3 minCollectingA Unique Tongue PlaneFigure 1. A unique tongue plane purchased in Ohio. One the most interesting parts of the plane is the iron. Excerpted from The Chronicle...
4 minHistoricalSome Nineteenth-Century NotablesFigure 1. Advertisement for Boynton’s Patent Lightning Saws, 1878. Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 63 no. 2, June 20 by Patty MacLeish...
7 minManufacturingNailmaking in the Eighteenth CenturyFigure 1. Shouldering and drawing the shank. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 64 no. 4, December...
11 minHistoricalThe Stanley Companies Pictorial Promotions Circa 1860-1960Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 62 no. 2, June, 2009 by Roger K. Smith Brief History of the Stanley Company In 1858, the Stanley Rule &...
3 minCollectingA Field Guide For Leonard Bailey's Victor Block Planesby Paul Van Pernis After a series of ever more contentious disputes, Leonard Bailey left The Stanley Rule & Level Company in 1874 to...
3 minPop Corn For Sunday Night SupperIndian samp mortar, contrasted with other mortars. Shallow cavity. Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XVI no. 1, March 1963 by Mary Earle...