4 minTechnologyEarly Methods of Grinding PaintExcerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Sept. 1965 by Alexander Farnham For our early ancestors, the stone and muller, fig. I,...
6 minManufacturingStanley Model Shop Tools: Stanley No. 87 Cabinet Makers Scraper Plane PrototypeThe subject of this piece is a prototype for the Stanley No. 87 cabinet makers scraper plane (Figure 1). It will be described and...
5 minManufacturingSargent 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...
7 minHistoricalTen Things You Might Not Have Known About Lowell, MassachusettsWith the 2019 Early American Industries Association Annual Meeting coming up in a few months, here are some interesting tidbits of...
7 minTechnologyLeonard 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...
2 minManufacturingLittle-Known Anvil MakersBy Clayton Ray Postman’s 1998 book, Anvils in America, is a landmark in the study of American anvils. He documented all of the major...