The chest was found in Mastrmyr on the the island of Gotland, Sweden in 1936. More than 200 objec...

Here is the first book to identify American builders of planers, shapers and slotters, who operat...

'The book' of Christopher Gabriel, planemaker and tool seller in London from 1770 until 1809, has...

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A valuable directory that illustrates and lists over 1000 fully-indexed patents, covering all Ame...

Through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th, barrel makers followed the same pa...

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John Whelan unlocks the fascinating secrets of an almost lost art: wooden planemaking. For those ...

This is a reprint of the complete 1938 Catalogue No 15 of Record Tools together with an introduct...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recog...

This book was written in 1881 by William N. FitzGerald, a veteran of the carriage industry, was t...

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Lang:- English, Pages 142. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long bac...

With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly ...

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In the hopes of 'preserving these delightful devices for future generations,' this collector of s...

In Colonial America, silversmiths produced objects of great merit, crafting everyday articles wit...

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Once again, Ken Cope has produced a major new reference work that broadens our range of understan...

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This combined reprint of Volumes 1 and 2 of the 1892 edition of Practical Carriage Building is pe...

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