Newsletters 1-71
- President's Message
- The Constitution
- Membership
- Future Programmes
- The Inaugural Meeting
- The Society's Address
- Woodworker Show
- Bibliography, & Other Projects
- Provisional list of Edward Preston marks
- Arthur Price, The last traditional plane-maker
- The Swedish King's ship
- English Bill-hook patterns
- Practical Plane Making
- William Gilpin
- Collectors Cornered - David Kendall-Carpenter
- Moving or Side Fillisters
- Collectors Cornered - Michael Taylor
- First Screw
- Bevel-uppermost Planes
- Dowels or Pins for drawbored joints
- How was the String Reddled?
- The Drawshaves of Woodland Craftsmen
- Repair and Maintenance of Books
- Plane Making Styles
- Sheffield Conference
- Charnley Forest Whetstones
- Carpenters' Paper Hats
- The Mystery of the Tectool
- Wheels: Dished or otherwise
- Photographing hand tools
- Interview with Dickie Dunstan
- Searching Patents for Historical Information
- How Joiners worked c 150 BC
- Fussell's Ironworks of Mells
- Aprons and Hats
- Poor and Fat
- The Lime Hole
- Lath and Plaster
- Gaging and working Cornices
- Ancient and Modern in the Eastern Counties
- The Mary Rose
- The Kentwell Bellows
- Workshop folklore
- Experimental Archeology:
Road tests for old tools - Collectors cornered
- Tools of the Mary Rose
- Toolmakers, Plane makers in particular
- The Smith & the Housewife
- Draw bore pins
- Short moulding planes
- The Carpenter's Rule
- A Group of Bakers in N Wales
- The Haymakers
- The Use of Dioramas
- A Load of Old Billhooks
- An Introduction to George Brereton
- The House Builders
- J and R Dodge
- Jesus, a basket maker
- Straw Plaiting
- Remains of a Craft Industry
- The Navvies
- The Drainlayer
- The Bricklayer
- Calling a Spade a B...y Shovel
- The Devil and the Twybil
- Derbyshire Scythe-Stone Industry
- The Roofer
- Plane-makers
- The Glazier
- Billhooks -The French Connection
- Lonodn Plane Maker (Wilkins)
- The Plumber
- Recording Ancient Timbers
- Intenrational Exhibition, Amsterdam 1869
- The Painters
- Plane Speaking
- The Sweetman Tool Box
- Planemakers in Brighton
- Dutch Planes to the British Pattern
- Apprentices
- Unrecorded Plane Marks
- The Bodger Axe
- Apprenticeship at T Norris &Sons
- More about Norris
- The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
- Cotswold roofs
- The Bookcase plane, the Reeding
plane and the Combmaker's saw - Collectors cornered
- Stail Engine
- Leather Bottles in Portugal and a maker in Spain
- Collectors cornered down under
- Peter the Great's Lathes
- The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
- Saws at Skoklosters
- The firm of Isaac Greaves
- Establishment of the London Postal Districts
- An Apprenticeship (Ted Horton)
- the Firm of Isaac Greaves Pt II
- Carty & Sons, Makers of Wooden Vats
- Another Coin Balance
- Leather History from Portugal
- A visit to Skoklosters Slott
- Leather Stories from Portugal Pt II
- Kentish Billhooks
- Tools for Ring Fitting
- In Praise of Second Hand Bookshops
- Kentish Billhooks Pt II
- Leather Stories from Portugal Pt III
- Butter Pat Planes
- The Pattern of Trade in a Welsh Mill
- Getting their own Back
- Tunbridge Ware
- The Rake Factory
- The Antiquity of Rip-sawing in England
- Three Trades for a Pair of Boots
- John.W.Waterer
- The Darby Thatching Needle
- Shears and Shearmarks
- An Interesting Old Lock
- Recording Toolmaker's Marks by candle smoke
- Old sugarloaf cutters
- Collectors Cornered
- Mary Rose tools
- An Estate Workshop and its Chest of tools
- Caution in cleaning
- The Lid of a Cabinet Maker's Tool Chest
- A Collecting Dynasty
- A "Saw Pit" at Newland, Cumbria
- Down to the Last Detail
- Boot and Shoe Trees
- The "Groping iron"
- John McColl, Gardener 1794
- Let's Take a Stab at It
- Decorated Bull Collars
- Tools' Trades and Gravestones
- An Intriguing Mug
- Computer- enhanced Smoke Prints
- The Herring Family of Toolmakers
- Wimbledon Windmill Museum
- Tools from a Superstore over 100 Years Ago
- Gilded Leather Wall Panels in Portugal and Abroad
- Charcoal Burning
- Not so Much a Rule - More a Vade Mecum
- Some Boatbuilders Tools - Adzes
- More on Planes and Planemakers
- Traditional Sail Maldon
- Have Lathe, will Travel
- Who made the Edge Tools for the Big Manufacturers?
