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The CT-15 is Coming Together!

The best part of my job is when components of a new tool arrive for first article inspection–and in this case it is really a big deal because the parts on my desk today are for Commemorative Tool #15,...

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Special Limited Edition 25th Anniversary Plane

Last year when we introduced the CT-14 Shoulder Plane, we made a couple out of solid stainless steel with no intention of ever producing a stainless version–the machining costs are astronomical. I have...

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Stainless Steel Shoulder Plane…Going…Going…

This is a courtesy post regarding one of biggest surprises we have seen around here in a long time. Last week we announced plans to build a limited edition of the plane pictured below. With the run...

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What the BLEEP is THIS?

It’s summer and we are supposed to be having fun. Let’s begin… The video elves at Bridge City are busy compiling footage of our newest tool which by no coincidence is pictured below. Can you guess what...

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What the BLEEP is THIS? The backstory…

It is not easy inventing a tool that every woodworker in the world will want–but we have done it again (the others you don’t know about yet). Which prompts me to ask this question; Does anybody know of...

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Bridge City Announces Commemmorative Tool #16

One of my favorite quotes dates back to the turn of the 20th century and has been the foundation for all of our Commemorative Tools; “It must be useful, it must work dependably, it must be beautiful,...

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CT-17 First Peek…

I want to thank all of you crazy people for participating in the CT-17 guessing game–although nobody won the $100,000,000,000 prize, EVERYBODY who contributed to this thread (up until noon 4/15) has a...

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CT-17 Block Plane; The Back-story…

As promised last week, here are further specs on the CT-17 Dual Angle Block Plane; Weight: 748 grams/1.65 lbs Overall Height in Use: 61.2 mm/2.41 inches Sole Length: 162.5 mm/6.4 inches Sole Width:...

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First Pics of the CT-18 Dual Angle Smoothing Plane…

Drivel Starved Nation; It’s Friday and I am about to take the afternoon off to meet some old friends. But, I thought you might like to see the first pics of the CT-18 Dual Angle Smoothing plane… We...

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Bridge City Tool Works: Commemorative Tool #19 Sneak Peek…

Drivel Starved Nation; Over the past three months, I have been working on Commemorative Tool #19. For those of you new to this Totally Awesome and Worthless Blog, we make one tool each year (well...

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