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The catalogs below were saved in Adobe Reader Form onto  quality CD-RS.  All pages were scanned high resolution and it is just like a book when you read them. You can print any page of the catalog and if you have the full Adobe Acrobat software you can crop, save the catalog in picuture form and so much more.  Works on Windows and MAC.  You will need the Adobe Reader to view the Cd's. You can obtain a free copy of this software by visiting the Adobe site icon below. 

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KEEN KUTTER 1939 Catalog 4 CD SET

Here are 4 Keen Kutter Catalog CDS that I have carefully positioned, cropped and saved from a 1939 Keen Kutter catalog to Adobe form. You can view each page as if it were a real book. All of  the pictures that you see in the link below 

 Keen Kutter Tool Descriptions

were obtained from this catalog.

 The total pages that you can view are 519 pages.

Below are two Adobe file samples of this Keen Kutter catalog.  If you have trouble downloading right click your mouse and choose open in new window.

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CD 1- Woodworking pages 825-950  has axes, drills, chisels, crow bars, drill bits, draw knives, scrapers, glass cutters, hammers, hatchets, leather tools, lumbering tools, mauls, picks, planes, pliers, plumbs and levels, punches, rules, saws, screw drivers, squares and trowels. The prices of the tools are on all pages for the year of 1939. This is a great resource for Keen Kutter collectors or if you just like old tools.

CD 2- Electric pages 955-1078 has blacksmiths tongs, blow torches, Bostrom levels, clamps, electric tools, files and rasps, flint paper, grinding wheels, handles, high speed drill bits, lathe tools, post drills, sharpening stones, Simmons Leader tools, soldering irons, Starretts tools, stocks and dies, tinners snips, tool grinders, vises, welding outfits, workbenches and tool boxes, wrenches and more.

CD-3 Farm tool pages 1261-1494 has automotive tires and accessories, Brooders, Cattle equipment, chains, churns, corn shellers, cow and school bells, hay carriers, harness parts, hog equipment, horse equipment with saddles and other items, hoists, jacks, leather working items, oilers, ropes, sheep sheering, snatch blocks, stock tanks, wagon equipment, water systems and more.

 

 

CD-4 Garden  pages 1101-1260 has agricultural tool handles, corn hooks and knives, cultivators, edgers, forks pitch, garden tools, grass hooks, hedge shears, hoes, lawn mowers, plows, post hole diggers, pruner, scythe, shears, shovels and spades, sidewalk cleaners, weed cutters and other items. 

Some of the manufacturers you will see are Champion, Defiance, Disston, Greenlee, Kelly, Key Stone, Klicker, Lufkin, Maye s, Sand s, Stanley, Starrett, Red Devil, Yankee many more not listed and the line of Keen Kutter and Simmons tools for 1939. I have bookmarked most of the common tools for you to quickly view.

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You must have Adobe on your computer to view the files which you can obtain free at the Adobe site, and it works great with windows programs and MAC. If you have any questions at all please contact me and I will try to answer them, as soon as I can. Buyer to pay $19.99 plus $3.85 priority shipping anywhere in the United States, International shipping will vary.

 

Belknap Blue Grass Axe catalogs on CD

To see a sample page of the Belknap catalog please click below to download a page in Adobe format. 

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This cd-rom is loaded with information and is Great for researchers or just if you are interested in old tools. Makes identification of tools easy! These are selected scans of different categories of tools from the original 1940, 1950 and 1961 Belknap Blue Grass Hardware catalogs on one Cd-rom. Ten year spans between each see how the prices have changed! Great pictures of the tools on each page with a wide range of manufactures. The Catalogs have great descriptions and dimensions of the tools and also the prices you paid for them in that year (usually by the dozen). The pages were scanned high resolution into adobe .PDF form so you will need the adobe acrobat reader which you can receive at the ADOBE website for free. Works on all windows programs that I know of and works great with windows XP. Scans below are jpeg image and are not as good as the adobe pdf cd. For a sample page of the axes cplease click on the file on the left hand side of this page. There is also a Stanley 1898 catalog in its full form on the

 Stanley Tool descriptions page. Will take a little while to download.

