Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc. - Tool Chest Article List: 1989

Hand Tool Preservation

Association of Australia Inc

Antique & Collectable Hand Tool Market

The next Antique & Collectable Hand Tool Market will be held on Sunday 21^st April 2024 9am to 12:30pm.

St. Anthony's Parish Hall
164 Neerim Rd, Corner Neerim & Grange Rds, Caulfield East, VIC 3145 (Melway Ref. 68 F4).
Ample street parking or public transport: Frankston train, 600m from Glenhuntly Station
or # 67 tram from University, 310m walk from Glenhuntly Rd.

Sellers are HTPAA members only and members of the public are welcome.
Entry is $5 per person.

COVID-19 rules as applicable at the time will apply.

TOOL CHEST- February 1989 to November 2000

The Tool Chest ~ a thirty-two page journal published and distributed by mail four times a year to members. The Tool Chest includes original articles on aspects of tool collecting and maintenance, with particular emphasis on research into Australian tools. Also reviews of relevant publications, details of interesting finds by members, ongoing debates about tools and their use.

The Contents are split into 2 pages. Articles in each isssue of The Tool Chest are either listed below or articles from issues 59-current can be found here. Alternatively you can simply click on a number to jump to the Table of Contents for that issue.

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TOOLCHEST # 58 - November 2000

Article	Author	Page
Some Notes on Window Making	Roy Fuller	1
A Personal Perspective	Jim Donaldson	6
Some Notes on Rules, and Some Rules of Note	Frank Ham	8
Engineering in History - Kirby, Withington, Darling & Kilgour	Book Review	14
Have Hand Tools Had Their Day? - Letters	John Bates	16
Hand Leather Craft - Based on a talk by Hans Unger	Doug McIver	18
Shipwright's Adze? - Letters	F. Murrell & D. Stevenson	22
Early Australian Toolmakers	John D McDonald	24
Hand-saw Makers of North Americaby Erwin L. Schaffer	Book Review	29
A Robert Prenzel Carving Sold	Doug McIver	30
Flag Baskets and Carpet Bags	Ken Turner	31
What Does a Gympie Hammer Look Like ?	Ken Turner	32

TOOLCHEST # 57 - August 2000

Article	Author	Page
My Silcock Patent Combination Plane	Gordon Chenery	1
A Personal Perspective	Jim Donaldson	6
Tracking Bailey Tool Co. Spokeshaves	Tom Lamond	9
The Axe and Man by Charles A. Heavrin	Book Review	12
The Finch Foundry, Sticklepath, Devon, England	Judith Lawrence	14
Letter from Mike Hendrikson, OAM, Wheelwright		16
The Tools of Intellectual Property	Mark Wakeham	18
Robert Prenzel and Woodcarving at Glenormiston	Doug McIver	21
A Whatsit from the West	Des Miller	24
Billhead - Eyres Brothers of Ballarat		25
Disposal of a Collection	Doug McIver	26
Mystery Item No Longer	Jim Wilson	29
Shipwright's Adze?	Bob Wallis	30
References for the Articles on Coachmaking	Jim Badger	31
What's an Old Saw Worth?	Ken Turner	32

TOOLCHEST # 56 - May 2000

Article	Author	Page
Classic Sheep Shearing Handpieces	Jim Donaldson	1
Have Handtools Had Their Day?	Pub. Committee	6
HTPAA Tool Conference 2000	Frank Ham	8
Fencing and Wire Strainers	Lyle Ruddell	11
More on Mast Gauges	Rick Mitchell	18
Problems and Progress while Collecting Wooden Handscrews	Milton Boyd	20
Cake Decorating Rule	David James	25
Making an English Coach	Jim Badger	26

