The collection below is of a dedicated tool collector
who loves his tools. Gene “The Tool Man” has been collecting hammers, planes, saws,
any
other old tool you can think of for many years. He is a proud member of several of the fine tool clubs. Gene has dedicated
most of
his life to his tools
and loves to share information on each of them. Gene has the education
of an Industrial Engineer, Tool maker, and also owned his own machine shop. Let me tell you he loved tools so
much he shared his knowledge as a teacher for a major University machine shop school. He proudly displays
all his tools in what I call Gene's ToolMuseum. Every item is museum quality and every tool deserves its own
page and description in a book. Gene collected most tools by attending antique tool shows and flea markets. One of his pride and joys is a Stanley number 1 which he proudly
displays.
Gene and his pride and joy
This collection is what some of us tool buffs only dream about. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I took many. The pictures still can't describe the beauty
and craftsmanship of each one of these old tools. Gene has graciously shared his once in a lifetime collection
for others to view on this website. Look closely at each picture; I don’t believe you will ever see such an exquisite collection in one place. Please note none of these tools are for sale and are for viewing only. Again there are many
pictures and if you have a slow internet connection I believe it will be well worth your wait
for you to view these tools. I would like to thank you Gene for sharing
your tools with all of us.
We have several links to assorted antique tool catalogs which you can download for free, all
are in adobe pdf form so you will need the latest version of the adobe reader which you can download free at www.adobe.com
This website does cost money to run At BizLand, the term "bandwidth" refers to
the total amount of information that has been served to visitors from your site during a given month. BizLand allows a certain
amount of bandwidth usage each month, based on my hosting membership.
Every file on my Web site has a size (e.g., 24K); and every time a file is downloaded by a visitor, my bandwidth
usage goes up by that amount. , the information here is free for all but if you could make a small donation it would
help us out a lot to maintain the costs and to keep the old catalogs coming!
