Welcome to Hackney Tools, based in the east end of London in the UK.
If you would like to SELL some old woodworking tools, email me on mail@hackneytools.com, or you can call me on 07946 497504. I buy good quality woodworking hand tools and I’m particularly interested in hand tools from Stanley, Lie Nielsen, Mathieson, Norris, Preston, Spiers, Addis, Record, Millers Falls, Holland, Slater, G.Miller and Holzapfell.
I’m afraid I cannot buy large machines, due to lack of storage space. 🙁
About the blog
This blog is primarily about quality woodworking tools from the 19th-20th centuries. I also try to include information about the woodwork and carpentry trades from those times. I'm very proud to be living in the east end of London, an area well-known for it's furniture trade and it's quality workmanship throughout the 19thc. I'm always keen to meet people who were part of this excellent trade.
Perhaps one of your family members was connected with the furniture and cabinet-making trades of London. Why not get in touch using the contact link. - Gary Cook
Feb 25
I will buy your woodworking tools
May 14
Distinctive Norris A7
As readers of this blog will know, I do trade in collectable woodworking tools, but I don’t often get round to keeping many of them myself. I see little point in keeping tools on a shelf, when they could be being used in a workshop and appreciated in use, rather than for purely aesthetic reasons. …
Feb 21
Info on coach making tools?
This beautiful coachmakers plough plane went past my limit last week on a well-known auction site. I should have gone higher, but a limit is a limit. It’s a stunning tool with a fence that will work around curves, such as a coachmaker might require. I have had so many coachmaker-related tools of this kind …
Jan 07
Marples ‘Shamrock’ Tool Cabinet
This little Marples cabinet is offered for sale from Michael French. Please get in touch with Michael by emailing him with this link if you would like to ask any questions or talk prices.
Dec 22
Get Andy turning again!
If you use Twitter, you may already have seen the awful outcome of an electrical fire at the workshop of @AndyWoodturner, (Andy Coates). The pictures below show some of the damage sustained on the 20th December. Andy is a highly regarded craftsman and also …
Dec 12
Moseley & Simpson?
One of the most-read posts on Hackney Tools is about the life of tool maker John Moseley. A reader of the blog got in touch recently about a pair of mortice chisels he had been given and the name stamp in ‘Moseley & Simpson’. I wondered if anyone might know more about this …
