Tiny Tool Treasure

For the first time in more than 30 years, I decided to enter a competition – the ‘Tiny Treasures’ section of the Wootha Prize associated with the Maleny Wood Expo. I reckoned a set of miniature working tools should qualify as ‘treasures’ (at least to some). So I set out to make a set of one-third to half scale that are fairly faithful working copies of tools you might find in a late 19th century cabinetmaker’s chest.

I started with a couple of bench planes; a panel plane modelled on an old Spiers, and a copy of a Norris A5 (minus the patent adjuster). With dimensions).