The tool chest of Benjamin Seaton, 1797
By: [editor, Jane Rees]
Contributors: Tool and Trades History Society
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Tool and Trades History Society
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Wakefield]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780947673215
Subjects: Chests; Tools; History
Description: "The Seaton Chest, now in the Guildhall Museum, Rochester, Kent, is the finest and most complete surviving example of an 18th century cabinet-makers kit in Britain, if not the world. The tools, which are generally in little used condition, were bought in 1796 by Joseph Seaton, cabinet-maker, of Chatham, Kent, for his 21-year-old son, Benjamin. they were supplied by Christopher Gabriel and Sons, a leading tool dealer and plane-maker of Banner Street, London. Benjamin made a fine tool chest for his new tools and recorder their cost in an inventory which survives with the chest. ... The 2nd edition, written by both TATHS members and the staff of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, includes a considerable amount of new information about the tools and the chest and also a description of the making of a replica chest for Colonial Williamsburg."--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Seaton family / Bernard Baverstock; title: Theinventory; title: The chest; title: The planes; title: The saws; title: The chisels & gouges; title: The files and rasps; title: Measuring & marking; title: Miscellaneous tools; title: Drawings of the tools / Jay Gaynor & Peter Ross; title: Making the replica chest / Kaare Loftheim; title: Construction drawings for the replica chest / Mack Headley; title: The cordage / Des Pawson