From dusty hand planes to leatherworking tools, these old-school pieces may be surprisingly valuable. Here are ...

You know that dusty toolbox in the corner of the garage? The one that hasn’t been opened since the Reagan administration? It ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. A wooden box in Harold Young’s workshop holds the genesis of his collection ...

Browsing an estate sale, yard sale or even an antique shop, shoppers might be looking for any number of items that pique their interest. But items such as hand tools are often overlooked. With grease ...

CASTLE ROCK — Most woodworkers use tools to create their works of art, but for Mel Miller the tools themselves are the main attraction. Miller has been collecting antique tools for nearly 25 years, ...

Francis Nicholson is America’s first documented planemaker. It’s believed he was the first planemaker to imprint his name on the tools he created. Nicholson lived from 1683-1753 and this wooden plane ...

Brothers George and Henry Landis collected all sorts of tools that 18th- and 19th-century Pennsylvania German farmers used in the past. Their collection is the foundation of Landis Valley Village & ...

HUMBOLDT, Iowa (AP) -- For someone who loves tools, old woodworking planes, wrenches and drill bits aren't leftovers from grandpas workbench to be gotten rid of as soon as possible. Instead, they're ...

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A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the ...

Andrew Alexander was caught in traffic, so he did what anyone else would do: he took a shortcut. But when he saw an old Studebaker truck decaying in the yard of a run-down house, he did what few ...