Reference and Archives
Our references page includes links to Tools and Related Organizations, Dealers, Individual Sites, Archived PATINAGRAM newsletters, and downloaded forms.
Tool and Related Organizations
- Early American Industries Association - formed to study and preserve the tools, trades and crafts that built America.
- Mid-West Tool Collectors Association - worlds largest tool collecting organization
- Collectors of Rare And Familiar Tools Society of New Jersery - purpose of encouraging interest in early trades and industries and fostering the identification, study, preservation and exhibition of early tools and implements
- Society for Wooden Planes - advancement and sharing of knowledge concerning newly discovered, undocumented, and ill-documented American wooden plane makers
- Washington Woodworkers Guild (WWG) - the premiere woodworking organization serving Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
Selected Dealers
- The Best Things - The website of Lee Richmond, one of the web's premier antique tool dealers.
- Fine Tool Journal - This is a publication that combines tools for sale and auction with some useful articles.
- Martin Donnelly Antique Tools - largest marketer of antique tools in the world.
Individual Sites
- A Plane Life - The website of Greg Ricketts who has done extensive research on Plane manufacturers, and provides links for his Re-Japanning and Stanley plane replacement products.
- Time Tested Tools - Another Greg Ricketts website featuring information dealing with wood planes.
- Electric Neanderthal - An important site for the old tool user and collector.
- The Superior Works: Patrick's Blood and Gore - Website of Patrick Leach listing pictures and descriptions of vintage Stanley Planes.
- The Sargent Planes Page - A detailed history of vintage Sargent Planes, featuring pictures, type studies and estimated market value.
- Just The Plane Facts - A study, research and history of Millers Falls Company planes
Archived PATINAGRAM Newsletters
- May 2016 - Volume 39 Number 3 (PDF)
- March 2016 - Volume 39 Number 2 (PDF)
- January 2016 - Volume 39 Number 1 (PDF)
- November 2015 - Volume 38 Number 6 (PDF)
- September 2015 - Volume 38 Number 5 (PDF)
- July 2015 - Volume 38 Number 3 (PDF)
- March 2015 - Volume 38 Number 2 (PDF)
- January 2015 - Volume 38 Number 1 (PDF)
Downloadable Forms
NOTE: THESE ARE LINKS TO PAGES BELONGING TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH PATINA.
