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& Abstracts To see the old links as written way back when, click on this link. The following URL's were gleaned on September 5, 2005, by scanning my Bookmark file and then, in January and May 2016, scouring the WayBack Machine for links to the lost sites. Those are the ones where the destinations don't match the text you see here. If the abstracts seem incomplete, that's because I decided to publish them sooner rather than later. These sites are too interesting to be simply rendered like common soap. KomPozer can't handle very large tables, so this is Page 5. Go back to Page 1. Page 2; Page 3; Page 4; Page 6; Page 7. |
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The
Old Tool Nut Journal
This Internet journal was started on January 30, 2002 with all good intentions ...This particular page opens to a list of links to other sites that happily have also been archived by the Wayback Machine. By June, 2003 ... looked pretty much the same ... all good intentions. |
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Tools For Sale Jon Zimmers: antique edge tools for sale, including sharpening jigs, axes & hatchets, chisels, gouges, drawknives, adzes, slicks, and carving tools. |
Woodworking Shop R.I.P. Two-car garage ... enter: woodworking shop ... complete with shavings on the floor ... but no smiling spouse in sight. |
http://mybldg.com/hobbyist/polishes00.html Everything of concern about furniture polishes, including silicone and water. |
iForge (Interactive Forge) Step-by-step Blacksmith Projects Starting with Safety, a Case Study; then, everything you might want to know about blacksmithing. |
Demonstration Quality Scanning Digital Camera Professor Andrew Davidhazy's fascinating diary about the conversion of a lowly Kodak paper scanner into a versatile experimental device and then, the much improved: VERY DRAFTY - Improvised Scanning Digital Camera. |
Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner Nice pictorial description of another scsanning digital camera made from an ordinary paper scanner. |
Pitt scientists get the lead out of machined steel Anthony DeArdo & Isaac Garcia figure out how to substitute tin for lead in free-machining steels. |
Canedy Otto New #16 A rusty blacksmith's post drill starts to make the transition back to useful condition, but stalls after the Y2K calendar crisis ... |
The Post Drill Explanation of how it works, but sadly missing most of the supporting photographs. |
Hough's American Woods Romeyn B. Hough's classic work, illustrated entirely with real wood specimens, formerly archived by Yale University and fractionally saved by the Wayback Machine, but online "forever" at the North Carolina State University School of Forestry. |
Woodworking Jim Boyett's exhaustive list of woodworking links. Even though he didn't keep it up to date, the Wayback Machine has stepped into the void to fill in some of the blanks. |
Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair
Insightful advice on using eBay & other auction venues as well as electronic project plans. |
| Ramblin'
Oldies of Denham Springs If you ever wondered what Al Babin did in his spare time ... |
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to Vintage Saws! Pete Taran's old page on getting your saw filed ... |
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Reference of Disston Saws -- Everything you might want to know about an old Disston saw. |
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Ratbag
of note: Erik von Sneidern < Marking time
< autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle
Peter Marquis-Kyle's blog on Erik von Sneidern (of Disstonian Institute fame) and other subjects. |
| Cocobolo Inc., RareTropical
Hardwoods Company that used to source rare tropical hardwoods legally. |
| Sloping
Gullets Brent Beach's amazingly detailed & authoritative tutorial on the proper filing of wood saws. |
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Hanchett Manufacturing --
Knife Grinding Systems - Band Saw Sharpening Systems
Current equipment for sharpening knives & bandsaw blades ... plus saw hammering tools. |
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Lumber
Prices for Irvin's Sawmill & Gallery of Wood
What a wide variety of wood lumber cost at the mill in 2009. |
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Kiln
Dried Lumber and Rare Wood Species Products at Full Cycle WoodWorks Inc.
What a wide variety of Tennessee wood lumber cost at the mill in 2005. |
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| West Virginia Highlands
Conservancy "Preserving West Virginia for future generations" says it all ... |
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Osage
Orange information page
An Australian view of the Osage Orange, a.k.a. Bodark, an American roadside tree. |
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USGS
-- Digital Datasets
Hydrology, magnetic anamalies, geographic information systems (GIS), mineral exploration, for many places worldwide. |
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Steel - Steel Mills My first job as an independent consultant in 1985 was on their principal product, Hadfield's austenitic manganese steel, widely used in the coal mining industry. |
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Randy Roeder's Millers
Falls Braces page
Back in the good old days ... now brought up to the present at OldToolHeaven. |
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Exotic
hardwood exotics hardwoods burl burrs burls squares lumber
2010-era look at the prices and availability of domestic and exotic woods in Central Massachusetts. |
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How
do I use the Hosts File?
