Other stuff

Mostly copies of obscure but useful documents.

A visit to the Eddystone Lighthouse

An article published in the Strand Magazine in 1892.

Alguada Reef Lighthouse

An article published in the journal Engineering in 1866.

Timber price lists

A small collection of digitised timber merchants' catalogues.

Lunasix 3 instruction manual

For those who have a Gossen Lunasix 3 photographic light meter, but who don't have the instruction manual. Read it page by page, or all together in pdf format.

Record multi-plane manual

For wood workers and tool collectors, a downloadable instruction manual for the Record No 405 multi-plane. This tool is an English copy of the original Stanley 45 combination plane. The instructions in this manual will work for the Stanley 45 too.

Woodhead flooring cramps

A range of carpenters’ tools designed, patented, and manufactured in Brisbane

Nikon NH-9 lens hood

For devotees of the old Canon FD camera system: Information about a 72mm screw-in lens hood, designed for the Nikkor 28mm PC lens, but a useful alternative to the hard-to-get Canon BW-72 hood.

Herreshoff’s table

A copy of a design for a yacht designer’s drawing bench, designed by L Francis Herreshoff and documented by Uffa Fox.

Tools from Rwanda

A group of woodworking tools collected and described by Hans Muller.

St Helena Island: assessment and conservation of structures

A paper I presented to a meeting of the Institution of Engineers of Australia (Queensland Division), later published in their Technical papers, Vol 28, 1987.