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LINKS TO ANTIQUE HAND PLANES BY MFG

Chaplin's Patent Plane

Chaplin's Patent Plane

Chaplin's Patent Plane

Customers have questions, you have answers. Display the most frequently asked questions, so everybody benefits.

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Fulton Tool Co.

Chaplin's Patent Plane

Chaplin's Patent Plane

 

The premier source for information on  Fulton cast iron hand planes.  Developing type study, articles on model identification and history.  Hand plane refinishing.  Galleries of Fulton hand planes.  Restored planes for sale.


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Millers Falls Tools

Chaplin's Patent Plane

Excellent resource for Millers Falls Tool Company hand planes.  Type studies, illustrations, bench, block and specialty plane details.

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1943 Millers Falls Factory Tour Video

1943 film by employees of the Millers Falls Tool  Co. plant at “Erving Side”. It is hosted by local historians Ed Gregory  and Richard Shortell. Together, they provide an excellent narrative of  the technology and community surrounding this rare film. 

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Ohio Tool Company

Ohio Tool Company


Hosted by the purveyor of one of the largest collection of Ohio hand planes.  Models, Type Study, plane for sale.  Developing web site for Ohio plane enthusiasts, collectors, or the curious.

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Record Planes

Ohio Tool Company

 The definitive resource for Record planes online. Here you will  find a wealth of information, diagrams, statistics and photographs of  all the planes, routers and spoke shaves originally marketed by C & J  Hampton under the Record trade mark. 

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Record Hand Planes

Australian, David Lynch, Esq, has been collecting and researching Record tools for over 40 years.  Visit his site to share in his knowledge

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Sargent & Others

Sargent planes and so much more.   Site host, Don Wilwol, literally wrote the book, or books, on Sargent hand planes.

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Sargent Planes

Stanley Hand Plane Type Study Tool by Wood & Shop

Site dedicated to assisting  collectors, sellers and users in identifying the many types of  woodworking planes that were manufactured by Sargent & Company over a 77 year period from 1887 to 1964. 

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Stanley Hand Plane Type Study Tool by Wood & Shop

Stanley Hand Plane Type Study Tool by Wood & Shop

The easiest to use, automated Stanley bench plane type study tool.   Quickly narrow down the era of your Stanley plane as you answer questions by the tool.

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Stanley Type Study by Hyperkitten Tool Co.

 Site dedicated to vintage tools and woodworking. 


Stanley hand plane type study.


General information on Stanley Planes, the Harvey W. Peace company, and many vintage tool-related advertisements.


Vintage woodworking  hand tools over in the  Tools for Sale section. .  

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Stanley Liberty Bell Type Study


The New Wolfden Woodshop 


Stanley Liberty Bell hand plane type study by Robert E. Ziegler. 

Liberty Bell Type Study

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Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Bob Kaune

Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

Excerpt of the Stanley Bedrock plane type study by Bob Kaune.  The complete type study is available for purchase on Bob's website.

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Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

Another Stanley Bedrock type study based largely on Bob Kaune's work.

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Union Mfg. Co.

Stanley Bedrock Type Study by Virginia ToolWorks

William Marples & Sons

 Union Manufacturing Company was founded on August 30, 1866 in New  Britain, CT. Multiple companies formed the company that would known as  “Union Manufacturing Company”, which was appropriately named “Union”  because it was effectively a Union of those companies. The formation of  Union Manufacturing Company was as a support Foundry and Machine Shop.  Union Mfg manufactured a vast number of products.  

William Marples & Sons

William Marples & Sons

 This site is dedicated to what was the foremost tool manufacturing firm in Sheffield, England for over 200 years. ​

The site admin has collected nearly every Wm. Marples catalog produced.

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Woden Planes

 The Steel Nut & Joseph Hampton Limited, of Woden Works, Franchise Street, in Butcroft, was founded in 1851.

Woden planes appeared on the market in early 1954, around 18 months after the acquisition of  Birmingham hand plane manufacturer W. S. Manufacturing Company. 

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WS Manufacturing Company Ltd., Birmingham, England

 Relatively unknown 1900s hand plane manufacturer.  A site dedicated to collectors and enthusiasts interested in furthering a type study of this maker. 

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More to come...

More to come...

More to come...

 Do you have a favorite site not listed here?  Email the link to me at aPlaneLife@comcast.net and I will add it.


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