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Alice Frampton
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Well, as you might have guessed from the title, I live in Cornwall and do a little woodworking. As many modern woodworkers do, I got to thinking that using power tools was the only route to follow. Then I got on-line and discovered a group of hand tool, and particularly old hand tool, enthusiasts calling themselves Galoots.
American Hardwood Information Center
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A brief description of the most common North American hardwoods
AntiqueTools.co.uk
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78 High Street, Needham Market,
Suffolk, IP6 8AW, England
Tel. +44 (0)1449 722992
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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.
Arthur Robb
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Wiltshire, England
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I have been a luthier since 1974. I make lutes and guitars, restore older instruments and do repairs for local musicians.
BackSaw.net
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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.
Blood and Sawdust
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Tom Rettie
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Containing various and useful information on medieval and Renaissance woodworking, furniture, material culture, and re-enactment.
Bob Kaune - Antique & Used Tools
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511 W. 11th
Port Angeles, Washington 98362
(360) 452-2292
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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.
Brass City Records and Tools
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489 Meadow St
Waterbury CT 06702
(203) 574-7805
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I sell records for a living but I have a passion for woodworking and old tools. I really enjoy sharing both with anyone who will listen, and sometimes even people who will not listen.
Catalog of American Patented Antique Tools
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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.
Charlie Belden
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I realized that you can't make good cabinets and furniture with just Normite power tools. Neander handtools are essential - chisels, hand saws, planes, scrapers ... and these seem to proliferate at an amazing rate. Three Steve Knight woodies and a couple of marking knives have led me to a boatload of chisels, a pile of iron Stanley planes, a handful of saws and so on.
Chris Pye Woodcarver
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I've been a professional woodcarver, author and teacher of woodcarving for nigh on 30 years, and am a member of the Master Carvers Association.
I bring my enthusiasm, experience and knowledge of carving to this website: helping you learn to carve, or develop good, competent woodcarving skills. I want to support your carving path and progress, and rejoice in the beautiful carvings you can create.
Classic Tools
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46 Grantham Crescent
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP2 9PD
England
Office telephone No. +44 (0) 1473 41 33 81
Alex mobile No. +44 (0) 7771 80 26 73
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Antique woodworking tools, Forum for collectors, Tools shop and auction house, Collectible woodworking tools and related items for sale
Country Workshops
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990 Black Pine Ridge Road
Marshall, NC 28753
(828) 656-2280
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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.
Daiku Dojo
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Tel: (510) 635-7182
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Daiku Dojo is a community organization designed to help provide the education and skills necessary for the use of hand tools in woodworking. The organization also encourages personal involvement with community projects. By joining together we can work on interesting projects that most of us would not have the opportunity or resources to attempt alone, and at the same time, benefit local groups and organizations.
Directory of American Tools and Machinery Patents
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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.
Disstonian Institute
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This non-commercial website is intended to be a resource for people interested in Disston handsaws: whether you're a beginning collector, an online auction seller who wants know more about the saws you're trying to pitch, or someone who wants to restore and actually use a handsaw.
Dr. Oud
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Dr Oud Press, P.O. Box 87392, Vancouver, WA 98687-7392
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This site is for oud builders, players and collectors interested in construction and repair of the oud.
Other writings:
The Oud Construction and Repair
Exotic Wood Identification Site
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Cortland, New York
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A non-commercial site focusing on color-correct pictures of exotic and domestic woods.
Frets.com
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Information galore for luthiers.
georgesbasement
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Lots of hand tool articles and links.
GetWoodworking.com
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8th Floor, Caxton House,
2 Farringdon Road,
London,
EC1M 3HN
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Welcome to the online home of Good Woodworking and The Woodworker
Gluetube woodworking videos
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Woodworking videos by the people, for the people
Green Woodworking
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Ted Rushworth
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A manual pole-lathe is the classic centuries old method used to turn green (unseasoned) wood with little effort and without the noise, dust, or danger involved with modern mechanised turning.
