Tag
hand tools
Tools
The Bone Folder and the Paper Conservator's Hand
A small tongue of polished bone, shaped like a flattened spoon, is the most-used object on the bench of a paper conservator working in a Glasgow studio.
Tools
The Cabinet Scraper's Quiet Edge: A Tool Older Than Sandpaper
Before sandpaper was a household item, a small rectangle of hardened steel did most of the smoothing in a furniture workshop. It still does, in the workshops that know how to sharpen one.
Collections
A One-Room Museum of American Carpenter's Tools
In a converted icehouse outside Brattleboro, Vermont, Wendell Strauss has built what may be the most complete private collection of American carpenter's hand planes between 1840 and 1925.