TOOLCHEST # 55 - February 2000

Article	Author	Page
Tools for Bush Furniture	Alan West	1
The HTPAA from 2000 on	Editor	6
Spills & Spill Planes	Frank Ham	7
Wrenches	Ian McIntosh	9
Spanners and the Lithgow Small Arms Museum	Desmond Miller	14
Update on Australian Makers	Rod Thomas	17
Refine Your Collection	Alvin Sellens	21
Restoring Antique Tools by Herbert P Kean	Book Review	25
Bevels & Tapers	Watson Cutter	26
Dry Stone Walls	Doug McIver	29
The Melbourne Chair Company	Trevor Rowe	31

TOOLCHEST # 54 - November 1999

Article	Author	Page
A History of Coach Building in Australia	Jim Badger	1
HTPAA - 16 Years Old	Editorial	11
The Other Baileys	Frank Ham	12
Manufactured & Patented Spokeshaves & Similar Tools by Thomas C Lamond	Book Review	14
Dating Moulding Planes	Editor	16
Titan Wood Chisels	Rod Thomas	18
Ringers, Hogs and Shoats	Kenneth E. Turner	26
More Makers of American Machinist's Tools by Kenneth L Cope	Book Review	28
Craftsmanship and Discrimination	Kenneth E. Turner	29
Mr Disston's View of Saw Nibs	Editor	32
Wooden & Metal Spokeshaves - 4 page insert	Thomas C Lamond

TOOLCHEST # 53 - August 1999

Article	Author	Page
Scales and Balances	Laurie Lewis	1
Judging the worth of a Tool	Editorial	8
Why is is Antique	Watson Cutter	9
English Shepherd's Crook in Australia - Part 2	Ken Turner	12
Patternmaking Today - A Visit to a Modern Pattern Maker's Shop	W Cutter & D McIver	17
Knifemaking in Sheffield & the Hawley Collection by R Grayson & K Hawley	Editor	22
More on the Slater's Rest	Bill Strid	23
Metal Equipment Manufacturers P/L (MEM)	Nigel Lampert	26
Australian Axes - AUSAXE - Maker - Dave Shaw	George Radion & Dave Shaw	27
Six Tools in One - The Stewart Handyworker	Watson Cutter	30

TOOLCHEST # 52 - May 1999

Article	Author	Page
Coopering and other Skills	George Smithwick	1
Editorial - Four Years of the Publications Committee	Editor	5
Chinese woodworking Tools in Victoria	Kevin Chamberlain	6
A Patternmaker's Vice	T Roger	19
The Handplane Book by Garrett Hack	Book review	17
Barker Brothers - Cutlers, Melbourne	Editor	22
English Shepherd's Crook in Australia - Part 1	Ken Turner	23
Travel, Tools and the Lynn Historical Trust	Roy Fuller	27
Screwdriver of Turnscrew	Frank Ham	29
So, you think you have Spotted a Tool Collector	Laurie Lewis	31

TOOLCHEST # 51 - February 1999

Article	Author
Chinese Cabinetmakers in Australia	Kevin Chamberlain
A Chinese Cabinetmakers in Melbourne	Frank Ham
Editorial	Editor
History of Surgical Instruments	Frank Ham
Through much Tribulation: Stewart Priers and the Planemakers of Ayr by Nigel Lampert	Book review
A very Unusual hammer	Laurie lewis
The Duyfken Replica	Jim Black
World Competition to Ascertain the Best Saw and Axe	Val Quanchi
Metal Equipment Manufacturers P/L (MEM)	Rod Thomas
More Makers of American Machinist's Tools by Kenneth L Cope	Book review

TOOLCHEST # 50 - November 1998

Article	Author
Editorial Comment	Publications Committee
Development of Sheep Shearing Machines in Australia	James Donaldson
Craftsmens Wage Rates in 1096	no attributes
Nothing New under the Sun	Janet Kidd
The Term of a Patent	no attributes
Rules - Their History & Collection	Frank Ham
A Scotsman, His Tools and Their History	Jim Black
Jas. McLaren - Australian Planemaker	Rod Thomas
Practical Blacksmithing Vols 1 - 4 by M T Richardson	Book review
Saw & Bag of Nails	Kenneth Turner