For users of the Microsoft-controlled operating systems who want to block certain domains or IP addresses by listing them in a file simply called "Hosts." |
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Old Woodworking Tools
Falcon-Wood, Massachusetts purveyor of antique and user tools for working with wood. |
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Mid-West
Tool Collectors Association
"World's Largest Tool Collecting Organization," publisher of The Gristmill for members only. Also maintains a list of tool dealers. |
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OLD
TOOLS: Useful and Curious
The late William Harris's website, maintained by Middlebury College as a tribute. |
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EAIA
The Early American Industries Association, publishers of The Chronicle (for research articles) and Shavings (for current happenings). |
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Fine Tool Journal-The Most
Comprehensive Resource On Hand Tools
William Pownall's ca. 2002 website, now presented as Fine Tool Journal by a new publisher, running an extensive online auction. |
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Brown
Tool Auctions
Hosting live auctions of old and antique tools several times a year in Central Pennsylvania. |
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Saw
Setting Machines
Pictorial archive of mechanisms used to set the teeth of saw blades more-or-less automatically. |
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Roger's
woodworking page
By Roger Van Maren, ca. 2002; the index page's images are lost, but many pictures remain in the individual projects, including an interesting story about his Emmert patternmaker's vise (sans pictures, sadly). |
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Resources
on Wooden Planes
Mostly dead links, but the one to Grandpa's Tool Chest of Wooden Planes has a good 2003 (partially) illustrated price list. |
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What the Heck is an
Astragal - by Tom Price
Back online with the astute aid & wisdom of Tom Price, this essay describes not only this not-so-odd plane profile, but just about all the others as well. |
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Brace and Boring Tools The Old Tools Store list of tools for sale ca. 2007 ... and the current offerings. |
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NAWCC
Member's Links - National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors
Local sources of watch repair services ... "Philadelphia" chosen ... you can substitute your own neighborhood. |
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ArtfulBodger.net:
Shaper Index
Anonymous comments and handy contributions to the sparse Internet literature on using a metal shaper. |
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TOOLS
'n RULES - ANTIQUE TOOLS
Current listings of old trade catalogs ... Current listings of machinist tools ... miscellaneous tools ... planes ... even rules. |
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Tool
Junkie
Murali Nair's Canada-located tool business, specializing in new power tools but presenting a few antique tools at ca. 2007 (?) prices ... |
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Principal
machinist tool manufacturers of the classic period
The Davistown Museum's center for information on easrly tools, here presenting a list of New England toolmakers. |
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Galoots'
pages
The Wayback Machine's capture of Galoots on the Web, ca.2008 ... many also archived & linked, sometimes tenuously. |
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jeffy's
Woodworking References
Jeff Youngstrom's not-updated-since 2002 listing of a few Galoot webpages, even my own. |
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Robert
Schroeder
A freelance journalist's entertaining view of antiquing in Adamstown, Pennsylvania: Search for the Perfect Table. |
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Bibliography
: Tool and Implements Catalogue
A short list of catalogs on tools and implements at the University of Michigan. |
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TRINDERS'
FINE TOOLS
Books on a wide variety of old trades, old tools, etc. ca. 2006, and a list of tools that were for sale then. |
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Coles'
Power Models
Started in 1928 ... still in business under a new proprietor ... with offerings of kits and books on steam- and gasoline-powered models for the serious hobbyist. |
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Old
tools Measuring Devices, Makers & Markers of Gauges, Rulers,
Squares & Tape Measures
Phillip Cannon's listing of measuring devices: their manufacturers as well as the folks who added their trade marks. |
| Tools
from GoAntiques Exhaustive searchable listing of antiques, last archived in 2010. |
| AlumiLite
30" X 63" Folding Table Handy sized aluminum folding flea-market table ... last seen in 2003. |
| By Hammer In Hand... --
http://www.hammerinhand.com/maxpages/Home By Michael McCarthy in Cooperstown, New York: "A Site for Traditional and Experimental Metalsmithing" with particularly useful secions on hand scraping of machine tools and the making of a laminated hammer. |
| TIAS.COM:
Collector's Showcase: Tools: Woodworking The Internet Antique Shop's offerings of many woodworking tools for sale. |
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Cringely | The Pulpit Robert X. Cringely's ca. 2007 predictions of the future (which is now, of course) including Google Owns Your Internet. |
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Galoot
Image Central ... Current version.
