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My Knick Knacks - Wiktor Kuc |
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I often find having a short point to make that
doesn't land itself into any long elaboration.
After all, except doing a lot of research and
writing historical pieces on this site I also need
a space where I can share my own
learning about old hand tools, their history and how
they were made and used.
So, this is my solution. Once
in a while I will post short bits and pieces here,
in My Knick Knacks.
If you have a comment send me a
note:
info@wkFineTools.com |
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Goodell Brothers - the
Bedrock of Goodell-Pratt Co.
by Wiktor Kuc
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Paper
File Handles
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The File Hewer's
Lamentation from The Songs of Joseph Mather, (Sheffield, 1862).
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1826 -
Of Polishing Wood-Work
by Peter
Nicholson
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The Criterion Saw-Set,
Carpentry and Building, Vol.
6, 1884 (New York: David Williams, 1884).
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Peter the Great - "Immortal Peter, First of Monarchs",
The Journal of
Society of Arts, November 15, 1867
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Increment-cut Files
by
Machinery's Handbook, 1914
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Saws, Sawyers, Saw Filers and Saw Setters -
New York City Dir for 1825
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Sharpening Irregular Tools
by Scientific American,
August 8, 1856
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An
English Operative in an American Factory,
Scientific American,
1865
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Early Files
Cutting
from "Steel File" by Eric N.
Simons
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Making a Knife - from W. & S. Butcher - Historical
Review by Geoffrey Tweedale
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Extracts from Chordal’s
Letters
by James
W. See, 1883
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Frat of a Sheffield File Maker,
The Journal of Society of
Arts, November 15, 1867
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The Friends of
the Carpenter, The
Hardware Book by Charles Austin Bates, 1899
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Anchoring
Screwdriver Shanks, Popular Mechanics, November 1929
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Save your
Old Files and Rasps, Scientific American,
1864
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Saw Dentist.
Scientific American,
1864
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Millers Falls Hand Drill No. 5 Main Gear
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Here's a Tongue-Twister
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