The Traditional Tools Group Inc.

An old brochure for a Fraser saw sharpener

Some photos from the 'Planes You Need' workshop.

Photos from the TTTG members' meeting on 9 April 2019.

Photos from the Timber Preparation Workshop at the Old Eastwood Town Hall .

The Lewin Combination Plane, "The Lewin Six Fifteen", was promoted in the Woodworker magazine from August 1949 to December1956.  Two versions of the 615 were manufactured.   The first version had 18 cutters, the second version had 19 cutters.  

The care of tools must lie ultimately in the hands of the owner regarding appearance, use, conservation, restoration, the time and materials available and the condition of them at the beginning.

Before going into the actual manufacture of a handsaw, it is as well to realise the essential qualities of a good saw.

Planes when out of use for more than a few hours should have the wedges released, as the continued tension is injurious to the plane.

Of all traditional woodworking tools the toothing plane is one of the least understood. In the nineteenth century and earlier it was one of the indispensable tools of the cabinet maker and of the piano case maker. It had a range of uses and offered an efficiency which could not be matched by alternative methods.

During the latter part of the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie and for some ten years afterwards there was a gang of convicts cutting timber in the forest around today's suburb of Pennant Hills. The establishing of a gang hereabouts had a rather interesting background in that it was in the main influenced by events taking place overseas.