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Tips
and Tricks and Photos
Paul Womack's (a.k.a. Bugbear) interesting & useful shop tools and techniques for getting around those awkward moments. |
| sterling
handtools An (east) Indian site for woodworking tools and other vices ... |
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Glenn
McDavid: Woodworking
Links to various useful pages, ca. 2006, some of which have been archived ... |
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Don's
Machine Tool Web Page
Don Kinzer's metalworking tools, including a number of shapers. Also, there's a page of various machine manuals. |
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Bench
Plans
Keith Rucker on the building of a traditional workbench. A PDF of the building process is conveniently provided. |
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Explorers
Club of Pittsburgh - Bogel Memorial Fund
George Bogel and Robert Broughton were both killed by a rockfall while climbing Nanga Parbat in 1977. Professor Broughton was a committed environmentalist. |
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Hardinge
Inc. Collets, Chucks, Workholding Systems and Industrial Products
Everything you might want for a recently made hardinge machine tool ... |
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Logan
Actuator Co. - Lathe
Department
Logan still makes parts for their lathes ... however old they are. |
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Buffalo
Forge Co. Universal Iron Worker 55Y2617
Query from Marc H. Richman about the provenance of the machine. |
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Digital
Field Microscope
Specifications, ca. 2005, for this mysterious device. Still made by Scalar as the DG-3. |
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Stanley
Planes, Scrapers & Spokeshaves - Bob Kaune - Antique & Used
Tools
Comprehensive & informative website of a long-established Internet seller. |
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Slide rule dealers
Long list of Internet dealers in calculating instruments, many also archived by the Wayback Machine. |
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ToolSwap-USA
Home Page
Website of the defunct association of organizers, customers & operators of swap meets, including a listing of the physical addresses of a large number of old tool dealers. I still get periodic annoncements of a couple of California swap meets. |
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TOOLTALK
Home Page
"Preserving Arts and Skills of the Trades" is the aim of the renamed PAST organization, now hosted by Ken Greenberg. Listing of PAST tool collectors; listing of PAST old tool dealers; PAST members: A-J ... K-Z. |
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grandpa's
tool chest of wood planes
Bill Carter's webpage with listings of wooden planes, csarving tools, and other miscellaneous items, dating as far back as 1998. |
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Paleo
Notes May 2003
Current webpage of the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois. Lots of emphasis on the fossils (siderite concretions) of Mazon Creek. |
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A
Woodwork Notebook - Jeff
Gorman
Marvelous website of a Galoot who is fading into history; see especially his definitions of woodworking terms & jargon. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/shapeaholic/index.html
Pete Verbree's website as a collector/user of metalworking shapers & planers. Bonus: Link to the former New England Model Engineering Society (NEMS) website. |
| The
Hand saws of Harvey W. Peace Joshua Clark's dedicated saw page. |
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Links
for old tool research
Librarian Randy Roeder's collection of resources for learning about antique and unique tools. |
| Here's my
Netscape History version of the sites ... |
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The
Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Recent Acquisitions
Find out what sort of stuff America's foremost art museum likes to get ... |
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Alburnam's
Archive
Stephen Shepherd's comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of woodworking. |
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Horsefeathers & Hammermen
Hans Schlosser's blacksmithing site, dedicated to serious workers in metal. Lots of archival material ! |
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David
Stanley Auctions of Antiques Tools & Scientific Instruments: Tools
we have sold
Lists of prices realized in recent auctions. |
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Woodworking
supplies, tools,
plans, accessories, articles and more - Woodcraft.com
Selling tools since 1928 ... |
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Lathes
Millers Shapers Grinders
Manuals Handbooks Instruction & Parts Books Machine-tool Archive
Tony Griffiths' collection of everything you might ever want to know about old metalworking machines. |
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APT
** Association for Preservation
Technology ** APT
Preservation of architectural structures, it seems. |
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gallery3_1a.html
Cory Solar, whom I best remember as the Ghost of Christmas Past at Hedgerow Theatre. |
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Find it here
at southbendlathecorp.com
Archival data about the tools formerly made by South Bend Lathes. |
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Lathe
Milling machine shaper collet
parts
Dave Ficken's authoritative commentaries on old metalworking tools. |
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Library The late Jim Thompson, a.k.a. the OldMillRat, millwright extraordinaire, kept a gallery of interesting tools. |
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Amazon.com:
Tools & Hardware Search Results: drill
All the tailed apprentices you might ever want, but few hand drills. |
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Knowledge
Management
Mrs. Langford's list of links at her Knowledge Portal. The Wayback Machine will keep the links connected. |
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tool
index
Walt Q's antique tools business, formerly working out of a vinyl records shop in Waterbury, Connecticut. |
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Mic-UK
[site A]: Notes on choosing the correct eyepiece and relay lens for
photomicrography with a digital camera.
Ted Clarke's fine tutorial on matching the eyepiece of a digital camera to the sensor size of selected digital cameras. |
