I am not sure if many main stream woodworkers are aware of a tool and finishing supplies retailer that goes by the name "Tools For Working Wood". I have shopped there on many occasions, I purchased my lovely and robust Ray Iles mortising chisels, some finishing supplies, marking gauge and a few other items that they specialize in including environmentally and baby safe finishes.

 

An area of their retail website is dedicated to blogs, there are various blogs for different departments, one blog I especially like and it's updated very frequently, weekly if not more, is a blog called Joel's Blog.

Joel loves writing about woodworking history, the people, the tools, the furniture and more.

 

Here is one particular entry that I found interesting, "Things to Sit On in Randle Holme's The Academy of Armory, York, England, 1688".

Since I love chairs, and building them, this interested me on a personal level.

Things to Sit On in Randle Holme's The Academy of Armory, York, England, 1688

TOOLSFORWORKINGWOOD.COM

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I've been working on a blog about chairs. As part of my research, I took a closer look at Randle Holmes's 1688 opus, The book is considered the best

 

When you go to Joel's Blog the page kind of looks unorganized, these folks are woodworkers, not website developers, and it appears they created and maintain their own retail website, and I really like the simplicity of the site myself, easy to navigate and easy to find the items you want.

They started out as a Museum of woodworking tools, and developed into a retailer. 

Their brick and mortar location is at:

112 26th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

 

They also have classes and special guest stars drop by to host the classes such as Roy Underhill.

 

Here is their original website when they were a tiny museum and just kicking off their website in the early 2000's.

Museum of Woodworking Tools - Lobby

ANTIQUETOOLS.COM

 

I hope you have fun with it and don't forget to poke around their retail offerings.

Thanks!

 

Thanks John. Very nice site and good reading. 
Paul

You are welcome gents, glad you like it! I just purchased the other day Quercas Magazine from these folks, a magazine dedicated to Hand Tool woodworking in the same vein Mortise and Tenon Magazine is. I ordered the first three issues to get an idea of the magazine, if I like it I'll subscribe.

Quercus Magazine

TOOLSFORWORKINGWOOD.COM

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Quercus Magazine is an exciting magazine devoted to hand woodworking edited by Nick Gibbs, a veteran of several British woodworking magazines...