Woodworking blogs
The English Woodworker – techniques, videos, etc.
giant Cypress – Japanese woodworking
Praire Artisan Woodshop – Great Roubo workbench build
Høvelbenk – Nordic blog about tools, woodworking, boatbuilding (great site)
Lumber Links (CANADA)
Legacy Lumber – logs, boules, slabs (Erin, Ontario)
Exotic Woods – Everything you could imagine lumber-wise (Burlington, Ontario)
The Wood Shed – Lumber, lumber and more lumber (Smithville, Ontario)
Old Schoolhouse Mill – Live edge slabs (Caledon, Ontario)
SAGE Restoration – pine tar, linseed oil, stains, insulation (Canada)
Tool Restoration Blogs
time tested tools – tool restoration tutorials
Restoring a hand saw – a process
Type Studies and Tool INFO
Millers Falls eggbeater drills
galootopia – a compendium of info, esp. on Swedish chisels.
Norris Planes – dedicated to Norris style planes
Tool Stores
- The Best Things
- Peck Tools
- Dieter Schmid Fine Tools (Germany)
- Highland Woodworking (USA)
- Dictum (Germany)
- Hand Eye Supply (USA)
- Woodworker Specialties (Canada) – carving tools, Pfeil
- Northwest Passage Tool Inc. – Shinwa, Tomé Fèteira rasps, Shapton, Narex (Canada)
- Tersa Knives Inc. – RALI planes (Canada)
Research resources
Norsk Folkemuseum – Digital Museum (eg. kiste = chest, Høvel = plane)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Digital archive (e.g. furniture, chests)
Peter McBride – Metal Plane Making
Plane Design
- Kalmar läna museum – digital museum with Swedish tools (search for Hyvel)
Woodworking blogs:
- The English Woodworker
- giant Cypress
- Prairie Artisan Workshop – (split top Roubo, tool making)
- Ben Law (woodsman)
- Paul Sellers
- Heartwood
working by hand 
I do believe you are missing a word from the phrase under the site name in your masthead graphic (“at” perhaps?)
Are there any existing pictures or illustrations of the Knapp 7” Block plane?
I have a plane with a large wooden rear knob, a screw type lever cap, an unmarked blade , and original cast markings on the bed too corroded to read I’ve been told it’s a Knapp but would like to get confirmation
Hi Dick,
I have one picture of it I found in a price guide. Will post it above, although it’s not the best picture.
cheers, Mike
I would also suggest an inclusion of Martin J. Donnelly’s Antique Tools, http://www.mjdtools.com. I don’t know if you’ve heard of him, but he sells plane parts and a few other tools on Ebay (https://www.ebay.com/usr/greatcatalogue) and auctions full planes and other antique tools several times throughout the year in Indiana, New York, and New Hampshire.