TOOLCHEST # 49- August 1998

Article	Author
The Rise & fall of the Western Saw - talk by George Ingham	Editor
Marking Gauges - a means of Achieving Woodworking Precision	Watson Cutter
Repousse - What is it?	Watson Cutter
A Price Guide to Antique Tools 2nd Ed by Herbert P Kean	Book review
Making Musical Instruments - talk by John C Dale	Editor
West Australian Whatsit?	Editor
Spot the Tool Collector or How to Recognise one in a Crowd	Watson Cutter
The Humble Tool Bass, the Tote & the Toat	Kenneth Turner
More about Bast	Doug McIver
What is New Today in 1889	Editor
S & O Handee Products - Pressed Steel Block Plane (& H C Vaughan)	Rod Thomas

TOOLCHEST # 48- May 1998

Article	Author
The HTPAA Tool Conference	Frank Ham
The Way of the Carpenter, Tools and Japanese Architecture talk by Proff Coaldrake	Editor
The Mathieson Mystery talk by John McDonald	Editor
Australian Planemakers 2nd Editionby Trevor Semmens	Book review
The Agricultural Adze	Alan West
Christopher Gabriel and the Tool Trade in 18th Century London by Jane & Mark Rees	Editor
Carter Update - 1998	Rod Thomas (& others)
The Steel Company of Australia (SCOA) - Steel Founders	L Burchell & W Cutter
Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry by Jeff Taylor	Book review
Mystery Plane - (looks like a corrugated cement sheet cutter)	Editor
S & O Handee Products - Pressed Steel Block Plane (& H C Vaughan)	Rod Thomas

TOOLCHEST # 47- February 1998

Article	Author
The Stanley Catalogue Collection Vol 2	Book review
Missing Tools	Michael Potter
The Slaters' Rest and a Dog	Kenneth Turner
Tailors Measures, Rules and Squares	Frank Ham
Patternmaking	Doug McIver
Corebox Planes	Editor
Dictionary of Woodworking Tools by R A Salaman	Book review
W H Blakeley & Co - 1922 Advertising reproduced	Editor
Drawknives - Bevel Up or Bevel Down?	Doug McIver
If Some Tools Could Only talk	John Daniel
Mathieson Mystery	Colin McPharlin
T & M Woolley, Sydney - Planemaker or Merchant	Editor

TOOLCHEST # 46 November 1997	TOOLCHEST # 45 August 1997
Article	Article
It's All in a Name by Ken Turner	The Art of Blacksmithing: Book Review
Test Your Imagination	Miller Cyclone Tools by Rod Thomas
The Mystery has been Weighed Up	In Search of Wheelwright's Toolchests by Jeff Powell
A Lucky Find by John Daniel	John Derrett, Miniature Plane Maker by Tony Deffett
The Number's Up for Matched Tongue and Grooving Planes by Watson Cutter	An Interesting Axe by Gabe Bognar
'Select' Planer Razor Blade Tool by Rod Thomas	Tool Word Derivations by Watson Cutter
Book Review: For the Smithy	The Best Tape Measure?
Joiners, Supporters and Passionate Barrackers	John Donkin's Patented Saw by Frank Ham
The Number One - Cute and Useful by Clarence Btanchard	Design of Hand Drills
More Tools - With Knobs On! by Michael Potter	Restoration of an Ebony Brace by Kees Klep
More About Flying Spanners by Bill Strid	Moulding Planes by Des Miller
Wooden Shoes of Holland by Rod Jerard	"Sunshine" Australia
	Tools, and a Desperate Doctor by Ken Tumer

