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Ted Cole Obituary

Ted Cole was born on 8 July 1945. He grew up in Bristol, where he was trained as a joiner. He worked for the Co-op, doing shopfitting in their many stores before everything gave way to metal and plastic. Later he ran his own joinery business, carrying out a wide variety of commercial and domestic w…

Ted Cole Obituary

29 November 2023

An unknown Saw maker

An Unknown Saw Maker The Cut All Swivel Saw I recently acquired the object shown which claims to be a Cut All Swivel Saw. I had never seen this tool before and was keen to learn the age and maker. A good clean with a wire brush on a Dremel reveale…

An unknown Saw maker

Another Tool Chest with an interesting front panel

Richard Cooper offers an interesting addition to the Warrington Chest story:

Another Tool Chest with an interesting front panel

12 February 2018

Mortising Axe or Billhook

Bob Burgess has kindly allowed us to reprint his 2012 article on Mortising Axes, Twybills and the like. Well worth a read. To read the original article, please click here

Mortising Axe or Billhook

10 January 2018

The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools Revisited

Reprinted from Newsletter 118, Winter 2012 You can see Roy Underhill's article on the poem itself, published in Newsletter 118 here John Clark I was pleased to see that NL 118 reprinted Roy Underhill’s version of the anonymous poem of about 1500 known as “The Debate of the Carpenter’…

The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools Revisited

30 December 2017

Sumitsubo 墨壷

Something different for the New Year: two Sumitsubo墨壷 (すみつぼ) (Japanese ink pots) from my collection.

Sumitsubo 墨壷