It is not just a case of taking a couple of photos, adding a price and then by some miracle, it all appears on the internet.

Sorting and cleaning stock items, then working out how to photograph them and how many angles to take of them. After that, come up with an interesting and catchy description of the item. What about size and weight, after all an online shopper will probably want it shipping by courier or posting. Before that can happen, how can the payments be organised. Card processing and/or Paypal. or old fashioned way of cheques in the post?  What if teh customer wants to collect and pay cash? 

Once thats all done, how to get the search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing or Google, to notice my website, and respond to searches for products that I offer!

Well, the good news is, that I have sorted all the above out and dealing with the mammoth task of populating the shop with stock. Only several thousand tools and assorted paraphanalia to list.

Got to the stage that, the on-line shop is now live. Yippee!!! finally got there!

Lots of vintage woodworking tools for users and collectors will be listed over the coming days.

Metal and infill planes by Norris or Spiers or Matthieson. Stanley, Record or Preston. From a brass violin makers plane to a Bullnose or rebate plane. Or, maybe, something larger like a Jackplane or Jointer. Or even very large in the guise of a Coopers' plane?

As usual, it is always worth asking if an item is in stock, since the on-line shop will always be a few days behind

Regards for now...

Hello and welcome to my blog.

As an enthusiastic user, and collector, of old woodworking tools, and having closed the Old Tool mart 'walk in' shop,  to set up an on-line shop and start selling the duplicate and unwanted items that I have acquired over the years.

There is a lot of stock to list, so if you are wanting or needing woodworking tools, email me with your wish list.

Please feel free to use this blog if you need help or information with buying or selling old woodworking tools.

My own particular interest are those tools used to make or restore furniture.

For instance, with a good choice of well-tuned moulding planes to hand, it is a quick job to run a short length of bead or moulding, as opposed to trying to find the right cutter and settings for an electric router or spindle moulder.

Also, potentially safer!!

The peace and quiet that prevails when hand planing a large piece of timber, such as a table top; along with the pride and sense of achievement that you feel, is priceless.

Power tools have their place and uses but.... in my opinion well-tuned hand tools cannot be bettered!

 Thats made a  start, till next time, regards from Robert