Where to buy traditional tools?

[Melonfish]

Chaps,

i'm looking for a place to buy item's like Froes, carving axes, billhooks, hand mauls and other assorted outdoor style tools.
the obvious tool places don't appear to stock these and tbh they're amazingly useful items i just don't know where to start?

thanks
pete

 

[DavidJT]

Seen this place recommended quite often..

http://www.woodsmithstore.co.uk/shop/

Never used them myself though

 

[wanderingblade]

Car boot season is upon us soon - with many goodies to be had!

 

[forest of dreams]

Hi Pete,

I have used the woodsmith store to purchase billhooks and draw knives, i have alos used axminster for some things both are good, though if your looking for hand forged tools use the the woodsmith store or try http://www.mallinson.co.uk/tools.html i have not used them but they are well respected in the greenwooking industry.

Hope that helps

Jules

 

[HillBill]

I have used the woodsmith store a few times, i would highly reccommend them

 

[tombear]

eBay was really good for scotch eye augers at one point, well priced Sheffield made stuff done for the army in the 1950s.

ATB

Tom

 

[Melonfish]

Crackin stuff thanks guys! i'm having a browse as we speak

 

[jojo]

Westover Woodlands sell green woodwork tools.

 

[mr dazzler]

Tony Murland is a tool dealer based in Needham Market, Suffolk. Mostly he sells top end joinery tools for colectors, he does a few special auctions each year. But he often has unusual old tools from the various green wodwork trades too, I got a very good old froe and a billhook. He sometimes has stail engines in, also drawknives, inshaves, scorps, scotch eye augers, axes, spoon bits, reamers, wide selection of gouges etc etc. You can easily make a maul or 2 from ash and elm or beech, splitting wedges from elm.....