Tool and Supply Manufacturers and resellers

Serving the Stringed Instrument Industry for 30 Years

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.

Woodturning and Carving Tools made in the old tradition. The first choice of discriminating woodturners and carvers throughout the world

Makers of the Mag-Blok.

In 1987 Bill left full time employment to concentrate on plane making at home. We estimate he has made about 1000 planes. He is now 69 years old and is still making a few planes in the summer months. Bill is self taught and never had any metal work tuition, it's all been learnt by trial and error. His speciality is copying rare mitre planes and making miniature mitre planes out of the brass backs of old tenon saw's.

Blue Spruce Toolworks designs, manufactures and sells only the finest quality hand tools for the discriminating woodworker. Blue Spruce tools are a return to the cabinet shops of old, where beautiful works were created by craftsmen working quietly and skillfully, with hand tools at a sturdy bench.

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.

Maker of Infill Planes, Project Plane Irons, and Lever Cap Assemblies

Cape Forge's tools are all individually hand forged one at a time. The individual care that goes into each tool will become apparent whether you are a beginner or an old time carver.

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.

Chipping away is dedicated to the growth and development of woodcarving and wood art.

Clark & Williams is one of only two contemporary plane makers listed in A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes, the single comprehensive text on American wooden plane makers. They are the only one listed producing traditional planes with traditional construction.

Contemporary planemakers specialising in dovetailed Norris planes made to the highest standard. We aim not only to produce beautiful-looking tools but ones that perform superbly, and whether you are collector or user we intend to exceed your expectations.

Innovative tools for the professional woodworker

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.

You will find a great selection of woodworking hand tools from quality makers. Complete selection of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks products - L.S. Starrett, Norton, HNT Gordon, and more. Sjoberg & Lie-Nielsen workbenches on display. Authorized Shapton waterstone distributor. Knowledgeable service and demonstration tools available.

Tight joinery in wood begins with crisp, distinct layout lines that permit positive cutting tool registration. Czeck Edge Marking Knives and Awls will create these lines accurately and comfortably for you, every time. We use the finest materials plus a balance of traditional and state of the art technologies to produce our tools.

Britain's longest established, specialist tool auctioneer.

Many unique and fine tools including damascus steel. Many edge tools as well as things for luthiers. A unique site. Click on the British flag at the bottom to see the site in English.

Fine tools

Hand tools for the craftsman and the collector

My goal is to make the finest tools I possibly can. My favourite tools are ones that function superbly and that have a lot of visual appeal and personality. At the heart of my tools are sound principles of construction based upon a lot of thought, experimentation, and the study of old tools.

Importers and distributors of the finest quality woodworking tools from Europe.

Auriou makes superlative hand cut rasps and rifflers that are appreciated by woodworkers and artists from all over the world. Their full range of quality products is available through www.forge-de-saint-juery.com. Also, they are poised to re-enter the North American retail market place through selected retailers from early April 2009. First shipments are due to arrive at Lie Nielsen Toolworks & The Best Things in early - mid April and in August at Highland Hardware in Atlanta. As a matter of correction (March 17, 2009) to the previous listing here, the tools currently sold by The Best Things Corporation do not originate from Forge de Saint Juery. They are forged and stitched (application of the teeth onto a polished blank) by sub-contractors to a company over 250 miles from Forge de Saint Juery. The name Auriou is a trademark licensed to Forge de Saint Juery only. 4th generation rasp maker, Michel Auriou is the technical manager at Forge de Saint Juery.

At Galoot-Tools™ our goal is to provide innovative woodworking tools of unmatched quality to the advanced woodworker. We believe that highest quality tools can only be crafted through the hands of a master craftsman. We combine traditional manufacturing techniques with modern design concepts. The results are woodworking tools of unmatched performance and beauty.

Maker of fine traditional wood tool chests and other wood items

"Making tools that make a difference" The Glen-Drake Toolworks is located in Fort Bragg, the city that also hosts the world-renowned College of the Redwoods Fine Woodworking Program on California's beautiful north coast. We are dedicated to the task of developing tools for woodworkers that value the woodworking process as a way of life. Our designs are developed, tested, and honed by fine woodworkers. If you are going to be in the area, please do not hesitate to call us. Visitors are always welcome.

After several years of development H.N.T. Gordon and Co Classic Plane Makers of Australia sold their first woodworking hand planes in 1995. They are a family business that produces a range of hand crafted woodworking planes for the person with craftsmanship in mind.

Maker of hand crafted marking gauges

Hearne Hardwoods Inc. is one of the largest specialty lumberyards in the world. Hearne Hardwoods is a source for some of the world's rarest and most beautiful timbers including book matched lumber, burls, boules, custom flooring, and a few exotic veneers.

