old tools box restoration #1: The tool box

Nice colection
you got there
Drool I wish it
was mine
I´m looking
forward to
see them
in action

Dennis

This is quite a great collection of hand tool, most seem pretty old, I really like the one on the last couple of pictures, is there any marking that can identify the maker of that plane?

-- The things I make may be for others, but how I make them is for me.

Nice collection. What are the markings on the metal plow plane? Some of them are quite collectable.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Thanks guys

WayaneC: here’s the info, Metallic Plane Co./Auburn, N. Y. : Cast Iron Filletster Metallic Plane. there is one on www.mjdtools.com that has been sold for $3,650.00….......it’s a keeper for me.

Alonso: There is a name on the end: E.Cantin, this type of plane was made by 2 brothers, Édouard et Léon Cantin, in Quebec, Canada between 1850-1890. There is a web page of an old tools collector who put a lot of info on old wooden plane but it’s in french so if you want i can give you the link but….....it’s in french.

It looked like a good one Bern. Wanted to be sure you knew it might have some signifcant value.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Sure give us the link, I can translate that pretty quickly.

-- The things I make may be for others, but how I make them is for me.

Drool is right. What a great collection. The box alone is quite an item.

-- ~Just A Guy With A Hammer~

OK here is the link to a small web site but full of info about tool maker in Quebec. Hope you can understand it…...
http://sites.rapidus.net/jacherou/index.html

super collection I would do nothing to it except remove the dust and some light oil on the planes,

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Definately leave it alone don’t mess with it. you can restore less valuable tools to work with. Give them a place of honor, Box & all.

Can you say Mine!! all Mine!!! :)

-- Pat - Worker of Wood, Collector of Tools, Father of one