Helpful websites and blogs

We supply antique tools, used woodworking tools and specialist new Cabinetmaker's tools from our retail store where we offer the largest selection of used and antique tools in Europe - over 1500 wood carving tools are always in stock. We also offer a full Mail-order service world-wide. We are also the leading auction house specialising in antique wood working tools.

This site is all about woodworking handsaws, There has been a resurgence of interest in woodworking with hand tools and consequent proliferation of high quality handtool makers. When the powered circular saw became popular, the availability of quality handsaws decreased. Now there are a number of companies dedicated to re-capturing the high quality of early saws.

I have a large selection of quality, ready to use vintage hand tools: planes, scrapers, spokeshaves, chisels, slicks, adzes, drawknives, saws, braces, drills, levels, rules, squares, bevels, parts and other hard to find items.

On the pages of this web site, you'll be able to view many of America's most beautiful, rare, and collectible patented antique tools. I invite you to peruse these pages and see for yourself the artistic and inventive spirit imbued within these symbols of creativity.

The woodworking school that focuses on traditional craftsmanship with hand tools. Started in 1978 by Drew Langsner. In many Country Workshops woodworking classes, instruction begins by splitting a freshly felled hardwood log, a traditional method sometimes called “green woodworking.” Air-dried, milled lumber is also used when appropriate. Project work is often done with a drawknife and spokeshave while seated at a shaving horse. We also teach the skills of wood turning, wood bending, carving and hewing with axes and adzes.

The DATAMP project is a cooperative effort of the OldWWMachines and OldTools mailing lists. It is intended to be a clearinghouse for information on antique tool and woodworking machine patents, allowing collectors of these tools to easily find information about the history of tools and trades.

This site is for oud builders, players and collectors interested in construction and repair of the oud.

Information galore for luthiers.

Lots of hand tool articles and links.

Our aim is to make Handplane Central a valuable source of information for all types of handplanes, including wooden planes, infill planes and Stanley type planes. If you want to make a woodworking plane we have a selection of plans for making planes and we're adding new articles almost every day. So if you're into planemaking, aspiring to be a planemaker, a hand plane collector or just want to learn about hand planes in general and how to use them then this is a good place to start

There are articles on building your own tools, such as planes, chisels, knives and saws. Some of my creations are basic, some are quite complex, some are just art, but all are intended to be used. I have put together tutorials and hope that you will have the same fun with them as I have.