• Recast Tools
  • A brass copy of a Stanley 71 Router (type 8)
  • An aluminum copy of a Stanley 271 Router
  • A bronze four inch wide router that looks like a one half scale Stanley 71 1/2! It's a copy of the original owned by St. James Bay Tool Company. It has the the name Andy cast into it with drafted letters.
  • A bronze copy of a Stanley #49 adjustable bit gauge
  • A bronze recast of a type two Stanley 45 This piece is very interesting as the entire body is a single piece- including the skate! Also notable, the two knobs on the fence that hold the rods in place have different threads and therefore cannot be interchanged.
• Antique Patterns
  • A chess set pattern!
  • A 6" anvil pattern
  • A mahogany pattern makers plane pattern
  • A Fire Hydrant pattern. Description: Patternmaker's model of a fire hydrant. I believe this one hails from Watertown, NY. Very nicely made example of what it was patternmakers did all day -- and most unusual.
    Update: The hydrant pattern is more likely a single cylinder, 2-cycle marine engine pattern!
  • A pattern that looks suspiciously like a lathe tailstock!
  • A two sided pattern board for something looking like a plumbing fitting
  • A Cylindrical shaped something or other complete with following board
• Books and Ephemera
  • Gates and Risers for Castings by Pat Dwyer
  • Elementary Foundry Technology Edited by Lawrence A. Hartley Second edition revised by Pat Dwyer and Edwin Bremer 1937
  • Tales from the Gangway: Random Stories from the casting shop that have entertained readers of The Foundry by Pat Dwyer
  • Modern Shop Practive 1941 8 volume set. Volumn 2 contains a section on Pattern making, volumn 3 contains a section on foundry work.
  • Pattern Making by G. H. Willard (1910 text book on pattern making)
  • Pattern Making by Ritchey and Monroe (1923).
  • Foundry Work part 1 and 2 American School Chicago by William Stimpson reprinted 1930
  • Exploring Patternmaking and Foundry Harvey D. Miner and John G. Miller 1939
  • Emmert catalog reprint
  • 1891 Pattern maker's publication: "Journal of Proceedings of the Pattern Makers' National League of North America. Fourth Regular Session Held at Chicago, Feb 2 to 6, 1891"
  • Fine Woodworking issue 26
  • Cast Iron Fittings for Iron and Steel Pipe. Kuhns Brothers Company Dayton, Ohio Catalog No. 18 1949
  • Traverse City fire hydrants and gate valves Traverse City Iron Works No. 17 (not sure of the year but their phone number is listed as WA 2-4714!)
  • The Complete Metalsmith by Tim McCreight 1991
  • Constructing & using Wood Patterns by C. W. Ammen
  • Foundrywork for the Amateur by B. Terry Aspin
  • The Backyard Foundry by B. Terry Aspin
  • Foundry Practice- Boy Scout Merrit Badge Series 1940
  • Bellfounding; Shire Album 212, by Trevor S. Jennings. Available at Martin J Donnelley Antique Tools
  • reprints of pattern making books most from Lindsay Publications:
    Update: it looks like Lindsay is not carrying many of these pattern making books
    • Advanced Patternmaking by The International Correspondence Schools
    • Core Making 1940 by Elmer F. Scott
    • The Pattern Makers Assistant by Joshua Rose (Astragal Press)
    • Practical Wood Patternmaking by J. Robert Hall
    • Wood Pattern Making by Herbert J. McCaslin
    • Pattern making 1905 "Lost Technology" Series. Reprinted from "Modern Engineering Practice"
    • US Navy Foundry manual
    • Making Crucibles by Vince Gingery
    • Uncle Dave Gingery's Shop Note Book 1
    • How I Pour Babbitt Bearings by Vince Gingery
    • Lathe work for beginners by Raymond Francis Yates
    • Secrets of Green Sand Casting
  • Booklets by Lionel Oliver II
    • The Flowerpot Crucible Furnace
    • Making Pulleys with hand tools... and casting them in metal
  • Pattern Supply Catalogs
    • White Metal & Brass Pattern Letters & Figures H W Kinght & Son Catalogue No. 26
    • Adams & Nelson Company Chicago Catalogue 19
    • Kindt-Collins Catalog L (circa 1940)
    • Freeman Supply Company Catalog No. 9 (1949)
• Fillet Tools
  • A set of fillet balls
  • detachable set of fillet balls
  • An unusual fillet plane (mounts in a vise). Here's a slideshow- created after receiving a request from Norway for more information about this!
• Other Pattern Makers Tools
  • A core box making machine
  • A bronze planer for a drill press.
  • A wooden handled round over tool. It has seven different tips marked with different radi.
  • 12" Starrett combination square with centering head and protractor head
  • A pattern makers tool box with key (auction catalog said sans key!)
  • Sissor calipers - niclel plated brass
  • A set of Starrett radius gages no. S167D
  • A small aluminum spoke shave (shown with the fillet plane above)
  • An aluminum bodied pattern maker's plane with 8 Stanley SW blades and 8 soles (rounds)
  • A brass bodied pattern maker's plane with 2 soles (one hollow, one round) and pattern for the plane body!
  • A set of pattern makers gouges
  • A small craftsman made aluminum core box plane
  • A Superior Works marking knife
  • A Stanely tape measure Not necessarily a pattern makers tool but still cool. It says "Charter Member Boltcutter's Club"
• Shrink rules:
  • A 1 foot Brown and Sharpe metal shrink rule 3/16" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Starrett no. 370 metal shrink rule 1/8" shrink per foot
  • A 2 foot Starrett no. 370 metal shrink rule 1/8" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Starrett no. 377 metal shrink rule 1/4" shrink per foot
  • A 2 foot Starrett no. 377 metal shrink rule 1/4" shrink per foot
  • A 2 foot Starrett no. 389 metal shrink rule 5/32" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Starrett no. 393 metal shrink rule 7/16" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Lufkin no. C-83A metal shrink rule 1/16" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Lufkin no. 83C metal shrink rule 1/10" shrink per foot
  • A 1 foot Lufkin no. 83F metal shrink rule 3/16" shrink per foot
  • A 2 foot Lufkin no. 83F metal shrink rule 3/16" shrink per foot
  • A 2 foot Stanley 30 1/2 E wooden shrink rule (S.W. Logo!) 1/8" shrink per foot

Foundry Items

• Three bronze tool for cutting gates in the sand.
• Lifters and other foundry tools

Modern Castings

• A 51 like shooting board plane I had cast in iron
• A 112 like scraper plane I had cast in bronze
• Type II of the scraper plane! (cast iron this time)
• A Man in the Moon cradle stop- see the cradle in issue 11 of Home Furniture or click here. There is more on the cradle I made here.
• A small flask cast at the iron foundry for the guy at the bronze foundry who casts all my parts.
• A 289 fence- click here for a picture of the pattern and castings!
• The logo of a foundy where I had stuff cast (sadly no longer in business).

• A 97 like chisel plane in iron
• A 52 like shooting board, hold down and quadrant cast in iron

Related Items

• Be sure to check out David Sawyer's pattern making tool page. His great grandfather was a pattern maker. (Some guys have all the luck :-) See also his new location
  Update: Neither link seems to be working.