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This is one of our recently sold items: Old Floorboard Saw in pretty healthy condition and pretty sharp, but as ever i’m sure it could be improved by a seasoned woodworker. Always handy to have in your kit and usable ones are getting harder to find.

This is one of our recently sold items: Superb Antique leather workers convex edge tool for cutting leather and usable today as the day it was made. Peter Kirk operated in the mid 19th c operating in Sheffield. The cutter has a beech wood handle and typical of the period split nut brass studs, the…

This is one of our recently sold items: Nicely shaped vintage plumb bob in very good condition together with a bobbin reel, genuine old carpenters tool.

This is one of our recently sold items: Nice Vintage Rosewood and brass Tri square with 45 degree mitre option, the blade measures 7 1/2″ internally and is around 9″ overall in length.

This is one of our recently sold items: Vintage English Drabble & Sanderson 12″ Brass Back Saw in good overall condition, Straight and reasonably sharp although a seasoned woodworker could improve it.

This is one of our recently sold items: Vintage Chesterman No. 369 Engineers 14″ Vernier Height Gauge to use on surface plate for accuracy. In good used condition.

This is one of our recently sold items: This vintage Stanley No: 70 box scraper in good used condition. These were produced from c1877 and were used to remove stencil markings from wooden boxes and crates but are also known to be used for floorboards and are often referred to as floorboard planes.

This is one of our recently sold items: Negretti & Zambra London Barometer box with original paperwork.

This is one of our recently sold items: Record SS 05 in good condition refurbished ready to use.

This is one of our recently sold items: Vintage 8″ Drawknife (blade length) sharpened and honed ready to use. Note the handles are odd but there is loads of life in this old tool yet and its a good users tool.

This is one of our recently sold items: Good Early Stanley Butt Gauge from the USA Patent date 2-28-11.

This is one of our recently sold items: Exceptional and Rare to find this in the UK but its a D R Barton Drawknife with a clever shaped blade that allows the tool to be used either way up effectively making this two tools in one. There is loads of life in it yet. The…