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The American Association of Woodturners
- AAW was formally organized in 1986 and has grown
quickly to its current size with 11,400 members. |
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Atlantic Tool Collectors Association
The Atlantic Tool Collectors Association was
formed in 1994, with 21 charter members. Since then the
membership has grown to more than sixty members from
across Canada and the United States.
Our association was formed with a view to promoting
public interest in the history and preservation of
antique and collectible hand tools in the Atlantic
Provinces. |
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In 1977, a small group of tool
collectors formed
Collectors of Rare And Familiar Tools Society -CRAFTS.
The purpose of the Club is to encourage interest in
early trades and industries.
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The purpose of the Early American Industries
Association, Inc. is to encourage the study and better
understanding of early American industries in the home,
in the shop, on the farm, and on the sea.
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OWWM
The Old Woodworking Machines web site is devoted to
information on the history, restoration and use of
vintage woodworking machinery. This site has been
developed through contributions by many enthusiasts of
antique iron. |
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The Hardware
Companies Kollectors Klub - THCKK is a not-for-profit organization
formed in March of 1996. It distributes information and
provide an interactive forum about historically
interesting hardware companies. |
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The Mid-West Tool Collectors
Association is an international organization. Our
purpose is the study, and preservation of the early
tools, implements and devices used by our ancestors. |
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The Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers
is an association of professionals and amateurs bound by
a common interest in woodworking. |
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The Guild of Oregon Woodworkers,
founded in 1982, is a non-profit volunteer organization
comprised of approximately 40% professionals and 60%
amateurs and hobbyists of various skill levels. |
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The Potomac Antique Tools and
Industries Association, Inc. is an educational,
tax-exempt organization for people who have an interest
in the tools, crafts or manufacturing processes of the
past. |
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The club was originally formed as
EAIA-West, the western branch of the Early American
Industries Association (see the Links page) in 1968.
Arnold Gordon and Matt Matheson invited potential
members from a list compiled by John Fryberg of Los
Angeles, as well as from EAIA sources. The first meeting
was held June 2nd, 1968, at Arnold Gordon's home. |
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The purpose of Rocky Mountain Tool
Collectors (RMTC) regional club is to promote the
collection, restoration, study, and understanding of the
tools of early trades and crafts and to share this
understanding. |
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The purpose of the Southwest Tool
Collectors Association is to promote the collection and
exchange of tools, implements and devices used by our
forefathers, study and share knowledge concerning these
objects. |
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Woodie
The Society for the Preservation and
Study of American Wooden Planes |
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Australia |
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The Hand Tool Preservation Association
of Australia provides a forum for discussing traditional
tools and the way in which artisans of the past worked
with these tools. |
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TTTG is a non-profit organization
dedicated to the study, conservation, collection, and
use of craftsmen's' tools of all kinds. |
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United Kingdom
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British Antique Furniture Restorers'
Association is the national
organization of craftsmen and women concerned to
maintain the highest standards in the field of antique
furniture conservation and restoration. |
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TATHS was founded in 1983 to further
the knowledge and understanding of hand tools and the
trades and people that used them. |
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Netherlands
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Ambacht en Gereedschap
was founded in 1991 and means: Crafts &
Tools.
One of our founders and sadly deceased Gerrit van de
Sterre wrote the
book about 4 centuries of plane making in the
Netherlands, this book has
been published bilingual (Dutch-English). |
