Each year the MWTCA sends out a wonderful reprint of an old catalog to all its members that make the annual dues worth it in itself, just this action. This year we all got The Simonds Saws and Knives catalog, from 1919. It's a great reprint, brand new, neat cover, good stock and a joy to read. Below is in image of the cover of this years catalog and a couple pages of what the catalog has.

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And you also get the quarterly publication, The Gristmill, an wonderful magazine.

And there are tool meets and flee markets all across the country that MWTCA sets up and has meetings and get togethers, it's a great organization.

I Guess they ran out of one or the other John. 

I got the V&B Tools Catalog reprint.

 

that's a nice one too! Nice looking, what does it have inside?

Is that Vaughn and Bushnell? I have one of their hand planes on my wish list, more of a collector piece than anything.

Is that Vaughn and Bushnell? I have one of their hand planes on my wish list, more of a collector piece than anything.

Yes Fred it is a Vaughn and Bushnell Catalog reprint of a 1927 catalog.

 

that's a nice one too! Nice looking, what does it have inside?

 

 

There are some really nice tools in it. 

Wow! I really like yours John! Nice book!

I like it also John. I was just surprised when you posted the one you got and I had gotten a different one.

If you look at the last Gristmill, back cover or maybe front inside cover, they list their expenses throughout the year, these books are expensive for them to send out to their 3300 paid members! I don't have the Gristmill in front of me, but I think they cost upwards of 30,000 bucks to send out.