Some backsaws.
The Oldtools listserve signup.
The Joiner's Bench Woodworking Page.
John Gunterman's Shavings.net.
My Timberframe Cabin Page. This page contains some links to woodworking related sites that I have found useful over the years. To get you started, The Electronic Neanderthal is a great source of old tool related info on the web. It is probably the best jumping off point for those looking for old tools resources. Below, I highlight some of my personal favorites, all of which I have found useful for my own purposes.
If you want to get in touch with a great all around old tool merchant, contact Patrick Leach at Superior Toolworks. He is a great source of original old tools, and of recently manufactured (by Superior Tool) tools of vintage style and functionality. I myself have one of his marking knives and one of his tilt plates for Emmert Patternmaking Vices to replace the same on vices missing the original plates. (To see one in action follow the link from my projects page to my workbench page.) Patrick's classic Blood and Gore at the Superior tool site is the best all around source of information on Stanley planes on the web. In its original form when posted on the rec.woodworking newsgroup it helped generate the increased internet interest in old tools.
Speaking of Emmerts, John Gunterman's "Shavings" Homepage has the instructions for mounting the second model on a workbench, as well as some other nice workbench related stuff. If it is marking guages that interest you, check out Ralph Brendler's Old Tool Page . Ralph also has a nice scraper sharpening tutorial. His site also contains the FAQ for the oldtools listserve. That list is devoted to discussion of the use and collecting of old hand woodworking tools and to a lesser extent metalworking tools. To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ruckus.law.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/oldtools or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oldtools-request@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
For a variety of old tool info, Tony Seo's The Joiner's Bench is a nice source of info. Gary Johns has a link to an Irwin Auger bit manual/catalogue on his homepage. Links to his site can be found on the sidebar.
Randy Roeder, has created a very nice Millers Falls Homepage, an educational site dedicated to the tools of the Millers Falls company. While not as widely used as Stanley tools, Millers Falls made some nice tools and Randy's site has the best info on those tools that I know of on the web. Miller's Falls eventuall bought out the Goodell Pratt Co. I have a partial reproduction of the Goodell Pratt catalogue on my oldtools page, linked through the sidebar.
