Early Tools & Tool Collecting

Whether you collect antique hand tools or have a passion for machinists' tools we have the book for you. Learn about collecting wooden planes, or how to restore your antique hammer, or what your rule collection is worth in the books listed below. Or kick back and enjoy long-time tool collector and dealer, Herb Kean's stories of tool collecting adventures in his book Tool Tales!

• 40 Power Tools You Can Make

• American Cooperage Machinery and Tools

• American Foot Power and Hand Power    Machinery

• American Lathe Builders: 1810-1910

• American Level Patents Illustrated and    Explained

• American Levels and Their Makers

• American Machinist's Tools

• American Marking Gages

• American Milling Machine Builders

• The American Patented Brace

• American Planer, Shaper & Slotter Builders

• American Steam Engine Builders, 1800-
   1900

• American Wrenchmakers, Revised 2nd Ed.

• Art of the Edge Tool

• The Axe and Man

• British Planemakers From 1700, 2nd Ed.

• Buying and Selling Antiques and Collectibles on    eBay

• Carriage and Wagon Makers' Machinery and Tools

• Christopher Gabriel and the Tool Trade in
   18th Century London

• The Chronicle DVD

• Classic Period of American Toolmaking 1827-1930

• Collectible Hand Tools

• Collecting Antique Tools

• Dictionary of American Hand Tools

• Dictionary of Leather-Working Tools

• Dictionary of Woodworking Tools

• Directory of American Toolmakers CD-ROM

• Everyday Artifacts

• A Field Guide to the Makers of American    Wooden Planes

• Grimshaw on Saws

• A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden    Planes, 4th Edition

• Henry Disston & Sons Handbook for    Lumbermen

• The History of Old Time Implement Companies and the Wrenches They Issued, Volume I

• The History of Old Time Implement Companies and the Wrenches They Issued, Volume II

• Horse Drawn Plows and Plowing

• Keen Kutter Planes

• Making & Mastering Wood Planes

• The Mastermyr Find

• More Makers of American Machinist's Tools

• Murlands Antique Tool Value Guide

• A Museum of Early American Tools

• Old School Woodshop Accessories

• The Pattern Maker's Assistant

• Paul Kebabian: Writings on Tools & Toolmakers

• Plane Talk

• Planemakers of Western Pennsylvania and    Environs

• The Planer Truth

• A Price Guide to Antique Tools, 4th Edition

• Prices Realized on Rare Imprinted
   American Wooden Planes

• Registry of Maine Toolmakers, 5th Ed.

• Restoring Antique Tools

• The Rule Book

• A Source Book for Rule Collectors

• The Stanley Combination Plane

• The Stanley Little Big Book (Planes)

• The Stanley Little Big Book (Rules, Levels, & Other Tools)

• Steel- Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques before 1870

• Tool Tales: Stories and Tips for the Antique       Tool Collector

• Tools: A Guide for Collectors, 2nd Ed.

• Tools and Their Uses

• The Tools That Built America

• Vintage Woodworking Machinery

• Vintage Woodworking Machinery,
   Volume Two

• The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form &    Function

• Wooden Plow Planes

• Woodworking Tools