- Rak Wing Compasses and Callipers
- More on Gravestones
- Contents of a Joiners Workhouse
- Netting Needles
- The Gablock
- Tool Hoard
- Paper Tool
- Lament for Luton
- Norwegian Boatbuilders'Clamps
- Wooden Wheels at the Royal Dockyards
- Granford or Wooding? - who knows?
- Preface to the Rules 1843
- Timber Measurement
- Wallpaper Trimmers
- Plush Weaving in Banburyshire
- Knife Making in Sheffield and the Hawley Collection
- Brazil Slot Adze
- the Rack Wing Compass - a follow up
- TATHS Bibliography Project
- The Whetstone
- Reeding planes
- Collectors cornered
- Gun Makers' Tools
- Two Pattern Books of George Platts and Son Ltd
- An Excellent Plane Innovation
- Naval Blockmaking
- The long and Short of It.
- The Cutty Sark Tool Exhibition
- Finger Planes
- How the New Forestoer made his Axe handle
- How to Restore a Steam Locomotive
- The Museum of Power, Pitsea, Essex
- A Screwed Up Tale
- Links between the Mechanics trades
- A curious square
- A double cock bead?
- Leatherworking and commonexpressions
- French Collection 2
- Burying a "Bernhard"
- The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds
- The Oakley Tool Works
- Blacksmithing and Surgical Appliances 1867
- Musings of a non plane enthusiast
- Similar Tools with a different purpose
- Sawmilling with a difference
- Tyzacks of Old Street
- The Case of the Missing Tool
- The Stuart King Collection at The Chiltern Open Air Museum
- The Cae of the Missing Tool continued
- Timber Measurements in the Bible
- The Work of a Museum Curator part 2
- A Literary Pin Vice
- A Gunnery Inclinometer & Rule?
- What a Collector
- The work of a Museum Curator part 1
- Leather Bookbinding and Gold Tooling inancient Portuguese Goa
- MissingTool - Case Solved
- Carpentry as it was
- How a Woman became a Timber Buyer
- The Cill Plane
- A Cornish Undertaking
- A Swiss Edge Tool Factory
- The Humble Glue Pot
- A Gunner's Rule - continued
- The Work of a Museum Curator
- An Interesting Home made Saw Set
- Fish Skin
- Paws for Thought
- Noah, the Devil and the Saw
- George Bretnall 1844-1931
- Grand Stair Master Classes
- A Tool for Roman Arithmetic
- Moulding Planes before Granford and 1700
- Bill Who?
- Looking into Holes
- The Whole(some) truth about this dog-matter
- Rust, Rust,go away!
- Notes on the revival of Maori Art - in particular Maori Wood Carving
- The Jointer-Pushed or Pulled?
- Recording Marks on tools
- Collectors Cornered
- 17th Century Brick Manufacture using Clamps at New Cross, London
- Cox and Owen
- The reproduction of a Roman Hammer
- A Curious Triangle
- A gunner's rule and quadrant (ad nauseam)
- Pioneers in Planemaking
- Tools- the Irresistible Temptation
- Coachmaker's Plough
- The Number's up for Matched Tongue and Grooving Planes
- The Humble Tool Bass, theTote, the Frail and the Toat
- Gabriel Plane - originalfit or modification?
- About Robert Sorby
- A Tree Bundling Machine
- 1997 - New England
- The Web
- A Gunner's Rule and Quadrant (ad nauseum)
- The Mead Mill Museum, Romsey,Hants
- Goosewing Axes(?) - a personal view
- At the Saw and Bag of Nails
- The Vanished Tool
- The Case of the Broken Anvil
- Looking into more Holes
- On the Making of Welded Steel Conduits
- Two Planes by John Kendall
- More circular Ploughs
- An Old Sawmaker
- Recollections of a retired Ironmonger
- Aladdin's Cave
- The Drum Maker of Vinh Long -Vietnam
- Mrs Hoa's Knife
- Sowing Seeds in the Falklands
- The Poker Arm Tool
- The Old Tools Museum at Horsham
- Tool Allowances
- New Marks for Madox
- Recollections of Cutting the Underwood in the '20s
- Model Tool
- Bossers, Screws and Scullers
- Tool Types
- Timber Measurement
- The Elusive Robert Trowell
- Planemakers Three
- More on I.Kendall Planes
- The "Vade Mecum Slide Rule" designed expressly for the timber trade by George Bousfield
- When is a Turf Mallet not a Turf Mallet?