TOOLCHEST # 44 May 1997	TOOLCHEST # 43 February 1997
Article	Article
The Cill Plane, by Jane and Mark Rees	The Humble Oil Can
Finger or Thumb?	Cobb & Co. Coach: an Australian Icon
"HEARTBEAT" and Hand Tools	Surform Type Planes and Rasps - An Exercise in Genealogy?
Flying Spanners	Book Review: Making Traditional Wooden Planes
Book Review: Antique and Collectible Stanley Tools - Guide to Identity and Value	The History of My Collecting
Memories of My Apprenticeship Days, by Jim Black	What is it or why is it?
Elegy on a Suburban Tool Chest, by Roy Fuller	Book Review: The Legend of Stanley
Design of Hand Drills	Moulding Planes - Getting with the Strength
Pattern Making, by Frank Ham	Finger Planes
My Nightmare	Sharpening Moulding Plane Blades
Spokeshave or Spokesheaf	Tannic Acid Production
Woodstock, by Rod 7homas
The Scrap Vice

TOOLCHEST # 42 November 1996	TOOLCHEST # 41 August 1996
Article	Article
Davelco vs Davleco	Screws and Screw Threads - Part 1
Thos B Linley and H.P.L.	Unusual Plane by Gleave, Manchester
Letter about Sash-Scribing Planes	Robert McConnell - Man of Many Talents - Part 2
Turner (Aust.) - Origins, Trademarks, Diversity & Demise	China at Work - book review
Screws and Screw Threads - Part 2	The Making of Window Sashes
Identification Table for Stanley Block Planes	Pope Products - History - Pope & Falcon Planes
Trade Marks and Patents - Whittingslowe -Steell Block Plane	Thos B Linley - info wanted
Robert McConnell - Man of Many Talents - Part 3	Paradiso- Camberwell - humorous look at the junk market scene
Skew-Backed Handsaws (Henry Disston)	Davleco
Plane Facts No 4	Silex & HFH
The Nature of Tool Design	Brace yourself for the Boring Bits
The Craft of Masons
Tool Word Derivations - Auger & Gimlet

TOOLCHEST # 40 May 1996	TOOLCHEST # 39 February 1996
Article	Article
First HTPAA Australian Tool Conference	How did People Manage Before Rabone?
Folding Rules - A Symbol of Continuity	Organisation of Crafts, Trades & Labour Part 1
Robert McConnell - Man of Many Talents - Part 1	Museum of the Goldfields - Kalgoorlie
The Starrett Wheels that led to more Wheels	Centre Bits
Coffinmakers	Silex Tools - with some catalogue reprints
The old Sea Dog Trick (Homour)	Visit by Roger K. Smith
My Tool Collecting Experience	The Aboriginal Stone Axe
Fine Work with Few Tools	A Marking gauge design
Measurement of Barrels and Estimation of Capacity	Brisbane Bowsaw Maker - W B Gower
Organisation of Crafts, Trades & Labour Part 2	More on Carter Planes
The Saw Part 2	Song of the Carpenter - verse	A Collectors fate - Humour
Whittingslowe - Pressed Steell Block Plane	A Dictionary of Australian Manufacturers - Part 2
Some Carpenter's Hammers	Plane Facts No 3

TOOLCHEST # 38 November 1995		TOOLCHEST # 37 August 1995
Article		Article
Letters - Barker Bros, Sash Scribing Planes, Dragons Blood		McPherson's - From Pig Iron to Machine Tools & Printing
John Buncle - A Melbourne Pioneer Manufacturer		Folding Rules Part 2
Aboriginal Tools		I Make the Best Hammer That's Made (-Adz Eye Nail Hammer)
A Day in the Life of a Tool collector		The Thomas Caine Tool Collection
Tool Word Derivations - Caulk		The Britannia Lathe in the Thomas Caine Tool Collection
Alanware - Australian Planemakers		Coffin Smoother marked "Morris & Co, Fitzroy"
A Dictionary of Australian Manufacturers - Part 1		A Collectors Helper
Plane talk - Beautiful Precision Tools		Recording a Collection
FB Cox Rule - interesting find		Tool Collecting in Western Australia
Siegley Planes		Unusual Spokeshave - 4 faces, unmarked
UK Visit of a Tool Buff	The Saw Part 1	Barker Bros, Melb
Saw Nibs and Tool Traditions		Plane Facts No 2
Woodstock Tools		Walker's Micrometer Markin Gauge
Windsor Beaders

