Dowds Vintage & Antique Tools

It all began innocently enough. My aim was to acquire old hand tools to use in my furniture-making business. The more I acquired and learned to use, the more fasci-nated I became with the tools used by previous gener-ations - tools that built this, and other, nations before electricity became such an important factor in our lives. History, as well as handcraft, has always been a passion of mine, and in using old hand tools, the two seemed to meld seamlessly together.