- A puzzling Dutch plane
- When is a Moulding Plane Skewed?
- Griffiths - London? Rebate Plane
- The elusive Robert Trowell
- A Continental Axe
- The wooden cask - man's greatest invention?
- Coffin Making in Vietnam
- Treadle Lathes
- Another Continental Axe
- Planemaking in Thatcham and Winchester - a re-assessment
- An Ancient Greek Trombone
- Crook from England turns up in Australia
- Gads of Steel
- Precision Engineering - or just Schoolboy luck?
- Kerfing Saw or a Saw for kerfing?
- 16th Century Trestle
- What's an old Saw worth?
- More on Iron and Steel
- The Fussells of Mells
- Playing old 78 rpm recordings
- My favourite Artifact
- A Shepherd's Delight
- Spanners
- Wittering about Wittawers
- Lot's Wife
- Drawbore Pins
- Terres de Tradition - Memories of France
- Frame 2000
- The Art of the Scythe
- Travelling Apprentices
- Conserving old Catalogues and Booklets
- Paperconservation
- New Hall water mill
- Walton-onThames Automatic Telephone Exchange
- The Sheffield Year Knife
- Did the Varken ever exist in England?
- The Three legged chair; Retrospective thoughts
- Tools of the millstone dresser
More Newsletters 72- 119- Turning chair legs at Llandogo
- Newsletter No 1; a reproduction
- Some Tools that cut materials harder than themselves (Part 1)
- Stephens Patent Vise
- Albert Grellier’s leatherworking tools
- Review: Featherbeddes and Flock Bedds
- Closed Handle saws from 1690
- End of An Era.
- Video - Scythe Mill - The Manufacture of Scythes at Isaac Nash's Belbroughton Works
- It’s the pits
- Artistic leatherwork in India – the sandal makers of Kolhapur.
- Flint-knapping 21st century style
- Practical Gilding
- Ephemeral Tools from the Bronze Age
- Digging Bath stone with Saws
- Apprentice Pieces
- Tools which cut material harder than themselves : Pt 2
- The 1659 Probate Inventory of John Penney, Joiner
- The Archaeologist’s Trowel
- Two centuries of (Musical) instrument making in India – a visit to the Miraj workshops
- Waddesdon Manor Trade cards.
- The Manufacture of Surgical Instruments and Equipment
- London’s Strange Trades.
- English Mechanic October 15 1869
- English Mechanic October 29 1869
- English Mechanic January 7 1870
- Dating of Saws
- Saws by Davenport, Sheffield
- A 16th century German framing gouge
- An Old Tin Opener?
- Wood from the Trees at Amberley Museum 8th September 2008
- A Possible Tool from an Archaeological Excavation
- Planemaker Chance Son & Co
- Jost Amman Woodcuts
- Possibly a brass pestle?
- Wooden Chamfer Planes
- Any plough plane addicts amongst us?
- Two Unknowns from Lewes
- When did these go out of use?.
- The hand as a tool – the “tanning” of a sheepskin bag in northeast Portugal
- BILLHOOKS : part 1.
- Another Method of de-rusting Metallic Objects
- Billhooks Part II
- Engineering apprentice pieces and craftsmen made tools
- A Mathieson Catalogues in the Hawley Collection
- 18th century saw stuff: taper grinding and brass backs
- Finding the Familiar: Dealing with Artifacts of the Modern Age
- Ball Clay Mining Tools
- Derbyshire Toolmakers
- Saws in World War I
- Relative Tool Pricing
- On Slate I - The Pren Mesur
- On Slate II - Slate fencing: a vanished art
- The Art of the Scythe
- Walking on History: the life of Jose Ameixnha, shoemaker
- Old Dog, New Tricks
- When was a sawmaker not a sawmaker?
- Witch Protection Marks
- Confessions of a Tool Collector
- 18th Century small bore plough planes
- An Osland Plane
- The "Wood" Humpbacked Try Plane
- A HEMINGS Moulding Plane
- More on that Slater's Size Stick
- Leather sandal making in India: another look at its artisans
- Concealed Maker's Marks
- Multiple Makers' Marks
- A couple of odd plane irons
- Some unusual styles of planes
- The Atkins Family: Three centuries of Toolmaking
- Paper mill De Schoolmeester (The Schoolmaster)
- Petworth Clockmakers
- The Twyford Blacksmith’s Accounts
- Horrible Prospect for Sheffield's Young Grinders
- What is a Hand Tool?
