Hand Tool Business Sale - A Unique Opportunity
After years of designing & manufacturing premium woodwork tools we are now focused on leatherwear. We no longer manufacture hand planes.
We have never been short of customer demand. We have many requests for our tools, almost daily.
This business is primed for domestic & international growth.
We have never publicly compared our products with Lie-Nielsen & Veritas, but our customers and observers have, and on many occasions preferred our tools.
We enjoyed taking on the might of Thomas Lie-Nielsen’s 80 or so employees & Veritas probably more. Not that our businesses can be compared volume wise. One person can operate this business with the required amount of enthusiasm, finance & business skills.
More than anything, we would love to see the tools we developed continue to be made available to woodworkers worldwide, under the Henry Eckert banner or another brand name. It took many years, significant financial investment, trial & error (lots of it!), supply research, testing, and more to produce our tools finally at a quality & design level that was competitive worldwide.
We are asking for Expressions of Interest for someone or a party that may wish to explore the purchase of this business. We will require signing of confidentially agreement prior to any discussion.
We offer all required to manufacture the following woodwork tools in Manganese Bronze or Ductile Iron:
60 1/2 Low Angle Block Plane, 102 Small Block Plane, 62 Low Angle Jack Plane, 507 Rebate Plane, 164 Low Angle Smoother, No 65 Adjustable Mouth Block Plane, Honing Guide, Holdfast and more. Plus a design model for a 5 1/2 Low Angle Bench Plane never produced. Some tools are exclusive to Henry Eckert.
- Casting patterns for all tools
- Original design model for each too.
- CNC machining programs for all tools
- Machining contractor resource for all tools
- Casting resource for Ductile Iron & Manganese Bronze
- Supply resource for tool (blade) steel
- Shape cutting & sharpening resource for blades. Heat treating blades.
- Wooden Handle jigs
- Product Cost Sheets
- Laser cutting brass components resource
- Assembly technique & production strategy
- Assistance to instigate further tools, namely Bevel Down bench panes, No 4, No 5, No 6, No 7.
- Website / Data Base if required
This is not a start-up. The R&D, supplier development, tooling, testing, refinement and brand establishment has already been done.
