Scott Grandstaff wrote:
>Got to be kidding me
>  So, he sends me a link to Jas Swan.
>  He wants to talk about some obscure bit, and sends me a link to a
>whole Swan catalog.
>As if................... we are all going to ignore the chisels and
>gouges for page after page after page.

[snips, alas]

>  I guess next time you will send us a link to every photograph ever
>taken of Marilyn Monroe,
>and want to talk about toenail polish on page 1132.

>  Sorry Partner, that ain't what we're lookin at. heeheheheheheheh>
      

Scott, Scott, Scott...

I'll see your James Swan and raise you two L. & I.J. White. 1909 and 1913. Right
there on the Rose site in the Wayback Machine. Right there in Jonathan's new
hosting of them, under "Miscellaneous Catalogues". With PSW and Sargent and
Goodell-Pratt and North Bros. and Greenlee (not transferred yet, I think)....
Marples and Melhulish. Stanley, Millers Falls, HSB. Disston and Atkins. Starrett
back to 1895... Various axe companies, though I don't know about them yet...
Seems like everything but Witherby and Charles Buck....

The world is full of Kay Francis and Garbo and Rita Hayworth and you're talking
about Monroe. I suppose someone has to like blondes.

Tom Conroy

with special thanks to Jonathan who's not just maintaining the collection, but
adding to it. In case you missed the link:

http://www.alaskawoodworker.com/old-tool-catalogs-and-
manuals/">http://www.alaskawoodworker.com/old-tool-catalogs-and-manuals/

(Mind you, I'm not crazy: of course Swan is up there at the top with White,
Charles Buck, and prewar Witherby. But if you're going to rake me over the coals
for not slavering over Swan's chisels, well, how did you miss the L.&I.J.
White?)