re: Show us the OLDEST WOODWORKING TOOL in your shop

My oldest hand tool that I can date is my Stanley no. 3, Ty 9, so it dates between 1902-1909. I don’t have a cool story about this tool (other than its old) but….

…My oldest power tool is the Walker-Turner 16” that I inherited from my FIL, which does have a cool story. It’s usually hard to actually date the WTs since they used the same numbers for a huge range of dates, but…my FIL got this saw in the 70s. As the story goes, he bought it from a retired tradesman who was unloading his tools due to his age. Supposedly, the saw was new in ‘42-‘43 when the tradesman took receipt of it off the delivery truck at the production shop he was working at for the War effort in the San Francisco area (Richmond, I believe). When he left the shop, many years later, he bought the saw off of them and kept it in his own shop, until selling it to my FIL… Kinda cool!