Beginners Guide to collecting tools

Without tools the human race wouldn’t have evolved and we would be no different to other animals on this Planet. That’s the significant importance that makes collecting tools so fascinating. Tools could be deemed the father of all things, without them everything that is man made would be nothing more than an idea. Once there were tools it’s only then it created the skilled workers who mastered them and the tradesman was born! There has been an evolution of tools as with man himself, we use tools to make better tools, and tools to increase productivity. Somewhere in between there was an era where it was important where tools should be crafted to a standards to that could be created from using them.

Tools can be collected for a number of reasons and each person generally will have a connection or interest with a certain theme. There are the obvious groups such as carpentry, leather work and mechanical but there are others such as dentistry, architectural, surgical and scientific instruments and many others besides. All subjects have history and I think where there is a practical skill it connects that person to the history of the subject. It’s interesting to know how what you know evolved to its current form, its like retracing another form of history to the person you are.