Upcoming 2024 Meetings
If you would like to be notified of upcoming meetings by email, please drop us your email in the contact section at the bottom right. Attendance at the first meeting is free. Dues are $15 yearly.
Millers Run Forge. Est. 1975
Date: April 7, 2024
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 28 Vincenty Rd., Canonsburg, PA 15317
David Vincenty will be hosting the first club meeting for 2024.
Agenda:
- David Vincenty's blacksmith shop tour and tool collection.
- Blacksmith demonstration
- Trade and sell vintage tools
- 2024 membership dues.
Bring along any tools you would like to sell or trade. A few tables will be available. If you have a small table that you can bring, that may be helpful.
We will be collecting membership dues for 2024. Annual dues are $15, we accept cash or check. If you are a first timer, you are always welcome to attend a meeting to see if the club is worth joining.
Past Meetings
A Tool Story, or Two or Three by Mark Eastlick
Date: November 19, 2023
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Stewart Hall, Harmony Museum, Harmony, PA
Our next meeting will be held at the Historic Harmony Museum - Stewart Hall.
Agenda:
- "A Tool Story, or Two or Three" by Mark Eastlick
- Trade and sell vintage tools.
As collectors we often ask ourselves how do we best restore the tool we have just acquired? For what purpose are we restoring a tool? Mark Eastlick, president of the Mid West Tool Collectors Association, will be making a presentation about preserving the history of a tool rather than the story being lost for all time once the current owner passes it to another one.
We encourage everyone to bring tools for sale, trade, or discussion. There are tables and chairs available. All members can display their tools on these tables or use your own table at no charge.
Settler's Cabin Park - Tomahawk Shelter
Date: June 25, 2023
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 608 Ridge Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15205
Our next meeting will be held at the Settler's Cabin Park - Tomahawk Shelter.
Agenda:
- Tool restoration: Real japanning
- Trade and sell vintage tools
- 2023 membership dues.
In a recent discussion on tool restoration, the subject of japanning came up. Since I had a ready-made mix I decided to give it a try on an old block plane with most of its japanning worn away.
Have you japanned any of your tools? Have you chosen the Rust-Oleum way? Would you rather leave your tool intact?
Bring along any tools you would like to show, sell or trade. A few tables will be available. If you have a small table that you can bring, that may be helpful.
We will be collecting membership dues for 2023. Annual dues are $15, we accept cash or check. If you are a first timer, you are always welcome to attend a meeting to see if the club is worth joining.
Millers Run Forge. Est. 1975
Date: March 26, 2023
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 28 Vincenty Rd., Canonsburg, PA 15317
David Vincenty will be hosting the first club meeting for 2023.
Agenda:
- David Vincenty's blacksmith shop tour and tool collection.
- Blacksmith demonstration
- Trade and sell vintage tools
- 2023 membership dues.
Bring along any tools you would like to sell or trade. A few tables will be available. If you have a small table that you can bring, that may be helpful.
We will be collecting membership dues for 2023. Annual dues are $15, we accept cash or check. If you are a first timer, you are always welcome to attend a meeting to see if the club is worth joining.
Date: December 4, 2022
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: 218 Mercer Street, Stewart Hall, Harmony Museum, Harmony, PA
Topic: Show and Tell. Discuss an interesting tool or a recent find.
Date: September 25, 2022
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Stewart Hall, Harmony Museum, Harmony, PA
Date: Sunday June 26, 2022
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Westview Shelter, North Park
We encourage everyone to bring tools for sale, trade, or discussion. There are four picnic tables within the shelter. If you have a portable table, consider bringing it. All members can display their tools on these tables or use their own table at no charge. If you are a first timer, you are always welcome to attend a meeting to see if the club is worth joining.
Date: Sunday April 3, 2022
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Moccasin Shelter, Settlers Cabin Park
Carl Roberto will discuss Edwin Hahn planes.
2021 Meetings
The next meeting of The Three Rivers Tool Collectors will be at Historic Harmony in the Stewart Hall.
Date: December 5, 2021
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Stewart Hall, Historic Harmony, 218 Mercer Street, Harmony, PA 16037. (The red arrow in the photo below shows the parking lot. The hall is immediately to the right when pulling into the gravel parking lot).
Topic: Show and Tell. Discuss an interesting tool.
We encourage everyone to bring tools for sale, trade, or discussion. There are tables and chairs available. All members can display their tools on these tables or use your own table at no charge. We will follow Pennsylvania Department of Health and CDC guidelines for COVID that would be in effect for December 5, 2021. As of now, all attendees should wear masks.
If you paid dues for 2020, those dues will carry over for 2021. If you are a first timer, you are always welcome to attend a meeting to see if the club is worth joining.
2020 Meetings
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our meetings are postponed until further notice. Dues paid this year will be carried over to next year.
North Park Lounge in HD
DATE: Sunday, March 8, 2020
TIME: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ADDRESS: 20810 Route 19 Cranberry Twp, PA 16066
AGENDA:
- Tool swap
- The topic will be to bring in and discuss a user-made (individually-made) hand tool or jig
Admission is free. Non-members are always invited for free to attend their first meeting.
Please bring your appetite for lunch. We'll need to spend $100 as a group for lunch to eliminate the room charge.
2019 Previous Meetings
Harmony Museum, Stewart Hall
DATE: Sunday, December 8, 2019
TIME: 10 a.m.
ADDRESS: 223 Mercer Street, Harmony, PA 16037
Park in the gravel parking lot.
AGENDA
- Trade and sell vintage tools
- Brief round-table discussion of your tool interests
- Free admission
Settler's Cabin Park, Papoose Drive, Moccasin Shelter.
DATE: Sunday, September 8, 2019
TIME: 10 a.m.
- Hollow and round planes.
- Spare parts. Many of us have a bin of spare tool parts around the workshop that might contain plane blades, knurled knobs, specialized screws, depth stops, etc. Many of us also have that perfect tool that is just one part short of being functional. Bring in those orphaned parts as well as the tools with the missing parts to see if we can get some of these tools up and running.
- Check out our new vintage tool requests page.
Sunday, June 9, 2019 starting at 10 am
Location: Zelienople Community Park, Shelter 2 (see map below, we are using shelter 2, not 1 as highlighted on the map)
The park entrance is at the corner of South Division St. & East Beaver St.
Proceed through the park main entrance road, go around the circle 3/4 of the way and make a left onto the road to the pavilions.
As usual bring any tools to sell or trade.
The first meeting of the 2019 season will be:
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2019
Time: 11 am to 1:30 pm
Location: North Park Lounge in HD
20810 US 19
Cranberry Township, PA 16066
The feature discussion will be:
TOPIC: What is it?
Do you have a tool that you wondered, "What on earth is that?", but ended up buying it anyway. Since then, you may have figured out the purpose of the tool...or not. Well, we would like you to bring in that tool to talk about it.
Bring along any tools you would like to sell or trade. A few tables will be available. If you have a small table that you can bring, that may be helpful.
All members and those interested in joining are welcome to attend.
Please bring your appetites for lunch. If we can spend $100 on lunch as a group, then the venue will be free.