- Two Early Planes
- An 18th century plough - but who actually made it?
- Brunel’s Polygraph machine
- Some mid-20th century Tool makers Labels
- File Cutter's Disease
- ELLISDON & SON.
- An interesting micrometer.
- BUILDING TRADE WORKERS AND NEW ZEALAND
- TRAINING OF APPRENTICES (1939).
- Found in Canada, A Rare Bell & Fisher Whitehaven Moulding Plane
- WERTHEIM, Franz Freiherr von
- THE APPRENTICE JOINER 200 YEARS AGO
- Ames, Ducan & W.D
- Some Variations in Mechanical Nail-Pullers.
- Arrangement of tools in a Farmers Toolhouse
- Plane Speaking
- Little Mestor
- J.B.BANKS & SON Ltd, Cockermouth, Cumbria
- Spoon Augers and hook tools
- Hall of Tools, Amberley
- Chisel-like tool
- Fencing wire straightener
- Brass hammer head
- Four Minor Bath Planemakers
- A backsaw by Christopher Gabriel
- The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
- The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools Revisited
- A Shovel maker in Chesham
- Three generaitons of wood and leather carvers
- De-rusting with common molasses
- An "Armour" Plane
- british and Irish Inventories: a bibliography of Published Transcriptions of secular Inventories
- Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
- Glass Cutters, with a brief history of flat glass
- Ironwork in medieval Britain; an archeological study
- The Joiner's Rod
- Fretting over Restoration
- British Planemakers from 1700 - an update
- An Adjustable Dado Plane by Mathieson
- Fiddles and Fireproofing
- Some notes on the trade of Mason in the Middle Ages
- Old Oldham Workshop
- Story of a Wheelwright
- Around the Bard
- keeping tabs on our changing language: tools
- Memories of a Royal Dockyard Joiner Apprentice
- Tool Types
- The Flower Girl of Bievre
- Four centuries of Dutch planes and planemakers
- The Trade of Aircraft Fitter and Rigger
- Diderot
- Credit cards are tokens of good faith [17th century coinage]
- It's Quite Safe to Come to Sheffield nowadays! [19th Century Trades Unions]
- Rust removal
- More on aircraft repair
- Edward Presotn & Sons , the final years
- Not a whaling saw
- Sailmakers' seam rubbers
- Two Important Collections of trade Cards
- The IFFI Table
- John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
- Leather - the end of the Road?
- Ropeworking Tools
- Did Early Seafarers use Magnetic Tools to Make a Compass?
- Walter Taylor and the Circular Saw
- Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick
- Bread 4d per Gallon More
- Canvas- Working Tools
- Who was Lupton?
- A Queen Anne window
- Oilman
- Patents Research at the British Library
- Rope
- Brushes and Brushmaking
- Turpentine not White Spirits
- Dear John Waterer Part II
- The Quandry of the Churchwarden Trademarks
- Two Good Reasons to Visit Birmingham
- Brushmaker or Tramp?
- Office Tools
- Northampton Shoe Museum
- Inscription on a Tombstone.
- Tools on Swedish Stamps
- Ox-bows & Ox-yokes
- Willow Square manufacture
- Civil War tool prices
- Goodby Grandad’s Attic
- Trades found in London circa. 1600
- The Knife Cleaner
- Steel Pen manufacture
- Tool Myth and Legend
- Artists Tools : Painters & Sculptors
- Tools are made and meant to be used
- New Smoke Marks Recorded
- History of Router Planes
- The Nailmaking Process
- Trades found in London circa 1600 - Some comments.
- Two courses of interest
- A unique collection of Ultimatum Braces at the Hawley Collection
- Comments on Robert Towell Planemaker. By John Thorvald Krause
- The Wheelwright and his Axe: a contribution from Alan Wharf
- A chat with Harold William Sizer, Mat maker, Haverhill, Suffolk. 2002
- Willow Square Manufacturing - an Update
- The Saunders Collection
- Keeping it in the family: A history of Harrison Bros. & Howson, Sheffield cutlers
- Does “We*ve always done it that way” ring any bells?
- Wherries.
