We’re ultimate out our reprint of the “Stanley Tools Catalogue No. 34,” and are promoting last copies for $10 every, merely to disencumber area at the warehouse cabinets. Each and every acquire comes with a loose PDF replica – as soon as the 450 (or so) print copies are offered out, we’ll proceed to supply a loose PDF of the 1914 catalogue right here at the weblog.

This catalog presentations just about each and every software wanted in a hand-tool store 100 years in the past, from the chisels to the butt gauges to each and every kind of aircraft within the corporate’s line. The textual content explains what every one is used for and the way it purposes in a different way from different equivalent gear.

The catalog additionally has implausible exploded perspectives of most of the advanced gear, corresponding to Stanley’s miter bins, the multi-planes and handplanes. It’s an excellent useful resource to have available at a device meet or vintage marketplace – now not simplest to spot antique gear, however to peer if all of the portions are intact.

If you’re simply entering hand gear, we predict you’ll to find this catalog a pleasure to learn, hang and be informed from. The tips in it’s factual and easy – now not the puffery you get from many trendy catalogs. And should you gather or admire antique hand gear, we predict you’ll love this catalog, which reproduces the antique drawings with outstanding readability.

As soon as those are long past, we don’t seem to be reprinting. So get it now or endlessly hang your (Harvey) peace.

– Fitz