Vintage Tools

This is a list of vintage tool resellers with online stores. Last updated November 2023.

US TOOL VENDORS

• Falcon-Wood – vintage tool reseller, including tools from many trades, e.g. machinist, coach makers, coopers etc.
• The Best Things – vintage and modern tools
• Antiques of a Mechanical Nature – excellent selection of vintage woodworking tools, and also antique sewing machines, and surveying equipment.
• Liberty Tool Co. – online storefront for Liberty Tool Company in Liberty, Maine.
• Jim Bode Tools – a cornucopia of vintage tools from a number of trades. (daily emails with new tools)
• John Zimmers Antique Tools – vintage woodworking tools
• Union Hill Antique Tools – vintage woodworking tools
• Hyperkitten Tool Co. – vintage woodworking tools (new tools added twice a month)
• The Superior Works – tool lists by email subscription (+ definitive guide to Stanley Planes)
• Sydnas Sloot – woodworking tools, Inuit and nautical artifacts
• The Great Adirondack Tool Company – a nice small selection of tools
• Antique Used Tools – great selection of Stanley, and non-Stanley planes and parts
• The Vintage Tool Shoppe – cool vintage tool store
• Time Tested Tools – Stanley and other planes.
• Vintage Vials – tools, specialists in levels and inclinometers
• Loon Lake Tool Works – vintage tools, Hamler Scraper Insert

CANADIAN TOOL VENDORS

• Ontario Antique Tools – great selection of vintage woodworking tools (Ontario)
• NS Antique Tools and Collectables – woodworking tools (Alberta)
• Ted Dawson Antique Tools – exceptional selection of vintage tools, some rare (Ontario) 🆕
• LeToolMan’s – vintage tools (Ontario) 🆕
• Old Trade Tools – vintage tools (Ontario) 🆕
• Vinty Fine Tools – vintage tools, many trades (Ontario) 🆕

BRITISH TOOL VENDORS

• Oldtools – vintage tools of a British kind (only sell to UK and certain European countries)
• Inchmartine Tool Bazaar – great selection of British woodworking tools
• Tony Murland Antique Tools – vintage and modern tool sales (under redevelopment)
• Old Hand Tools – vintage woodworking, gardening and leather working tools.
• Old School Tools – vintage tools, great selection of wooden planes
• Second Hand Tools – craftsman’s hand tools
• Tooltique – lots of antique tools in exceptional condition
• The Vintage Tool Shop – great British vintage tool shop (Dorchester)
• Fenland Tools – vintage woodworking tools
• Daegrad Tools – Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Medieval tools (Sheffield)

EUROPEAN TOOL VENDORS

• Tanley and Lane – vintage tools and antiques, online + physical store (Denmark) ***NEW***

Australian TOOL VENDORS

• The Tool Exchange – extensive vintage tools (can be expensive with shipping)
• Hans Brunner Tools – no longer selling tools, but a great resource
• Vintage Tool Shop – store (Melbourne, VIC)
• Vintage Tool Shop (online) – online store, extensive range of vintage tools
• Peter McBride Antique and Old Tools – a small selection of tools.
• Old Tool Shop – vintage tools (Avoca Beach, NSW) 🆕
• Adelaide Vintage Tools – vintage tools (Adelaide, SA) 🆕

DEFUNCT VENDORS

This is a list of companies that are no longer in business.

• Duco Tools – one of the only European vintage tool vendors (English and Dutch) (defunct 2018)
• Lone Pine Toolworks – some vintage tools, tool restoration (defunct 2019)