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Adria dovetail and tenon saws are guaranteed to
cut fast and track straight. They are handcrafted one at
a time and each saw is tuned-up and tested before
shipping. Each saw is guaranteed to make a full depth,
absolutely straight cut out of the box.
The hardness of the steel used for blades is RC52, which
is hard enough to guarantee long use and infrequent need
for sharpening. |
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Traditional style infill planes - Each
plane skillfully designed and built using old world
methods. Bodies of bronze, brass, or steel, carefully
hand dovetailed to a steel sole, and then fitted with
exotic woods. All components are hand-shaped and
assembled. |
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Bighorn Forge
Forging metal has become a passion and
a livelihood that has patterned my vision in life. I
have arrived at a stage where I no longer grapple with
the material. I revel in exploring the styles of the
past, as well as expressing new visions in metal. |
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Blue Spruce Toolworks, LLC
Blue Spruce Toolworks designs, manufactures and sells
only the finest quality woodworking hand tools. Blue
Spruce tools are a return to the cabinet shops of old,
where beautiful works were created by craftsmen working
quietly, skillfully, with hand tools at a sturdy bench
and with natural light streaming in through multi-pane
windows. |
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Bowclamp - Good Caul!
Modern technology, used to
realize an age-old idea... a perfect bow shaped arc.
The Bowclamp's patented design, made possible only with
the help of computerized numerically controlled cutting
technology, allows for equal and accurate clamping
pressure along the entire length of the glue line...
with only one clamp at each end! |
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Fine traditional hand tools made from
figured and exotic hardwoods-marking knives, awls,
cutting gages, bowsaws, and plane hammers. |
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H.N.T Gordon and Co - Classic Plane Maker of
Australia sold their first planes in 1995.
We are a small family business that
produces a range of hand crafted woodworking planes for
the person with craftsmanship in mind. Any plane
we make will be able to plane or scrape any wood without
tearout. We will only use high quality materials
with a simple appropriate design. |
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We've been at this since 1981, starting
out making knives and doing the craftsfair gigs, which
has got to be the toughest marketing work in the world.
The staff and students at James Krenov's Fine
Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods here
in Fort Bragg convinced me to re-tool to make plane
irons for them. |
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Holtey Classic Handplanes
I want to tell you about
one of Great Britain’s finest craftsmen. His name is
Karl Holtey and he makes the best British pattern planes
that I have ever seen. If I had to think of a single
word that would describe this man it would be
‘Perfectionist’. He follows in the footsteps of makers
with world renown, such as Stewart Spiers, Alex Matheson
and Thomas Norris. Jim Kingshott |
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We Make Fine Hand Tools for
Woodworkers. We equip our shaves with a pre-sharpened,
A-2 Steel blade. This steel is used because of its
exceptional ability to hold an edge and its durability.
Our standard and extra large size blades are hollow
ground on both sides, like an old fashioned straight
razor. |
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The hand
plane is an ancient tool, and its design has changed
little over time. I do not see myself changing it. I do,
however, borrow ideas from different cultures and
traditions, combining the best of them into a new and
better plane. I use Western, Japanese, and Chinese
traditions. |
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LIE-NIELSEN TOOLWORKS began in 1981 as
an effort to make top-quality hand tools available again
from a U.S. maker and to revive discontinued, but
useful, designs so the average woodworker could obtain
them. |
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Sauer & Steiner Toolworks was founded in early
2001 by Konrad Sauer and Joe Steiner. We had both been
building furniture for many years - and infill planes
were cornerstones of our furniture making. We loved
their feel, performance, aesthetics and the heritage
they came from. In 2003, Konrad Sauer became the sole
proprietor and plane maker at Sauer & Steiner. |
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Traditional Handplanes
High quality handtools,
especially handplanes, are hard to get. There are some
good handplanes available, but they can't really match
with the great toolmakers from the beginning of the 19th
century. Realizing that, I decided to produce them on my
own using my professional toolmaking skills and the best
materials I could get. |
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Wenzloff & Sons
While the saws we list are patterned after saws of our choice, we
really will make any saw one desires. For instance, we might be
making one patterned from one found in Moxon's book. As its size is
roughly the size of the small end of our large tenon saws [14"], its
pricing is based upon that saw. |
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...designs
and handcrafts tools for woodworkers who delight in
traditional woodworking. We craft durable tools that are
both practical and a pleasure to use. We seek to improve
traditional designs and to develop new tools that make
hand work easier and more efficient. |
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