At the beginning of the 1990's, in the early days of my retirement, I made my first pole-lathe from scrap timber for next to nothing, then I went on a three day course at Newcastle to make a more refined one.
Handplane Central
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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
In the Woodshop with Derek Cohen
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Perth, Australia
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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.
Jeff Gorman's A Few Woodwork Notes
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Although some of this material has previously been published in Future Publishing's Good Woodworking magazine (and re-used with the kind consent of its Editor), this website is operated entirely independently.
Joe Woodworker
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Veneer Supplies.com
133 German Manor Rd.
Forest Hill, MD 21050
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The truth is that the website is here to share information with fellow woodworkers who are looking for project ideas and basic veneering skills. If you haven't seen the veneering section of this website, be sure to check it out. The veneering part contains the most visited pages within the Joewoodworker.com website.
John Lloyd
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Bankside Farm
Jacobs Post
Ditchling Common
East Sussex RH15 0SJ
01444 480388
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At John Lloyd Fine Furniture we are dedicated to the highest quality in design, craftsmanship and customer service. Furniture making, with individual, bespoke pieces designed and made to order. Antique furniture restoring to exacting standards. We employ the finest traditional techniques of craftsmanship in our cabinetmaking, furniture restoration and French polishing in order to deliver the highest standards possible.
LumberJocks
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Woodworking showcase
Mark van Roojen's Woodworking Page
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I plan to use this page for links to my woodworking and tool-related interests. I'll be posting some photos of projects and hopefully useful info on older handtools and their use. Among the projects I've made are an acoustic and an electric guitar, my workbench, several boxes, and stereo equipment cabinets.
Michael Darnton
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220 S. State Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 933-3158
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Violin maker
Mid-West Tool Collectors Association
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M-WTCA
P.O. Box 355
Humboldt, IA 50548-0355
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The Mid-West Tool Collectors Association is a non-profit international organization whose purpose is the study, preservation and understanding of the early tools, implements and devices used by our ancestors in their homes, shops, on the farms and on the seas.
Mortise & Tenon
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This website is oriented toward hand tool based woodworking, however I am a blended woodworker, and do not mourn the death of electrons.
Nora Hall Carving Designs
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PO Box 881383,
Steamboat Springs, CO
80488-1383
Tel. (208) 337-2400
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Norse Woodsmith
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General woodworking site and blog
Old Tools Shop
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Internet magazine for galoots by galoots
Old Woodworking Machines
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Your source for information on vintage woodworking machines
Olde Tool Shop
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Pennsylvania
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The best old tools store in Pennsylvania!
OldToolHeaven.com
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This page serves as the directory to an encyclopedic study of the Millers Falls Company for the years in which it was located in Massachusetts. The site features a company history, biographies of figures associated with the business, guides to some of the hand-powered tools it manufactured and an illustrated list of publications distributed by the manufacturer.
Peter McBride Antique and Old Tools
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PO Box 6020 East Ringwood, Victoria 3135, Australia
Tel. 61 3 9779 5266
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I have been hand making jewellery in Melbourne, Australia for 30 years, and I am also an enthusiastic collector and user of antique and old woodworking tools.
Occasionally I have tools that I wish to sell or trade to improve my collection.
Philip Edwards
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Broadstone, Dorset
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Dedicated to woodworking Philly style.
Primitive Archer
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Primitive Archer Magazine
PO BOX 79306
Houston, TX 77279-9306
Phone: (713) 467-8202
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Primitive Archer Magazine is written specifically for people who love the outdoors, hunting and archery and has been dedicated to “Passing On The Traditions Of Classical Archery” since 1992. Published six times a year, we are packed with advice for bowyers, hunters and outdoorsmen. Each issue is full of how-to's, archery history, hunting tips and related ways to maximize your outdoor experience, plus exciting stories from well known authors and your fellow readers.
