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
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
Online Public Access Books
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
Living History Associations
- ALHFAM - Association of Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums