Antique Woodworking Tools

Antique Wood working Tools: "Existing since or belonging to earlier times". That's how Websters Dictionary describes "Antique". Just thinking about it, that pretty much covers everything.

Just looking at some of the old planes and drills makes you wonder about it's history, the first proud owner, and what it helped build. Furniture, cabinets, or houses or maybe all of the above. Wouldn't you love to pair up some of the projects with the tools that helped build them!

When I start thinking of one of my tools as an "antique", or I run across a old tool that I must have, then those tools start getting a prominant place on my tool board or in my toolbox.

My definition would be those (old) tools that have been replaced by power tools. Example, wood planes are in almost everybodys' woodshop, still very useful but seldom used, replaced by a electric router, planer or sander.

When you become a true collector of antique woodworking tools just having an old tool isn't enough. That's when you start becoming curious about when it was made, where, by what company, and so on. You do a patent search and by then you don't have anyone that wants to hear about old tools. Your wife smiles and tunes you out. Your friends are thinking that they'd rather borrow the power tools anyway.

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