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Books I Own (or Want to)Tools
Choosing and Using Tools Andy Rae
The Bandsaw Book Lonnie Bird
The Handplane Book Garrett Hack
Making and Mastering Wood Planes David Finck & James Krenov
Making Traditional Wooden Planes John M. Whelan
Toolmaking for Woodworkers Ray Larsen
Joinery
Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction Andy Rae
The Complete Dovetail Ian Kirby
Woodworkers
Thomas Moser: Artistry in Wood Thomas Moser and Brad Lemley
James Krenov: Worker in Wood James Krenov
With Wakened Hands: Furniture by James Krenov and Students James Krenov
A Cabinet Maker's Notebook James Krenov
The Furniture of Sam Maloof Jeremy Adamson and Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof: Woodworker Sam Maloof and Jonathan Pollock
The Soul of a Tree George Nakashima
Nature, Form & Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima Mira Nakashima
The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940 - 1990 Curators of Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Furniture by Wendel Castle Davira S. Taragin
The Custom Furniture Sourcebook: A Guide to 125 Craftsmen Kerry Pierce
General Woodworking
Understanding Wood R. Bruce Hoadley
Wood and How to Dry It Fine Woodworking
Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking Vol. 1 & 2 Tage Frid
Measure Twice Cut Once Jim Tolpin
Setting Up Shop: The Practical Guide to Setting up Your Dream Shop Sandor Nagyszalanczy
The Impractical Cabinetmaker James Krenov
The Nature and Art of Workmanship David Pye
The Woodwright's Shop Roy Underhill
Complete Illustrated Guide to Working with Wood Andy Rae
Furniture
Furniture by Design: Lessons in Craftsmanship from a Master Woodworker Graham Blackburn
American Furniture: History, Technique and Structure Jeffrey P. Greene
Gentleman & Cabinet Maker's Director  Thomas Chippendale
The Fine Art of Cabinet Making James Krenov
The New Yankee Workshop Norm Abram
Workbenches
The Workbench Lon Schleining
The Workbench Book Scott Landis
Boxes
Fine Decorative Wood Boxes Andrew Crawford
400 Wood Boxes Sterling Publications
Complete Illustrated Guide to Box Making Doug Stowe
Making Heirloom Boxes Peter Lloyd
Treasure Chests Lon Schleining
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Woodworking and Related Bookmarks
Associations
- National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI)
Benches
- Bob Key's Bench Pages
- Brian's Bench Page
- Cliff's workbench pages
- Danny Bingham's Shaker-inspired workbench
- David Savage's narative on building workbenches
- Ed Runci's cabinetmakers bench w/ shoulder vice
- Garrett Lambert's functional modern bench
- Garrett Wade
- Image of a finished bench w/ Veritas Double Screw and holddown
- Jim Shaver's Traditional Shaker workbench
- Keith Rucker's Bench Plans
- Larry McVoy's bench building odysey
- Stephen Andrews’ Sapele Woodwork Bench
- Workbench Design Home Page
- WorkbenchPlans.com Tips
Book Lists, Magazine Articles, and other Resources
- Books for the Connoiseur
- Canadian Home Workshop Online - Visit our forum
- David Savage's Published Magazine Articles
- Fine Woodworking magazine
- In the Woodshop: Woodworking with Howard Ruttan
- WoodNet Forums: Viewing list of forums
- WoodNet.net - The Woodworker's Online Resource
- Woodwork Magazine
- Woodworking books furniture plans and videos for woodworkers
- Woodworking Magazine - Notes from the Shop
Boxes
- Andrew Crawford - Exquisite fitted boxes
- Build a Simple Puzzle Box - Amateur Woodworker
- Historical Review of The Medieval Chest
- Quagmire Puzzle Boxes - Making Puzzle Boxes
- Wow! Super Fine Puzzle Boxes - KAGEN SCHAEFER
Clock and Musicbox works
- Selva Shop: Uhren, Geschenke, Bastelbedarf, Uhrenteile,Werkzeug, Bücher einkaufen
Design Resources
- designboom - Industrial Design Today
Finishing
- OldTools Archive -- getting started with shellac
- The World's Finest Shellac, Information Sheet
Furniture
Galleries
- Pritam & Eames, The Gallery of Original Furniture
- Treadway/Toomey Galleries - December 5, 2004 - 20th Century Art & Design Auction
- Treadway - Toomey Auctions_20th century decorative arts
- Antiques Leo
- Carterhall_ 18th Centeury Antique Reproduction Furniture_home_page