- Resin Tappers
- An old photograph
- Now Re -Tyred
- A”Tarbox Bros” product identified
- A TATHS Christmas card from John Cottrell
- Robert Towell -Metal Plane Maker
- Beet Stabbers and Root Knives
- A Greek Blacksmith
- History of Saws
- An old lathe
- Mystery (winding ?) machine
- Robert Sorby & Whaling
- Spear and Jackson marks
- Traditional Plane Blades
- Ewbanks Patent nails
- Richard Jones’ Nail Collection
- A List of Nail Manufacturers
- Acid Etching on Saws
- A further note on Etching
- The Wimble
- An extract from the Will of William Lange, brassfounder, 1594
- Iron, Steel and their variations and Alloys
- What is Cryogenic Steel?
- The Rockwell scale of hardness.
- Iron Skew in Wooden Moulding Planes
- A Dissenting view on Technical Leaflet 1
- Odd Jobs
- A Correction regarding ‘WESTPHALIAN FINING’
- Another Turn of the Wood Screw
- An Early Medieval Ulster Monument with Two Cooper`s Tools
- Craftsmen as the Brains of the Machine
- Nailing in the West Midlands
- More on Saw Steel
- Sorby Tools
- Butcher’s knife maker
- J.J. Cordes Limited
- An interesting tool box
- Account Books Can be Fascinating
- A Knife-edged Saw
- More on Spear & Jackson Marks
- Recovering Silver and Gold Residues
- Cheyney Hammers
- Double Maker-Marked Moulding Planes
- London makers of Sailmakers’ Tools
- Steel and Saws
- Churchill Forge, Worcestershire
- Nail Puller
- Rule for the Blind?
- Collapsible roofing Square?
- KEW IN SPRINGTIME
- Sending a Saw to Sheffield
- Nailmaking in France
- Tool Ancestry
- Moulding planes marked LONDON (zb)
- The TATHS Logo, a history.
- 19th century woodworking machinery & Organ building
- Medieval Axe sold for £19,360.
- Fish Traps.
- Japanese moulding planes
- Another 17th century jointer?.
- Churchill Forge and Scythe-making on Video NL 91
- Making a mark
- A Mid-Atlantic Saw.
- Belper Nailers
- Women Nailmakers in 19th Century Scotland
- Isle of Wight Hedgelaying competition 2006.
- Courses in Building Conservation
- Re- The Archaeology of Sawing
- How to Modify a Spokeshave for Paring Leather
- A Guide To The Temperment(sic) Of Old Tradesmen
- ‘Ollers & Rounds’
- Cork Cutting.
- A Fijian Axe from Lyons?
- The Archaeology of Sawing:: a response from an Archaeologist of Woodworking and occasional Sawyer
- Not Bookbinder’s Tools.
- The old craftsmen might be dead, but where are their records ?
- A set of Mystery Tools from the Hermitage Museum, St Petersberg
- A document of the Inquisition of Lisbon, dated 1610:
- Restoring bookbinder’s Georgian brass line rolls
- Which Way To Turn? - The Complete Nut
- 100 Years of Adjustable Spanners in Birmingham
- Some Notes on the History of Scythe manufacture
- Mr SAMUEL BEEDON'S Hollows & Rounds
- Draw Knives - a typology problem?
- A Plane Story from Bob Graham
- Of the ‘Slang’ weights and measures
- Red House Stables museum
- Blacksmith-made edge tools in Sussex and Kent
- The Copying Press
- The Garret Masters
Even More Newsletters 130 0nwards- ‘Wood from the Trees’ at Amberley.
- Family tree for Spear & Jackson
- A Greenhouse and a Glazing Gun
- HORSE NAIL MAKERS
- Mapledurham Mill : A Montage Of Views
- The Miller of Mapledurham 1982 - present
- Who Keeps the Crambo, and what is it?
- Goodyear Welted Leather Shoes
- A Liverpool Style Sailor’s Palm
- Heel Tools - some further notes
- A Quickie For The Rule Collectors
- Group Visits
- A Michaelmas Poem
- Gunton Sawmill
- Prior & Pryor Punches
- Marples Tool Chest
- Oil Cans book review
- The Steel Trade
- Grinling Gibbons’ Carving Techniques
- The Parser
- Those Were the Days!
- Minutes from the AGM 2016
- The 2016 Conference in Photographs
- The Conference Speakers
- The Mark Lees Memorial Lecture
- Ropemaking
- The Cinderella Saw
- Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
- John Butcher
- Obituary
- Coal Miners’ Safety Lamps
- Strumpshaw Wood Fair
- To Autumn
- Tool Exhibition at Radstock
- Another Source of Trade History
- Bentley Woodfair
- Anglia Group Meeting
- Better Tool Grinding
- Practical Jerry-building
- George Brentnall
- Barley Cocking Forks
- Saw Sharpening Course Review