Foster, RI
ph: (401)932-8720

Old Tools

OLD TOOLS: 

I enjoy buying, researching and using old tools.  This page is kind of a living journal of some tools that I am researching.  I am going to put all the machinery on the "Shop Tour" page.  This page is primarily reserved for hand tools.

TOOLCHESTS:


D.E. MacEwen's Tool Chest.  I spent a lot of time cleaning and restoring.  It has three removable tool trays and a really cool 16 chisel holder in the front compartment.  The brass tag on top has D.E.'s name on it.  I am researching more to see if I can find out about him.  I love looking at this chest.  It is one of two (the second I need to go to Pennsylvania to pick up) that will house the Mamacoke vintage tool collection.

Hand cut dovetail toolchest.  I get all tingly when I look at it.

BENCH CHISELS:

COMBINATION SQUARE:

This combination square is a joy to use.  Made by Orange Tool Co. in Orange Mass.  The quality is incredible.  This has become my combination square of choice.  It is more square than some of my fancy fixed squares.  Incredible piece!

BENCH PLANES:

 

My Stanley #4 and #5 planes.  The #4 is a smooting plane (see the black walnut shavings).  Both planes are patented in 1910. both retain most of their Japaning and both are perfectly square and true unlike the new plane in the background.  If you are buying a plane, head to Ebay, look for anything made prior to WWII.  After WWII plane quality took a big nose dive.

 

Router Plane and Stanley 35

 

European Hand Planes mostly Ulmia

 

MOULDING PLANES:

DRAWKNIVES:

BRACES AND BITS:

VISES:

Emmerts Patternmakers Vise (left) and my 1898 vise which came from a museum(right).

MEASURING TOOLS:

VINTAGE WORKBENCHES:  WANTED!!!

 

Ulmia European Beach Workbench.

 

TIMBERFRAMING TOOLS:

 

This Timber Mortising machine came from my Wife's uncle, Arthur Weiner.  It is so much more meaningful when the tools come from family members.  This machine probably helped build some of the Weiner family barns in Gettysburg, PA.  We used it some when building a timber frame structure on our property and will probably use it again when the Mamacoke Workshop is built.  You sit on the extention piece and crank the cranks.  A self boring bit pulls the bit down into the beam.  Works like a charm.

 

 

 

  

 

 

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Foster, RI
ph: (401)932-8720