Oroville >> “With tools, we can do anything. Without tools, we’re just another animal,” is a phrase Carl S. “Bud” Bolt firmly believes and teaches. Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum began about 60 years ago ...

Browsing an estate sale, yard sale or even an antique shop, shoppers might be looking for any number of items that pique their interest. But items such as hand tools are often overlooked. With grease ...

On Sunday, Aug. 1, members of the Early American Industries Association and the Mid-West Tools Collectors Association will host their annual Antique Tool Show and Sale at Garfield Farm Museum in ...

Today I want to visit with you about a conversation we had with fellow docents. They shared with us that one of their friends visited the museum and was quite disappointed because all it had in it was ...

Lynn Dowd's cigarettes in a duck foot ashtray next to tools he uses at his workshop at Dowd's Vintage and Antique Tools in Garland. Lynn Dowd's blacksmith vise from 1791 at Dowd's Vintage and Antique ...

Thousands of handcrafted antique tools that a retired woodworking teacher spent decades collecting but never used are worth more than $35,000. Roy Turnage, 88, spent years adding to his haul that ...

So, you think you know your tools? I'm not talking about hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers; we all know what those are. This article is about the tools of yore, made by hand and often by the ...