Thread: L & IJ White Co. Edge Tools

Here are a few more extracts from the catalogue:

1909 White Edge Tools Buffalo Adze 1.jpg1909 White Edge Tools Buffalo Adze 2.jpg1909 White Edge Tools Buffalo Coopers' Jointer.png1909 White Edge Tools Buffalo Coopers' leveler.png1909 White Edge Tools Buffalo Draw Knives.jpg

View the full catalogue here.

I enlarged these pix as they are unreadable in "medium" size.

Regards
Paul

The turners hustler chisel was a new one for me. Looks like a square channel gouge in the picture. Anyone know anything about them.
Regards
John

A drawknife/spokeshave/shave similar to the picture of the wagonmakers drawknife was featured in IanW's thread HERE

Wagonmakers drawknife.PNG

Originally Posted by orraloon

The turners hustler chisel was a new one for me. Looks like a square channel gouge in the picture. Anyone know anything about them.
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John

Hello John, it's the older style Spindle gouge, now known as Long and Strong's. I use a carbon steel version on softwoods. Of course, the apprentice would have spent a few hours grinding the edge . . .

A very quick count and rough only, for those of you who might have scurrilously thought I was exaggerating, is as follows:

50 models of chisel
20 Adzes
Plane irons (didn't count those)
5 Axes
18 Draw knives and shaves
17 butchers' axes.

Regards
Paul

That's a great resource Paul.
Thanks for posting this.
Jim Bassett wrote a book on American chisels and of course L & I J White are included.
He spent a long time hardness testing the various brands and ranked them according to their hardness and ease of sharpening.
Whites were in the lower category of hardness and were among the easiest to sharpen.
That's not to demean them, they tested at around 58 on the Rockwell scale and are more sought after than some other well known US brands - less so than some others.
In short, they are good chisels
Tom

I love the "Internet Archive". There's heaps of great old newspapers, documents and books, including many tool catalogues. And that's just book section. There's old images, software, audio and video files as well.

Tom

Thanks for that additional information. The Tool Catalogue library is indeed a fabulous resource, well, for me it is, but a word of caution when executing searches. The search mode is really pernickety: As in pedantically pernickety! For example, I was researching Simonds saws when I spotted the Edge Tool catalogue and I don't know why that was there. It just was. Sitting as the last entry.

The example I will give is that if you put "Simonds Saw" in the search it will bring up two of the available catalogues. If you enter "Simonds Saws" it will find four catalogues. Just bear this in mind if you are researching and don't give up straight away if it does not return a result.

Regards
Paul

Paul, I haven't researched the term, but "slick" seems to be a North American name for those whopper long-handled paring chisels (much-used by heavy-timber framers). I'd not heard the term before I lived in Canada. However, it may well be a very old name that was taken to the 'new world' & persisted there but fell out of common usage in Britain. There are quite a few words like that....

Cheers,