- Handbook of Texas Online: FURNITURE
- The Furniture Society Home
Restoration
- Tips for Furniture Restoration
Hardware
- Lee Valley Hardware
- Rockler Hardware
- Tremont Nail Company 800-842-0560 - Steel Cut Nails for Authentic Restoration Projects and Remodeling
- Van Dykes Hardware
Hidden Compartments
- Adding a Hidden Compartment to Cubbies
- Hidden Drawer in a chest
- Hidden Compartment Furniture for Sale
- Article on hidden compartments in Antiques
- The 10 places to create a hiding space (not all involve woodwork)
- 18th Century Mahogany Tea Chest Fitted with a Secret Compartment, Circa 1780
Instruction
- Andrew Crawford - Tuition by arrangement
- College of the Redwoods fineFURNITURE
- David Savage Year-long program: finefurnituremaker.com
- North Bennet Street School
- Rosewood Studio-Instruction in Fine Woodworking
- Shinrin Takumi Juku
- The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts
- The Windsor Institute - Windsor Chair Classes by Mike Dunbar - Hampton, NH
- Worcester Center for Crafts - Workshops
Instruments
Guitar making
- Alan Carruth, Luthier
- Allen Guitars, Mandlolins, Resophonics & Luthier Supplies - Luthiers Shop Tour
- Classical Guitar Construction in the style Antonio Torres replicating La Suprema 1864 with tornavoz and plans by an American Swede
- Kathy Wingert Guitars - fine hand-made signature acoustic guitars and custom stringed instruments.
- Project Guitar.com :: Guitar Project.com
- Research in guitar acoustics
- Waverly Tuners
- Brent Santin on making a Bodhran
- Making a Bodhrán and Accessories
- Musical Instrument Makers Forum
Joints
- Home-made Mortise Jig
- Jeff Gorman's Dovetail articles
- Jeff Gorman's Mortise and Tennon articles
- Many links on How to Hand Cut Dovetails - Alan Foust
Lighting
- Lighting the Shop - WoodCentral
- Office Depot - station lighting (Commercial)
Looms
- Building a 36" Hand Loom (pdf)
- Building an Inkle Loom (my narrative)
- Handweaving Looms - Schacht Spindle Wolf Pup
- How to Build a Frame Loom
- Inkle Loom: Lessons Learned / In Use (my narrative)
Metalworking
- Galena Village Blacksmith Shop
- Metal Characteristics
- The Practical Machiniste - Manufacturing Forum
Oseberg/Gokstadt Beds
- Wareham Forge plans for Gokstadt bed
- Marvelous Viking recreation photos including 2 of Gokstadt bed replica
- Viking Age Woodworking - furniture includes Gokstadt and Oseberg beds
- Another set of Gokstadt Viking Bed Plans
- When last I checked there were known errors in the measurement of the slats.
Project Ideas
- Camlock Tripod
Shop Ideas
Flooring
- OldTools Archive -- thread with message 145161
Sites about or by woodworkers
George Nakashima
- designboom - biography of george nakashima
- Official George Nakashima Web site
- PBS essay - George Nakashima: Spiritual Woodworker
James Krenov
- Official James Krenov Web site
- great pictures of current work in Latest Piece section.
- James Krenov gallery at College of the Redwoods Web site
Sam Maloof
- A day with Sam Maloof
- An American Craftsman | THIS OLD HOUSE
- Gallery of Maloof's work at architonic.com
- Online Exhibition of Maloof at University of La Verne
- Online componant of exhibition atthe Millard Sheets Gallary - Sam Maloof
- Breakfast with Sam Maloof - interview
- Smithsonian online exhibit: includes quotes, pics, video clips
- Oceanside Museum of Art - Sam Maloof
- Sam Maloof: Soul of the Hardwood
- Image of Maloof's front gate
Sites that help market woodworkers
- Custom Furniture, Woodworkers and Cabinetshops Custom Made .com
- New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association
- Andy Sargent's (Galoot) workshop
- Blood and Sawdust - Medieval Woodworking
- Bucky's Virtual (Galoot) Shop (and tool foundry?)
- BugBear's (Galoot) tools and project pages
- Carleton Woodworking - Visit the Workshop
- Christopher Swingley's (Galoot) Woodworking Pages
- Cornish Workshop (Galoot)
- Darrell Pert - Greene & Greene style furniture
- David J. Marks (Commercial)
- Dongil Kim - Small site, good (Galoot) work
- ferrazzutti - contemporary furniture: great pictures
- Geoff's site for students of (mostly Normite) woodwork
- George's (Galoot) Basement - George Langford, Sc.D.
