's Fine Stamps Tools And Machinery c1875 Trade Catalog

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Southern Steel Stamp And Die Works -  Saddler's Fine Stamps, Tools And Machinery -  364 Commerce Street, Dallas Texas. c1875 Illustrated Catalogue and Net Price List -  All The Latest And Most Popular Styles And Sizes Of Stamps Adapted To Stock Saddle Work, And The More Important Saddlers' And Harness Makers' Tools And Machinery Manufactured By The Southern Steel Stamp And Die Works, 364 Commerce St., Dallas Texas. F. K. Russell Proprietor PDF Download
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1875 Henry Disston & Sons Booklet and Catalog - The Hand-Saw

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The Hand-Saw. How To Use It, How To Choose It, And How To Keep It. Being A Series Of Practical Hints To Practical Mechanics.  By One Who Knoweth Whereoff He Speaketh.  1875 Henry Disston & Sons, Kystone Saw, Tool, And File Works, Front And Laurel Streets, Philadelphia, Penna. PDF Download
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1870 Charles H. Smith Wood-Working Machinery Catalogue - Trade Catalog

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Charles H. Smith's Illustrated Catalogue Of Wood-Working Machinery. 135 North Third Street, Philadelphia, PA. 1870 An extraordinarily rare trade catalog of 19th century American wood working machinery. Many of the machines are fully wood framed, a feature shortly to disappear during the advance of the industrial revolution.  PDF Download
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Arrowmammett Works Middletown Conn Bench Planes Price List Catalog 1858 - Wooden Planes - Rhykenology

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Catalogue And Price List Of Bench Planes And Moulding Tools, Also A List Of Boy's And Gentlemen's Tool Chests, Manufactured And For Sale At The Arrowmammett Works, Middletown, Conn. Charles H. Pelton, Printer 1858 PDF Download
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The New England Farrier by Paul Jewett of Rowley MA 1826 ISBN: 9780989747769

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The New England Farrier:  A Compendium Of Farriery, In Four Parts,  by Paul Jewett of Rowley, MA. 1826 ISBN: 9780989747769 U.S. • BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org First published in 1795 and remaining in print through 1840, The New England Farrier was the first book of Farriery to have been published in it's entirety within the Continental United States of America. The author, Paul Jewett of Rowley, MA, served in the Continental Army during the Revolution. The New England Farrier addresses the complete care of hooved livestock, including cows and goats. Not limited to hoof care, the text includes country vet remedies for common and uncommon livestock ailments. The New England Farrier includes a chapter devoted to the ills that might befall adults and children who might have little access to formal medical care. Gary Roberts, Toolemera Press publisher, returns to print classic books on early crafts, trades and industries. All titles are...
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Fret Sawing For Pleasure And Profit Henry T. Williams, New York, NY - 1877 ISBN: 9780982532911

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Fret Sawing For Pleasure And Profit -  Illustrated by 103 images of fret work patterns and tools. - Published by Henry T. Williams - New York, NY 1877 ISBN: 9781087809496 U.S. • BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org Fret Sawing For Pleasure And Profit, published by Henry T. Williams, New York, NY., 1877. Illustrated by 103 images of fret work patterns and tools. "Fret Sawing For Pleasure And Profit, is like those which have preceded it, a most excellent manual of the particular art which it pictures and describes. Beginning with a chapter devoted to materials and implements, it tells all about the proper kinds of wood to be used in Fret Sawing, their qualities and peculiarities. It gives illustrations and diagrams of tools and presses, furnishes a quantity of beautiful designs, and teaches how to gild, dye and stain wood to produce picturesque effects. There is also a chapter upon hand-carving, and easy directions for inlaying and over-laying, ...
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Working Drawings Of Colonial Furniture by Frederick J. Bryant 1922 - Manual Arts Press ISBN: 9780982532959

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Working Drawings Of Colonial Furniture by Frederick J. Bryant 1922 - Manual Arts Press ISBN: 9780982532959 U.S. - BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org "Because of the increasing demand for woodworking projects embracing the designs of the famous masters, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton, the author has endeavored to secure dimensioned sketches and photographs of old fashioned furniture." Frederick J. Bryant.  Active in the early 20th Century Manual Arts Education movement, Frederick J. Bryant sought out period furniture of "singular form and beauty". Working Drawings Of Colonial Furniture features measured drawings of original furniture found in local Maine towns. Included are working drawings of: Tables: Gate-leg; Card; Tea; Work; Tip-Top; Breakfast Tavern Clocks: Grandfather; Banjo Chairs: Windsor; Hepplewhite; Empire Mirrors: Colonial; Old Fashioned With notes on wood finishing Gary Roberts, Toolemera Press publisher, ret...
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Furniture Making Advanced Projects In Woodwork Ira S. Griffith 1912 ISBN: 9780983150015

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Furniture Making: Advanced Projects In Woodwork by Ira S. Griffith 1912. - Manual Arts Press   ISBN: 9780983150015 U.S. • BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org Amazon Publishing Affiliate Link "The purpose of all education is the better preparation of the student to meet his environment, present and probable future, as judged by society." Ira S. Griffith. A practical as well as theoretical educator, Ira S. Griffith was a leader in the Manual Arts Education movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His books for students and educators formed the groundwork of the evolution of Manual Arts and later Vocational Education. Furniture Making: Advanced Projects In Woodwork contains 51 exercises and measured drawings of projects ranging from basic books shelves through to the famous Morris Chair. Gary Roberts, Toolemera Press publisher, returns to print classic books on early crafts, trades and industries. All titles are produced from the o...
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The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making by David Denning 1891 ISBN: 9780982532980

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The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making: A Practical Handbook To The Construction Of Cabinet Furniture; The Use Of Tools, Formation Of Joints, Hints On Designing And Setting Out Work, Veneering, Etc.  by David Denning  1891   ISBN: 9780982532980 U.S. • BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org David Denning wrote four influential 19th century texts on: cabinet-making; fretwork; carving and finishing. His works were and are frequently quoted and referenced in books by woodworkers, for woodworkers. In print through numerous editions from the late 19th Century through the early 20th Century,  The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making  provides a thorough review of the tools and techniques of hand crafted cabinet-making as practiced during the 1800's, as evidenced by this period review: "Mr. David Denning's hand-book on The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making ... will be welcomed by amateurs and young craftsmen, and even experienced workman may der...
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Carpentry Made Easy Or The Art And Science Of Framing by William E. Bell 1858 ISBN: 9780989747783

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Carpentry Made Easy: Or, The Art And Science Of Framing by William E. Bell 1858 ISBN: 9780989747783 U.S. • BUY DIRECT from Toolemera Press U.S. • Bookshop.org U.K. • Bookshop.org Carpentry Made Easy; Or, The Art And Science Of Framing , was written by William E. Bell of Ottawa, Illinois and published by Howard Challen of Philadelphia in 1858. It remained in continuous publication through 1904, evidence of the book's importance to the architectural and building trades of the period. Carpentry Made Easy  was the first American architectural trade book to popularize the transition from heavy timber frame to light balloon frame construction. Although not the first book to introduce balloon frame construction, Bell's text was the first American technical book to thoroughly describe the method in such a way as to allow the skilled practical carpenter to readily apply this affordable building method. Included were the various major framing methods of the period for everything from s...
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