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...
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...
15 minCollectingA Treasure Chest of Late-Nineteenth-Century Tools: John E. Kraus’s Tool ChestExcerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 60 no. 3, September 2007 by Jeff Neil Upon returning from a quilting “camp” my wife told me that she...
1 minCollectingColonial Homestead: A Midwest Tool MeccaIn almost every woodworking class I teach in Covington, Ky., there's at least one student who has driven through Ohio to get there who...
7 minCollectingThe New Rules for Ivory Containing Tools-RevisitedOn October 21st, 2014, I posted a blog on this website about the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Order 210 regarding the...
8 minTechnologyStanley Model Shop #278 Rabbet and Fillester PlaneThe Stanley Rule & Level Company was always interested in providing its customers with the tools they wanted. They were very adept at...