TOOLCHEST # 36 May 1995		TOOLCHEST # 35 February 1995
Article		Article
Australian Tools - Carter Planes		The Broadaxe - Relic of a Vanishing Art
Replicas, Reproductions and Restorations		Pit Sawing
Folding Rules Part 1	Japanese Tools
Thomas Caine Tool Collection	What is a Hand Tool
Plane Facts No 1	A Screwed-up Tale - humour

TOOLCHEST # 34 November 1994		TOOLCHEST # 33 August 1994
Article		Article
The Mortise Axe	Collecting Means Protecting	Trojan P/L: 1911 - 1971
The Nature ans Identification of Timber		Electro Boracic Steel
One Man's Chest	The Tool Trail Part 1	Knobs on Pincers
The Tool Trail Part 2	The Tool Trail Part 3	David Kimberley Plough & Sash Fillester Planes
The Tool Trail Part 4	The Mary Rose	Collecting Clocks
Victorian Artistry and Social History		Timbers we use - Mahogany
The United Patriots Rational Benefit Society

TOOLCHEST # 32 May 1994		TOOLCHEST # 31 February 1994
Article		Article
Street Chairmender	Melbourne Chair Company	Nail making in Early NSW
Scottish Planes: Antiquity, Art, Accuracy		Windows Through the Ages
Recent Meanderings	King Island Slasher	The Art of the Joyner
My Changing World	On Apprenticeship	Stanley: One Hundred years
Hammer Drills	HPL Sydney	T & M Woolley Sydney - Australian Planemaker
Gauges: Marking, Cutting, Slitting		The Skill of Sharpening
Venice Turpentine		On Venice Turpentine