- Hundreds of Woodworking Links (maybe you'll find it here?)
- Hyperkitten.com (Galoot)
- In the Woodshop: Woodworking with Howard Ruttan (Galoot & Normite)
- Great mix of hand and power. Extensive site.
- Jeff Gorman (Galoot) - great general resource
- John Makepeace (Commercial)
- Larry Hepler furnituremaker (commercial)
- Many links on How to Hand Cut Dovetails - Alan Foust
- Mark Lackley, Furniture Maker (Commercial)
- Michael Egbert Furniture Maker (Commercial)
- Good wood shots with descriptions
- Norse Woodsmith - outstanding (Galoot) site
- Old Tools Woodworking: (Galoot)
- Peter Lloyd - box maker (commercial)
- Peter McBride (Galoot) tools and items of interest
- Ralph Brendler's Old Tool Page (Galoot)
- Robert Gasperetti Furniture Maker (Commercial)
- shavings.net - (Galoot) projects and wisdom
- The Galoot's Progress - Thomas Price (Galoot)
- The Jointer's Bench (Galootish)
- The Woodbutcher's Shop - (Normite extraordinaire)
- Even has a listing of all the tools used in the New Yankee Workshop catalogued by episode and frequency of use.
- WoodCentral
- woodwardwoodworks - Allan Young (Commercial)
- Woodwright's Shop: How-To from St. Roy
Tools
Bench Tools
- Building and using a Mitre Jack
- Garrett Wade
- Phil Koontz: makes really nice holdfasts
- Traditional Bench Holdfasts - Woodcraft.com
Carpenter - required tools
- A Normite's finish carpentry wish list
- Required Tool list for students of a Timber Frame Construction school
- Tool list for working stage carpenters
Carving tools
- Affordable carving knives and gouges at dennyknife.com
- Also sells blade only if you prefer to make your own handles.
- Scandinavian Woodcarving Knives
Lathes
- About Medieval and Renaissance Lathes
- Discussion of Home made wood turning lathes at Musical Instrument Makers Forum
- Homemade Wood Lathe
- Intro to Wood Lathes
- Springpole and Treadle Lathes defined at Woodwright's Shop
- The Taig Lathe and Milling Machines (Metal working)
Lubricants
- Kroil to loosen frozen metal parts
- Kano - Makers of Kroil
Making Tools
- Do-It-Yourself Heat Treating: Thoughts from Ron Hock
- Filing Saw Teeth - A Primer from vintagesaws.com
- Making a Butt Hinge Mortise Plane
- Making a Miniature Emmert Replica
- Making a Wooden Spoke Shave by John Gunterman
- Making Your Own Gravers by W.R. Smith
- Wooden Plane Making: step-by-step from College of the Redwoods
Planes
Makers and Retailers
- Anderson Planes - Fine Handmade Planes
- These will make you wish you were a millionaire. I'd like one of each, please.
- Darrell Chapnick Plane Classics
- dick.biz - german woodworking supplier: hobel (planes)
- Knight Toolworks - Home Page
- Wooden Planes: Ohio Tool Company - History
Plane Irons
- Hock Tools: Blades for Planes and Hand Woodworking Tools
- Lie-Nielsen Toolworks | Replacement Plane Blades
- Plane Iron Tests: Science or Mental Illness?
- Converting a Wooden Smoother to a Compass Plane
- Hand Plane basics from Wikipedia
- Hobel (Planes) - An impressive collection in Germany
- How Old is that Stanley Bench Plane?
- Image of Stanley Router No. 71 - All Parts
- This is the image that should be linked to the Stanley Tools website when you look at the No. 71. Instead they have accidentally linked to the image of a No. 4.