Fine tools and education

Because he is so meticulous, Karl will not allow anyone else to help him make his planes. The methods he uses are long and laborious, but are the only way he can achieve the ultimate quality that is his goal.

Horton Brasses produces more than 1,000 different pieces of authentic reproduction cabinet and furniture hardware at our factory in Connecticut. We have been making brass hardware for 70 years and use brass, iron, and various hardwoods to make knobs, drawer pulls, hinges, shelf pegs, bed bolts, casters, hooks and even clock finials!

Exclusive purveyor of quality Japanese tools

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.

Here are antique tools for woodworkers and collectors, and books that are the best references in the antique tool world. I am actively buying and selling antique tools. If you are looking for a tool not in this home page, or if you have a tool that I'm looking for, or you think I'd like - let me know.

Whether a tool from Lee Valley is one made by Veritas Tools or is one of the 5000 or so we get from around the world, it will always have our full guarantee. That means it costs you nothing to try us out. We're confident that the quality and service we provide will be to your liking. Just give us the opportunity.

Heirloom quality tools

Woodworking Books, Tools, Supplies and DVDs!

Antique tools and books.

We specialize in a very limited number of reproductions and copies of 18th century American furniture, particularly in the Queen Anne, Chippendale and Pennsylvania German styles. Our online catalog lists an extensive line of finishing supplies from exotic material as Dragon's Blood and Copals to many grades and kinds of shellac flakes,natural dyes (logwood, brazilwood, cutch and sumac extracts), aniline dyes (water, alcohol and oil soluble), NGRs and the new light fast dyes, to name only a few. Olde Mill also continues a decade-plus of dedication to offering educational opportunities to those seriously interested in furthering their woodworking knowledge.

Old Tools Limited is a UK supplier of old wood working tool collectables. The tools include a range of old measuring instruments, hammers and wrenches, and antique planes made by makers such as: Stanley, Record, Preston, Marples, Miller Falls, Norris, and Sorby. The collectables also include a number of old trade books and a collection of miscellaneous products which can range anything from mallets and bradawls to cheese samples.

Traditional wooden planes made in England

For people who have an interest in the tools, crafts or manufacturing processes of the past.

Since 1901 precious woods from the world. Fine Italian instrument woods. Sawn sizes and veneers in precious woods for gift goods, restoration, knife handles, inlay and turnery.

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.

We are a specialist company trading mainly on the internet in quality used, secondhand, antique & user's, metal, leather & woodworking, craft & gardening tools.

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.

The trusted supplier of hardwoods, exotics, plywoods, and woodworking machinery...Come and browse through our 32,000 square foot showroom-warehouse and see what we can do to make your woodworking projects a success.

My collector instincts are directed to finding hand saws with local (southeastern Massachusetts) hardware store marks, and 19th century patented American braces. The other tools are offered with the hopes that they will find better homes than the ones to which they were destined.

We buy sell and collect Old Logging Tools and in return, sell them to Collectors, Dealers and the Every Day User. In addition to our Old Logging Tools we have a Small Shared Saw Mill Site where the "Hard to find" kinds of exotic woods as well as Old Growth Cedar and Fir are Mill Cut to your specifications or you can select from our Large Inventory of Kiln dried and Air Dried woods for Cabinet Work,Carving or other projects.

Chemically safe historic paints since 1974

The Old Tool Store was established in 1983 by my father, Ashley Iles, upon his retirement from tool manufacturing. When he passed away ten years ago, as the eldest son, I decided to continue the company.

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 Windsor Institute was founded by chair maker Mike Dunbar and his wife Sue.

We have been in mail order for over 25 years. We are a part of WoodenBoat Publications, publisher of WoodenBoat magazine, founded in 1974 by Jon Wilson.

We pride ourselves on having a skilled combination of modern technology and the traditional hand craftsmanship associated with the very best of saw manufacturing. It is our intension to provide saws that will out last many of those that are available today and is why we are highly regarded by people who choose to use our saws.

Leading UK manufacturer and supplier of Sculptors' Tools, Materials and Studio Equipment, for Carving, Modelling, Mouldmaking, Casting & Restoration. Dedicated to supplying sculptors worldwide since 1895.

Buyer & Seller of Antique Tools and Rules

Tools from Japan blog

We specialize in woodcarving tools and materials, walking stick and cane supplies, pyrography equipment and other hard to find tools. We strive to excel in customer service and quality products. We are a small family owned company and all of the employees here are very knowledgeable and professional.

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.

Our planes feature hardwood soles and strike plates of tropical woods. Our wooden hand planes are ergonomically designed to provide maximum control while hand planing . Easy to adjust, these low profile planes provide you with the feel and tactile sensation of hand planing.

Resources on traditionally handcrafted Windsors

Fine tools to enhance your skill and ability

The UK's high performance hand tool specialists.