TOOLCHEST # 30 December 1993		TOOLCHEST # 30 December 1993 [Contd]
Collecting Old Hand Tools, talk by Frank Ham		Bill Strids Edward Preston Collection
Colonial Office Patents in Early NSW, Bob Crosbie		My Collection - Raymond Lord
Kiwi Magic - Spiers type plans made by George Fraser		Lie-Nielsen Planes, John Larkins
More on What is a Handtool?, Ken Turner - lots of small machinery illustrated		Tools in Private Museums- Sorrento Hardware Museum, Doug McIver
Timbers we use - Oak, Colin Goldberg		Dragon's Blood, Graham M Thompson
TOOLCHEST # 29 October1993		TOOLCHEST # 28 August 1993
Handles, Linseed Oil and Other Things, Doug McIver		Gregory Steel Products - talk by Jack Ellis
A Winning Attachment - The Humble Nail (History of Nailmaking), Nigel L		HMS Victory, talk by Ship Modellers Soc, Vic
TOOLCHEST # 27June 1993		Painting and Decorating, History
Old Tools - talk by Jim Stockton		Mont de Lancey, historic pioneer property in Nth Wandin
The Victorian Blacksmiths Assc.		Preston Horse Collar Measure, Bill Strid
Drawknife and Shaving Horse, by Alan West		Tuckpointing, Nigel Lampert
The story of Stone Masonry, Gabe Bognar		Carbonate of Soda for Rust Prevention, Nigel Lampert
Axes in Australia, by Paul Wilkins		TOOLCHEST # 26 April 1993
What is a hand Tool - Watson Cutter		Restoration or Conservation - talk by Alison Wain, Chief Conservator, Museum of Victoria
Molasses in Action - Gabe Bognar & Val Quanchi		Plastering - History of the use of Plaster in building, Ancient, England and Australia
What is a Kale Pot?, Ken Turner		The United Patriots Rational Benefit Society
TOOLCHEST # 25 February 1993		The Edwin Budding patent Lawn Mower, 1830 pat
Reg Eaton & the Brass Framed Brace		TOOLCHEST # 23 October 1992
Action at High Grange 13/3/1860		Violin Making - Nigel Lampert
What is a Hand Tool		The History, Development & Dating of English Moulding Planes - Richard Davidson
TOOLCHEST # 24 December 1992		Visit to USA - Frank Ham (Mercer Museum)
HTPAA Incorporated in September		Mediaeval Craftsmen, Tradesmen & Other Workers (Tradenames)- Pt 3. Watson
My New Collection - Preston - Bill Strid - NZ		Sharpening Stones - Alex Jenkin
Australian Tools Collection - Inauguration		TOOLCHEST # 22 August 1992
Carpenter's Framing Square, Improving the - Doug McIver		Tool Collecting in Queensland - Two Rare Finds - John R Brown - Cox Mitre & Norris A5
TOOLCHEST # 21 June1992		Shot Towers - Nigel Lampert
Mediaeval Craftsmen, Tradesmen & Other Workers (Tradenames)- Pt 2. Watson		Plain Furniture - Alan West
Brickmaking - The Hoffman Kiln - Nigel lampert		A Remnant of the Ind Revolution - "The Exhibited Machinery (International Exhibition )of 1862" - Ken Turner
The Australian "HYTEST" Racing Axe - Val Quanchi		Abrasives & Sharpening Stones - Val Quanchi
Australian Tools - Percy Nichols, Hobart		More on Saw Nibs and Molasses
The Sandusky Centre-Wheel Plough Plane - Laurie Lewis		TOOLCHEST # 20 April 1992
More on the Saw Nib		Formation of a Sydney Group - by Henry Black
More on Molasses		Sharpening Saws - meeting report from March 1992
TOOLCHEST # 19 February 1992		Second Annual Tool Sale
The Kirkham Connection - collection of trades tools in Geelong		Ken Roberts lecture on English Braces & other Tools
The Mediaeval Tool Chest - Watson Cutter		Mediaeval Craftsmen, Tradesmen & Other Workers (Tradenames)- Pt 1 - Watson Cutter
Roof Work in Lead - Nigel Lampert (Lead Tools illustrated)		The Art of Brickmaking: Some Historical Perspectives - Nigel Lampert
Roofing - Pitched & Flat Roofs, with illustrations of Lead roofs and tools		Interesting Find - Carpenter's New Guide (1793) Peter Nicholson
Australian Tools - Sidchrome, Timber gun, Durham, Plane Works Fitzroy		Australian Tools - Timber Splitting Gun
Restoration of an old Mortising Mathieson Machine., illustrations		Molasses in Tool Cleaning
TOOLCHEST # 18 December 1991		TOOLCHEST # 17 October 1991
Routing Planes - talk by Watson Cutter		Stanley - 50 years in Australia? - (since 1971 as Stanley)
Roofing - The Magic of Slate. Illustrations of Slating Tools, methods of laying, sizes, etc. - Nigel Lampert		The Craft of Thatching
