What's New

Next Meeting

Tuesday, 11 June 2013
National Trust Centre, Annie Wyatt Room
Observatory Hill, The Rocks
Sydney, Australia
Open at 7:00pm, commencing at 7:30pm

Of Interest

Charlie's Challenge - A Saw Sharpening Experience from JohnsPage
Craftsmen Tool Kit from JohnsPage
Relics from the rafters from JohnsPage
Turning a knob for a bench plane from JohnsPage
A BOOK - Its impact and role in Education from JohnsPage
To think I almost sold it! from JohnsPage
Stanley Planes and Screw Threads from John Bates
Berto’s Research from Berto Pandolfo
You never know what's in a neighbourhood shed from JohnsPage
Citric Acid Rust Removal from Peter Evans

New Links

Mouldings in Practice A new book on using moulding planes.
Steam Powered Whims A snippet of Western Australian Timber Steam Tractors
Pictures of the Hendey Factory from 1943 A look inside the factory during the war.
Disstonian Institute Online Reference of Disston Saws
McJing Tools On-line Suppliers of Engineering and Woodworking tools and parts
In the Woodshop An excellent showcase of bench making and shop made tools
Making a plane handle for a Shooting board From the Cornish workshop
Video of a 1932 Swedish Workshop
Power tools made in Australia A good website of old power tools
Cornish Workshop An interesting musing from the workbench of a woman living in Cornwall England
Jim Davey's Plane Sharpening Service and Instruction To have the sharpest tool in the shed!

Coming Events

Blacksmithing
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Making Wood Joints and Using Glue
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Friends of Linnwood
Sunday, 14 July 2013
For further information visit the web site at www.holroyd.nsw.gov.au/linnwood/events
Timber and Working With Wood Show
Friday, 26 July 2013 to Sunday, 28 July 2013
For further information visit the web site at www.iexh.com.au/index.php/sydney-details.html#
Saw Sharpening with John Daniel
Sunday, 4 August 2013
Sharpening Edge Tools with Jim Davey
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Friends of Linnwood (September)
Sunday, 8 September 2013
For further information visit the web site at www.holroyd.nsw.gov.au/linnwood/events
Plane Basics and Workshop Practice with Bob Crosbie
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Woodworking Planes - Special Purpose with Bob Crosbie
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Advanced Hand Plane Skills with Jim Davey
Sunday, 3 November 2013
Friends of Linnwood (November)
Sunday, 10 November 2013
For further information visit the web site at www.holroyd.nsw.gov.au/linnwood/events
The Traditional Tools Group 2014 Tool Sale
Sunday, 23 February 2014
For further information visit the web site at www.tttg.org.au/Content/TTTG Tool Sale 2014.pdf

For more information see our Coming Events page, and to make enquires or sign up, please contact the Event Co-ordinator.

Want to write for TTTG?

The editor is looking for articles of historic interest, interesting discoveries, techniques, or stories of personal experience. Ideally, articles will have a theme from the trades, but any stories from mining, coffin makers, cobblers, renovations, archaeology digs, etc would be much appreciated.

For any article submitted, send them to the Editor or Webmaster in plain text form (in notepad for instance) and send any photos or pictures in jpeg format.

Although other formats, such as Microsoft Word, can be submitted, the editor and webmaster convert them to text format and re-format them for the newsletter or the web page. For photographs, other formats, such as png, gif, tif, pdf, etc. can be sent, however, the editor and webmaster convert them to jpeg format and sometimes the picture can become distorted. So it would be appreciated any submissions are in plain text format and photographs are in jpeg.

Need to dispose, sell or donate tools that you don't know what to do with? TTTG can help!

If you want them sold, TTTG will take a 20% commission on the price realised. For disposal or donations, TTTG will accept them, however under the condition that TTTG reserves the right to sell the tools for the club's benefit or tools that can be included in the TTTG tool collection.

Tools selected for the collection are generally historically relevant, may have documentation (such as notes from the original owner), are in a condition that complements the rest of the collection, or has parts that can be used to repair other tools in the collection.

Tools in the collection are usually displayed at events attended by TTTG where the theme of the event complements the collection on display.

VALUATIONS - TTTG will not offer tool valuations under any circumstances.

Due to the high demand of the public using this service, TTTG will only offer the service to members of TTTG.
If you wish to become a member of TTTG see our Membership page for information on how to join online.

Membership Renewals and Joining Online

TTTG accepts new memberships and renewal payments online using PayPal

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See our Membership Page for more information.