Online Tool reference material

• DATAMP - collected tool patents
• American braces (all makers)
• Disston saws(1)
• Disston saws(2)
• Emmert vises
• Hardware Store own brands - Simmons, Shapleigh, Winchester etc.
• Stanley marking gauges
• Stanley Planes
• Secondary index by number to the above
• Secondary index by catagory/use to the above
• Stanley Bedrock Planes
• Cross reference of plane model codes for various manufacturers
• Mathieson infills
• Norris infills
• Millers Falls mitre (AKA miter) boxes
• Millers Falls - drills and planes
• Model No 2 and Model Nos 1,3,5 Millers Falls Egg beater Drills type studies
• North Bros (Yankee tools) list @ MWTCA
• Ohio and Atkins
• Josh Clarke's old advertisement scans
• Rose Antiques scanned catalogues(many brands, large inline images)
• 1897 Charles Strelinger & Company Catalogue, scanned in
• Buck (chisels)
• Toolmera Press (Gary Roberts) - Early catalogs, adverts, tradebills
• Witherby (chisels)
• Simonds (saws)
• Record
• The old tool shop storage bin of reference material
• Old Books
  Because these also contain reference info
  • The OLDTOOLS book review site
  • Knights 1881 mechanical dictionary
  • Modern Machine Shop Practice Vol. 1 By Joshua Rose(hosted at Michegan State U)
  • Modern Machine Shop Practice Vol. 2
  • Making Of America (hosted by Cornell U); Manufacturer and Builder is the most relevant

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