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A Unique Tongue Plane

Figure 1. A unique tongue plane purchased in Ohio. One the most interesting parts of the plane is the iron. Excerpted from The Chronicle...

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A Field Guide For Leonard Bailey's Victor Block Planes

by Paul Van Pernis After a series of ever more contentious disputes, Leonard Bailey left The Stanley Rule & Level Company in 1874 to...

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A Treasure Chest of Late-Nineteenth-Century Tools: John E. Kraus’s Tool Chest

Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 60 no. 3, September 2007 by Jeff Neil Upon returning from a quilting “camp” my wife told me that she...

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Colonial Homestead: A Midwest Tool Mecca

In almost every woodworking class I teach in Covington, Ky., there's at least one student who has driven through Ohio to get there who...

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The New Rules for Ivory Containing Tools-Revisited

On October 21st, 2014, I posted a blog on this website about the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Order 210 regarding the...

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Stanley Model Shop #278 Rabbet and Fillester Plane

The Stanley Rule & Level Company was always interested in providing its customers with the tools they wanted. They were very adept at...

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