- It's Good for Your Sole - Bugbear's guide to flattening
- Making a Butt Hinge Mortise Plane
- Merits of the Millers Falls Type 1 Bench Planes
- Old Tools discussion of Sole Flattening
- Patrick's Blood & Gore - the definitive online list of Stanley planes
- Plane sole scraping - Another Method
- Sargent and Company Planes
- Tuning A Hand Plane - from yesterdaystools.com
- Tuning a Handplane - Badger Pond
Power Tools
- Old Woodworking Machines - Online resources for classic machinery
- Old Woodworking Machines - Other Resources
- Tips on rebuilding a Dewalt radial arm saw
Retail / Resale Tool sites
- Ace - Toro Brand Shop: Splitting Wedges: Estwing Sure-Spit Wedge (E-5)
- Adria Woodworking Tools - High Quality Hand Tools
- Antique & Used Tools - Bob Kaune
- Boat Building and Woodworking Supplies - Jamestown Distributors
- Bridge City Tool Works, a division of Fine Tools, LLC
- Crosscut Saw Company
- Diefenbacher Tools Home Page
- Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools
- Grainger: Industrial Supply, Material Handling Equipment, Tools, Safety Equipment, HVAC, Lighting and More
- Highland Hardware - Tools for Woodworking
- Hock Handmade Plane Irons, plane blades
- ilovewood.com
- Japan Woodworker Catalog - Japanese Tools
- Klingspor's Woodworking Shop / Abrasives
- Knight Toolworks - Home Page
- Lee Valley Tools
- McMaster-Carr - Super Hardware Store
- Micheal Donnelly - Live Free or Die Auction
- Mini Branding Irons
- NUPLA Splitting Mauls, Wedges and Axes
- Peter McBride tools
- Rose Antique Tools old tools and history
- ShinwaRules.com - Japanese layout and measurement
- Shop DoItYourself.com for Wedges Sledges Axes and Mauls Lawn and Garden at The Internets Largest Hardware Store for Home Repair and Household Products
- Shopsmith - Double Bar Clamps
- Spehar Toolworks
- Steve Brackett's Old Tool Web site
- The PlumbBob.com, MASTER LEVEL brand contractor and carpenter levels. Hand tools of highest quality
- The Shepherd Tool Company
- The Yard Store, Vixen Files
- traditionalwoodworker
- Welcome to JapaneseTools.com
- Welcome to St. James Bay Tool Co.
- Woodcarving Store A complete wood carving and wood burning resource on line.
- WoodJoy Tools, fine woodworking tools
- Woodworkers Supply
Saws
- Bugbear's Shop Made Bowsaw resource page
- Building a Stair Saw - Darrell LaRue
- Crosscut Saw Company (commercial)
- Image of a beautiful and unusual contemporary bowsaw
- Image of a beutiful bowsaw made with a coping blade
- Miter Saw fix
- Old Mitre Box discussion on Old Tools list
- Sharpening and Grinding service
- The Saw Set Collector's Resource
- Woodworker's Supply saws (Commercial)
Sharpening
- Boggs Tool & File Sharpening Co. (Commercial)
- Sharpening and Grinding service
- The D&S Scary Sharp(TM) System
Tool Chests and Cabinets
- Blanket Chest w/ Hidden drawer (sorry, no tools)
- Bob Keyes' Tool Cabinet
- Bob Keyes: More Tool Storage
- Contemporary H.O. Studley style Tool Chest
- H. O. Studley - excerpt from Treasure Chests
Chisels
- Restoring A Chisel
Axes
- Welcome to Gränsfors Bruks
- Making and axe handle
Gages and other measurement or markup
- OldTools Archive -- message 36724
Miniature Tools
- Hand Crafted Miniature Tools
Reference Resources
- A Millers Falls Tools resource
- Altes Handwerkzeug (old handtools)
- DATAMP - Directory of American Tool and Machinery Patents
- Metal Characteristics
- Museum of Woodworking Tools - Lobby
- OldTools Mailing List Control Panel
- OldTools resources edited by George Langford, Sc.D.
- TAKENAKA CARPENTRY TOOLS MUSEUM
- The Electronic Neanderthal Woodworker
- The Saw Set Collector's Resource
Manufacturer's Pages
- Brown & Sharpe | Driven By Precision
- General Tools Manufacturing Leader in Specialty Hand Tools
- The L.S. Starrett Company - Quality Precision Innovation... since 1880
- Makita Index Page
Eggbeaters and Braces
- BIT BRACES
Radial Arm Saw
- Mr. Sawdust Presents "How To Master The Radial Arm Saw"
- Fine Tuning Your Radial Arm Saw By Jon Eakes.
- Overview of rebuilding a Dewalt RAS (pdf)
Turning
- Gulf Coast Woodturners Association
Wood
- A start for choosing good wood - OldTools Archive
- Downes & Reader Hardwood Co. - Stoughton, MA
- greenwoodworking home page
- Northland Forest Products
- Photo and Description for Woods
- Photo reference for exotic woods
- Rex Lumber Company - Wholesaler
- Riving Wood for 17th Century Joint Furniture
- Sawmills Near Boston - Yahoo! Yellow Pages
- Woodfinder: Your Source for Lumber, Veneer and Sawmill Services
Old Tools Log In Page
What is a Galoot? - Wikipedia entry
Woodworking Information at WOODWEB
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