PrimitiveWays
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Society of Primitive Technology
PO Box 905
Rexburg, ID 83440
208-359-2400
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PrimitiveWays began in 1998 and is produced by Dick Baugh, Bob Gillis, Norm Kidder, Susan Labiste, Chuck Kritzon, Ken Peek and Dino Labiste. The Society of Primitive Technology is a non-profit organization dedicated to the research, practice, and teaching of primitive technology.
Raymond McInnis
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I am writing an online History of Woodworking, with a particular focus on amateur woodworking.
Rex Mill
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I am trying to build this Site Into the Best Hand Plane Resource on the Web... So if hand Planes is your thing you have come to the right place.
Robin Wood
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Robin Wood,
Right Hand Police House
Lane Head Green, Edale
Hope Valley S33 7ZA, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1433 670321
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Robin Wood is an internationally respected woodturner and spooncarver. He was introduced to traditional woodland crafts whilst working as a National Trust forester clearing and replanting woodlands in Kent after the 1987 storm.
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Rose Antique Tools and Bella Vista Woodcarvers Club
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15086 Fielding Road,
Gravette, Arkansas 72736
Tel. (479) 787-7673
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Rose Tools offers tons of information on tools and the companies that sold them. I have scanned many old catalogs so you can try and identify a tool you may be looking for.
The Bella Vista Woodcarvers Club first met on May 28, 1987 in Riordan Hall with ten members in attendance. In the years which have followed, the club has grown to almost 50 members.
Rosewood and Brass
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Okins Hollow, London, 1740-1835
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Seller of antique tools. Information for collectors and users.
Sawdust and shavings
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Woodworking Tools, Projects and Hardwood Information
Society of American Period Furniture Makers
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SAPFM Membership
423-A South Galena Rd
Sunbury, OH 43074
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Period woodworking society
Stan Faullin
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Texas
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I have set up this site to be a source of reference information on vintage hand tools (mostly Stanley). I hope to add more information on using the Stanley Combination Planes and Miter Boxes in the future. I would also like to add as many instruction manuals as possible to this page.
Stephen A. Shepherd
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Stephen Shepherd
974 East 2100 South #3
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106
(801) 455-8659
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We launched our web site in 1999 where we sell Moses T’s All Natural Wood Care Products, provide historical information and offer publications and plans about traditional woodworking. I think that the Internet will revolutionize how we do woodworking and how we will record (& make) history.
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Check out this link to find the following writings:
www.fullchisel.com/publications.htm
1805 Turning Bench (Treadle lathe) - ©1985 Complete construction plans with parts list and material requirements - 8 sheets, 11" by 17" plus 4 pages of instructions
Take It Out - A guide to screw (& nail) removal, 20 pages, punched for 3 ring binder, 144 illustrations
Traditional Equivalents - Hundreds of ancient, archaic and arcane terms and their modern counterparts, 11 pages, punched for 3 ring binder
Guide to Furniture Hardware Casting - ©1989 - A guide for making molds and casting serviceable, impossible to replace, hardware from tin with simple tools, materials and techniques, 36 pages, punched for 3 ring binder, 113 illustrations
French Polish - Reveals the secrets for this impressive traditional shellac finish
Half Mortice Locks - Illustrations of half mortice locks used in 18th and 19th century furniture
Ormolu - A guide to gilded brass hardware
The Electronic Neanderthal
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A repository of information on the use and preservation of old and antique woodworking tools: sources of tools and materials, events, organizations, books, and places to visit, both real and virtual.
The Iron Hand- Emmert Vises
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The Emmert Patternmaker's Vise is by far the most versatile woodworking vise ever made! This web site is a tribute to this wonderful tool used by so many woodworkers and patternmakers.
The Musical Instrument Makers Forum
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We invite you to participate on the Musical Instrument Makers Forum, an interactive forum for the discussion of musical instrument construction, design and repair; welcoming builders of all instruments at any skill level from expert to wannabe. For ten years the web's premier site for instrument builders.
The Superior Works
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Patrick Leach
PO Box 43
Ashby, MA 01431
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Welcome to the web page of The Superior Works, your one-stop source for old and new tools, and the official home of that cult classic, Patrick's Blood and Gore.