Belknap Blue Grass Axes and Hatchets 72 pages from the three original catalogs you see in the adds on this page . This cd is packed with axes and hatchets. Some Manufactures you will see are: Blue Grass, Crafoite, Crusader, Cyclone, Estwing, Griffith (Germantown), Kelly Falls City, Kelly Perfect and Flint edge, Keystone, Leader, Pathfinder, Pine Knot, Plumb , Steel king, Totem, True Temper and Underhill There are many Styles in the single bit shown which are: Baltimore Jersey Baltimore Kentucky, Dayton, Hoosier, Michigan, Southern Kentucky Style. Double bit styles are Michigan, Reversible, and Western Pattern. There is more: adzes (carpenter, ship and railroad), barrel hatchet, Boys axes, boy scout (plumb, Bridgeport, plumb voyager), belt axes, Broad axes, broad or bench hatchets Camp hatchets, claw hatchets, Display rack, Firemans axes, flooring, half hatchets, household hatchets, lathing hatchets, miners axes, miniature axes, packers hatchet, produce dealers hatchet, shingling hatchets, shinglers hatchet gauges, tobacco hatchets, Tommy axes and wallboard hatchets.

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Shapleigh Diamond Edge 1929 Catalog 5 CD SET

Here are 5 Shapleigh Catalog CDS that I have carefully positioned, cropped and saved from a 1929 Shapleigh Diamond Edge catalog to Adobe form. You can view and print each page as if it were a real book. The pages are from 1-482 the complete tool section. This is a great resource for Shapleigh or Keen Kutter collectors or if you just like old tools. All pictures and descriptions of tools of Shapleigh on this site was obtained from the catalog cds so you can see the pictures on the links below

Shapleigh Planes 

Shapleigh's Diamond Edge

 

Below are two Adobe file samples of this Shapleigh CD catalog.  If you have trouble downloading right click your mouse and choose open in new window.

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CD 1- Woodworking pages 1-111 has adzes, axes, chisels, draw knives, drills, drill bits, hammers, planes from bridge, Shapleigh, Stanley, plane parts, screw drivers and spoke shaves and a lot I have not listed.  The prices of the tools are on all pages for the year of 1929.

CD 2- pages 112-211 cd has box hooks, carpenters aprons, cement tools, clamps, drafting sets, floor scrapers, lathes, marking gauges, miter boxes, picture frame vises, pliers, plumb bobs, levels, rules, power saws, saw tools, Starrett tools, squares, tool cabinet sets, workbenches and more.

CD-3 Farm tool pages 212-318 cd has anvils, blacksmiths blowers and nippers, cant hooks, chains, cold chisels, crow bars, Farriers knives, files, handles, hoists, jacks, lathes, miners supplies, picks, pipe cutters, pipe threading tools, portable forges, punches, rasps, sandpaper, screw plates, sharpening stones, tackle blocks, taps, tool grinders, vises, wire stretchers, wrenches and more.

 

 

CD-4 Garden pages 319-431 blow torches, corn planters, cultivators, pitch forks, garden tools like shovels rakes and misc., grading plows, hay carriers, lawn mowers, plow trees, pulleys, tinners tools, soldering coppers, wagon parts, wheelbarrows  and other items.

 

CD-5 Livestock pages 432-482 bells, bottle equipment, cider mills, corn huskers, feeding troughs, grass hooks, incubators, insecticides, kegs, livestock equipment, pruning shears, pumps, pump sprayers, scythes, shears, shearing machines, well equipment and more.

 

 There was some fading of some of the ads in the original catalog that bled to some pages, but all information is readable with some pages having a slight pink color.

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You must have Adobe on your computer to view the files which you can obtain free at the Adobe site, and it works great with windows programs and MAC. If you have any questions at all please contact me and I will try to answer them, as soon as I can. Buyer to pay $24.99 plus $3.85 priority shipping anywhere in the United States, International shipping will vary.