Future Home of None Such Tool Werks
For now it's just Russ' home page (the original was
http://home.xnet.com/~rcallen/)
My interests
Casting/Pattern making
- Casting
- Pattern maker's tools
- One of my pattern makers planes
Doesn't everyone have more than one? A second pattern
maker's plane is listed in the patterns section.
- Roover's embossing press
(it was used to make the metal strip above)
- Router Planes
Page o' router planes no two the same so I
couldn't possibly be a collector!
- fillet plane slide show- created after
receiving a request from Norway for more information!
- A patented machine for making core boxes
- Core box plane
- Shrink rules
- a graphically intense montage of the rest of my
collection
- Patterns
- My chariot plane pattern.
- My fire hydrant pattern
Or is it? One reader suggests it's a pattern for a
single cylinder, two stroke engine.
- Cast iron doorstops
Is it a doorstop or chisel plane?
- my anvil pattern page
- Scraper plane project for Scott Grandstaff.
This plane is shown in the recent Tools & Shops
issue of Fine Woodworking! (issue 174)
- A scraper plane similar to a Stanley 112
- my other pattern makers plane and pattern
- My son's cradle (yes it required a casting!)
- my bronze scraper plane 12" version of a
Stanley 112
- my second attempt at a scraper plane this time
in iron.
- molding plane parts
- Foundry Tools
- On pattern making
Patents
- A patented router part and other patent info
- My patent related display
from the Fall 2005 mwtca (Mid-West Tool Collectors Association) national tool meet.
Don't let the name fool you- there are members in every state. It started in the Midwest
40 years ago.
- A patented machine for making core boxes
- I'm guessing I'm the only one on my block who has one
- A patented forge and blower I came across in Mesa Arizona
- A little bit of information on The Lauber patented tool handles.
Miscellaneous
- Important update:
Some of Jim Kingshott's grandson's tools
have been stolen. Details here
- If you've vistited my
Kingshott Shrine
page you will know how horrible this is to hear.
- Galootapalooza (annual Oldtools
get together)
- perfect screw driver repair
- The ultimate in extreme makeovers!
- letting an emmert clone into a
workbench
- take a stand on whether to have an Emmert clone stand
proud of the bench or let into it
- my preston mitre templets
- with a little catalogue help from a guy down under. Thanks Tony!
- An infill plane I traded for
- The Arlington Heights Historical Society
- My involvement with Habitat For Humanity
- My summer vaction making a wooden plane
- Links to plane makers I know
- Wayne Anderson infill maker
- Tod Herrli- wooden
plane maker (and instructor) extraordinaire. (note new url)
- Tod's video and now DVD are available from
ALP
Productions Note the video to dvd upgrade offer! Reminded me of the joy of sending in cereal box tops as a child.
Other woodworking titles are asloavailable from them.
- Wooden plane makers Old Street Tool, Inc.
formerly
Clark & Williams
- St. James Bay Tool Company
metal planes and kits etc