General information

Society of Architecture Workshop Managers (SAWS)
A consortium of managers of collegiate architecture shop facilities across North America. Links to many other shops pages and other valuable information.

Shops Survey

Electronic Neanderthal
Neanderthal = Caveman: User of primitive tools. This site is dedicated to the fight against the electrically-powered tool. Loaded with information, lore, gore, and links, the Electronic Neanderthal may just convince you that using a hand plane is more fun than using a sander.

Minnesota Woodworkers Guild
World of Woods species identification, samples, and information.

Taunton Press
The largest publisher of woodworking related books and periodicals.

Catalog retailers

Highland Hardware
800-241-6748
Offers unique, high quality hand and power tools for the discerning craftsperson. Offers a wide range of classes on woodworking topics by respected professionals. Supporters of craft education programs.

Bridge City Tool Works
800-253-3332
Makers of beautiful, highly accurate, expensive-and-worth-every-penny, measuring and layout tools for the discerning woodworker. Needless to say, we don't have any of these tools in the shop.

Garrett Wade Tools
800-221-2942
New York City? Catalog retailers of high quality hand tools. Stuff that nobody else sells.

Lee Valley Tool
800-267-8735
Excellent variety of high-quality traditional tools and innovative new products. The designers and makers of Veritas tools. Leonard Lee, the president is our personal sharpening guru.

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks
800-327-2520
Manufactures of highest quality hand planes. Brass, bronze, and iron planes in traditional forms. Again, we don't have any.

Japan Woodworker
800-537-7820
Many people swear that traditional Japanese chisels have no equal. We cannot judge as we are unable to afford them. Japanese saws however are a different matter all together.

amazon.com -- Tools & Hardware
800-343-4205
Tool Crib just isn't the same since they were bought by the big A, but they are still the next best thing to Seven Corners Hardware/Tools on Sale. These two will beat each other's prices, but then what. If we put 'em out of business we'll pay more to someone else.

Harbor Freight
763-571-9390
If tools are too much for your wallet everywhere else, Harbor Frieght is the place for you. This place sells imported tools at cut-rate prices. Of course, you do get what you pay for, but some of it works. Of particular interest is the mini cut-off saw, the likes of which we haven't seen elsewhere at these prices.

Micro-Mark
800-225-1066
"The Small Tool Specialists." Modeling and other small tools you can't find anywhere else.