Australian Tools - GMB Melb		Basic Tools - The Froe
Cane Collection - someone who knew him		The Empire Marketing Board
Millers Patent Plough & Fillister		Cane Coll'n - Caine's Registered Mark
TOOLCHEST # 16 August 1991		TOOLCHEST # 15 June1991
Log Numbering Hammer by C McIntosh, Kyogle, NSW		Woodcarving Tools by Colin Goldberg
Tiling Pt 3 - Roofing Tiles		Early Melbourne Hardware Trade, Story by Arthur Marsham
Spear & Jackson 1937 Catalogue, photos of S & J Plane		Tiling Pt 2 - Wall Tiles
Cleaning Tools by Terry Butcher		Caine Report
Aust tools GBM Melb, Robert Henry Pearce, Kingsgrove, NSW		Aust Tools - GBM Melb, Falcon / Pope Planes, Catalogue photos
Adept Chamfer Plane Pat Pend no 2994/70, and Pat 34580/71		TOOLCHEST # 14 April 1991
TOOLCHEST # 13 February 1991		Tiling Pt 1 - The Australian Mosaic Tileworks, Melb
Coach Building Pt 4 - Tramway Cars & Equipment		Caine Tool Collection - Probate Valuation
Australian Tools - William John James (Pat 15443/20)		TOOLCHEST # 12 December 1990
Joiners Tools available in Sydney in 1820		Coach Building Pt 3 - Coach Joinery - mentions woods used - Tulip Wood, Rosewood, Kingwood, Harewood
TOOLCHEST # 11 October 1990		Australian Tools - The Original Plumb - W N Plumb, Sydney
Australian Planes - Alanware, E. Kennedy, Melb		TOOLCHEST # 10 August 1990
Coach Building Pt 2 - Railway carriages & Wagon Bodies		Coach Building - Pt 1 - lots of illustrations of Coach building tools, hardware & plans
Australian Makers - Adze by T. Aitken & Sons, Sydney		Moulding Planes - Design & Construction
Australian Planemakers - brief history of Falcon / Pope, Turner, Stanley / Titan, Mac Tools & Proto Tools		Moulding Planes - Development of the Wedge
British Railway Compant Badges		Moulding Planes - Types & Classification
TOOLCHEST # 9 June 1990		Moulding Planes - Restoration - lots of illustrations
Wheelmaking Pt 2 - Machine Made Wheels - lots of handtools & machinery illustrated		Australian Planemakers - Aitken & Sons, T B Linley, Pope, Falcon, Turner & Stanley
Wheelmaking Pt 2 - Hand Made Wheels		Australian Planemakers - Carter Tools - history of Carter Tools and list of Planes made
Australian Planemakers - Adept		TOOLCHEST # 8 April 1990
TOOLCHEST # 7 February 1990		Ken Roberts lecture - "Tools for the Trades & Crafts"
Ken Roberts	Gulf Station - History	Wheelwright - The Craft of the Wheelwright
Stanley Toolbox of the World - incl some trademarks and rare Stanley Planes		Wheelwright - Timber of the Wheelwright
Caine Tool Collection - Catalogueing		Wheelmaking Pt 1 - incl lots of illustrations on wheelmaking
Caine Tool Collection - Tools at Polly Woodside		Australian Planemakers - List of Known makers as at April 1990
Caine Tool Collection - The Story of Thomas Caine		Historic tools on display in Bendigo at Sandhurst Trustees
TOOLCHEST # 5 October 1989		TOOLCHEST # 6 December 1989
The Adze		Dating Stanley Planes
Pioneer Skills of Australia, Alan West		Leonard Bailey - Plane Pioneer - incl lots of Bailey Plane illustrations
Sleeper Hewing - incl illustrations of sleeper cutting tools		Caine Tool Collection - the move from Ripponlea
Caine Tool collection - Contents of Tool Box -> 4 pages of handwritten list		Caine Tool Collection - Tool Box # 2 - List of Contents
TOOLCHEST # 4 August 1989		TOOLCHEST # 3 June 1989
Tale of an Old Smoothie, Tony Derrett		Violin making with Raynor Beilharz
Foundry Work - extensive article incl. Green Sand Moulding & Bench Moulding		International Wood Collectors Society, Jock Watson
Caine Tool Collection - TS Caine's Will		Stone Tools from 31,000 years ago
		Man & His Tools - A Force for Change, Watson Cutter
TOOLCHEST # 2 April 1989		TOOLCHEST # 1 February 1989
Caine Tool Collection		Disston # 10 Imperial Saw tool - instructions for use
Coopering - Art of the Old World		Disston - Setting & Swaging Hammers
Coopering - The Noble Art of Cooperage - Lots of Cooper's tools illustrated		Disston - How to set & File Cross Cut Saws	Disston - Cross Cut Saw Files
Spotswood Pumping Station Museum		Bookcase Plane

Back copies of the Tool Chest are available from the Secretary HTPAA

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