Reference Desk - Early Tools And Trades

The Reference Desk - Early Tools And Trades

The Reference Desk consists of contributor recommendations. If you have a link you would like to see here, please contact me.

NOTE: Some listings are Amazon Affiliate links

General References

• WrenchWiki
• Hand Plane Central
• VintageMachinery.org, formerly OWWM. 

Wooden Planes, aka Rhykenology

• The E. W. Carpenter Project and other Lancaster Cty, PA planemakers
• 1700's and 1800's Planemakers, Toolmakers of South Central Pennsylvania

Museums, Including Living History

• Mercer Museum
• Davistown Museum
• The Met Museum Online Texts
• Museum Of Early Trades And Crafts (New Jersey)
• Morris Museum, Smithsonian Affiliate: Guinness Collection of Mechanical Music & Automata
• Winterthur Museum - The Dominy Collection
• The Carpenter Magazine - University Of Maryland Digital Library

Companies

• Millers Falls and Goodell Pratt
• Stanley Works - Stanley Rule And Level Company
• I Remember New Britain (Facebook group)
• Stanley Pictorial Promotions 1860-1960
• The Superior Works aka Stanley Blood And Gore - Patrick Leach's Omnibus
• Bailey Type Study - The Plane Dealer

Books, DVDs, CDs

• The Directory Of American Toolmakers - EAIA (CD) Amazon Affiliate Link
• The Chronicle Of The Early American Industries Association 1933-2007 (DVD)
• Leonard Bailey And His Woodworking Planes (Hard Cover) Amazon Affiliate Link

Journals

• The Chronicle Of The Early American Industries Association 1933-2007 Amazon Affiliate Link
• The Gristmill - Mid West Tool Collectors Association
• Mortise & Tenon Magazine and Classes

Tool Catalogues & Books at Google Drive courtesy Gareth Richmond

• Tool Catalogues, Texts and Related publications

Online Public Access Books

• BnF Gallica: Explanation Or Key, To The Various Manufacturies Of Sheffield aka Smith's Key

Internet Archive

• Winterthur Collection - Internet Archive
• Building Technology Heritage Library
• International Tool Catalog Library
• Industrial Arts
• Manual Arts Education
• Manual Arts Press
• Slöjd
• Sloyd
• Henry Carey Baird, Publisher
• American Carpenter And Builder

Tool Collecting & History Groups

• Antique Spinning Wheels, Looms and Fiber Equipment - Facebook
• EAIA - Early American Industries Association
• MWTCA - Mid West Tool Collectors Association
• PATINA - Potomac Antique Tools And Industries Association
• PAST (Formerly Preserving Arts And Skills Of The Trades)
• LIATCA Long Island Antique Tools Collectors Association - Facebook
• PNTC Pacific Northwest Tool Collectors
• SHOT The Society For The History Of Technology
• TATHS Tools And Trades Historical Society

Online Forums & eMail Lists

• Lumberjocks Hand Tools Forum
• Woodnet Hand Tools Forum
• Sawmill Creek Neanderthal Haven

Living History Associations

• ALHFAM - Association of Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
• ALHFAM Facebook Group 

Where To Buy Old Tools

• Time Tested Tools
• Jim Bode Antique Tools
• Fine Tool Journal - Brown Tool Auctions
• Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tool Auctions

Schools and Online Courses

• Professional School Of Practical Stereotomy
• Internet Archive stereotomy texts
• Patrick Edwards Stereotomy Vid 1
• Patrick Edwards Stereotomy Vid 2
• Patrick Edwards Stereotomy Vid 3