Tool Tales Stories and Tips for the Antique Tool Collector

Storytelling is an ancient art. At their best stories provide a very personal and engaging way to pass information experience insight and imagination from one group to another from one generation to another. Tool Tales is full of such stories. Its author Herb Kean is a noted tool collector dealer restorer and author (as well as renowned raconteur). Here he has culled from magazines journals newspapers and encyclopedias 50 of his best stories and tips columns written over the course of his long career. These stories range from whimsical tales of trips taken in search of old tools to more technical pieces detailing the how-to’s of solving many a knotty tool-related problem. Full of valuable information to help the reader in buying selling and restoring antique tools they are also full of wit and good old-fashioned fun.