The Woodworking Pages
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Other writings:
Editor's note: Make sure you visit The Index of Fossil-Fuel-Friendly Woodworking Knowledge
The Woodwright's Shop
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This is The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill -- and it’s about more than craft projects. The Woodwright’s Shop rediscovers the tools and techniques of self-reliance. It’s honoring the ingenuity of our ancestors. With its new season, The Woodwright’s Shop celebrates over 20 years of original programming designed to teach traditional woodworking skills to millions of national public television viewers in more than 200 markets.
Toolemera
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Ephemera & Books on Early Tools, Trades, Crafts & Industries. What, you ask, is Toolemera? A bunch of years ago I started selling books and ephemera about tools, trades and technology on the Oldtools eMail list. There was the occasional catalog reproduction too. In the middle of the night I had an epiphany... henceforth I would sell under the name Toolemera. You get the idea: tool + ephemera, etc., etc.
Tools for Working Wood
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32 33rd Street 5th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
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We specialize in hand tools. Classic hand tools, new hand tools, from both large old line makers and new upstarts. We are also the home of Gramercy Tools.
Traditional Tools
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This site is about traditional hand tools. The tools can be new, antique, or home made. Woodworking is the most popular craft but other traditional crafts such as blacksmithing, textile crafts and others are certainly on topic.
Union Hill Antique Tools
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Tel. (425) 868-1532
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Web site dedicated to the use, preservation, and extension of antique tool knowledge.
Vintage Saws
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Peter Taran
9165 Ledgemont Drive
Broadview Heights, OH 44147
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Our mission here at Vintage Saws is to provide the highest quality saws of the 19th and 20th Century to the woodworker and collector alike. All the saws that we sell are newly sharpened, properly set and ready to use right out of the box. We strive to sell only the finest quality tools and know that you will be pleased with your purchase.
Will's Medieval Woodworking
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As a medieval artisan, I have been exploring the various forms of woodcraft as they were practiced in Western Europe, from the late Classical era through the Renaissance. For the past few years, my focus has been 16th-century English joinery, but within you will find notes on Italian, Norse, and German work as well.
Windsor Chair Resources
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Resources on traditionally handcrafted Windsors
WK Fine Tools Internet Magazine
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Internet magazine
WoodCentral
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The website where woodworkers of all stripes come to share a wealth of good information, offbeat humor and a unique camaraderie.
Woodcrafting.org
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WoodCrafting.org
A Free Online Community for Wood Craft
Wooden Clamps
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The list of "related woodworking tools" has grown to include those clamps that have wood jaws with metal spindles (which I call "composite clamps") bar clamps, sometimes called F-clamps
It doesn't include C-clamps, the specialized clamps used by lutiers, book binders, and so on, or vises.
WoodKit.net
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Woodkit.net is an online woodworker's articles and resource project. Our focus is on articles intended for the beginning woodworker using mostly hand woodworking tools.
Our articles are gathered and adapted from popular woodworking textbooks published before electrical tools were common. These articles convey the basics of woodworking and promote the mastery of woodworking with hand tools.
WoodNet.net
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Woodworking Tips, Techniques, Tool Reviews, Plans and Supplies for Woodworkers. All from the editors of three of the most respected woodworking magazines around: Woodsmith, ShopNotes, and Workbench.
WoodTreks
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Keith Cruickshank's video blog for wood art and wood craft enthusiasts
Woodwork joints
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How woodworking joints are set out, made, and where they are used.
Woodworking Talk
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The Woodworkers Forum
WorkbenchDesign.net
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A workbench design resource for woodworkers
www.japanesetools.com
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Japanese woodworking forums
www.osborneatelier.com
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Articles on building a mountain dulcimer, steel string guitar, folk harp, and a Stewart-MacDonald Ukulele.
Yesteryears Tools
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Yesteryears Tools is an Internet Magazine that concentrates on hand tools, the toolmakers and the tool distributors that operated mostly between the mid-1800s and late-1900s.