Manufacturing 3/5

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Early Methods of Grinding Paint

Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Sept. 1965 by Alexander Farnham For our early ancestors, the stone and muller, fig. I,...

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Stanley Model Shop Tools: Stanley No. 87 Cabinet Makers Scraper Plane Prototype

The subject of this piece is a prototype for the Stanley No. 87 cabinet makers scraper plane (Figure 1). It will be described and...

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Sargent Model Shop Tools: Prototype Successor to Shaw’s Patent Planes?

Here it is at only the second post of this blog and I’ve gone off the subject of Stanley Model Shop tools in my collection to discuss a...

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Ten Things You Might Not Have Known About Lowell, Massachusetts

With the 2019 Early American Industries Association Annual Meeting coming up in a few months, here are some interesting tidbits of...

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Leonard Bailey's Last Vertical Post?

Leonard Bailey appears to have begun experimenting with and manufacturing vertical post planes sometime in 1860. These planes are called...

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Little-Known Anvil Makers

By Clayton Ray Postman’s 1998 book, Anvils in America, is a landmark in the study of American anvils. He documented all of the major...

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