Hand Tool Preservation
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Membership

Member Benefits

Membership of the HTPAA offers those interested in traditional hand tools and techniques a range of benefits:

  • Copies of the full colour quarterly journal - "The Tool Chest"
  • Copies of the quarterly newsletter - "The Sharp Edge"
  • Copies of the quarterly newsletter "Spanner & Wrench Collector"
  • Reprints of selected past trade catalogues
  • Regular meetings and demonstrations
  • Opportunity to work on Thomas Caine and HTPAA Tool Collections
  • Antique & Collectable Hand Tool Market at a dedicated venue 3 times a year and the opportunity to buy and sell tools during intervals at General Meetings 6 times a year
  • Extensive library of catalogues and technical books
  • Free advertising of tools for sale, wanted or swap in "The Sharp Edge"
  • Technical advice on tool restoration & preservation of artefacts
  • Biennial Tool & Trade Conference
  • Opportunity to participate/demonstrate at various public functions
  • Visits by world-renowned tool collecting specialists and authors
  • Contacts with Australian and overseas tool collectors
  • Periodic social functions, usually in a unique setting in an historical context.

Membership Application

You can read the Rules of the Association then complete our online membership application below or if you prefer you can download the application form. If you download the form, you need to print it, complete and sign it, then scan and email it to or mail the printed copy to: Membership Secretary, HTPAA, PO Box 28, The Basin, VIC 3154. (For membership renewal please go to Member Renewal).

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Your Interests

Membership Contact List

An updated Membership Contact List is distributed to all HTPAA members with the November issue of The Tool Chest. The information published will be your name, 3 tool interests, suburb/town, phone number and email address. If you DO NOT agree to have your details included please select 'No Details to be included' below:

Name 3 specific tool interests that you would like included in the Membership Contact List (e.g. crosscut saws, sailmaking, Turner planes):

Want to Get Involved?

Please pay the appropriate membership fee either by online credit card payment or deposit to our bank account using the details on the next page and confirmation email once you successfully submit this form. (Note that all overseas memberships require payment in Australian dollars.)

Remember - if you don't tell us who the payment is from in the reference using your name we will have your money but your application will stall!!

Once the payment has been confirmed, we will complete processing of your membership application.

Next Antique & Collectable Hand Tool Market

The next Antique & Collectable Hand Tool Market is on Sunday 21st May 2023 9.00 am to 12.30 pm at St. Anthony's School Hall, 164 Neerim Rd, Corner Neerim & Grange Rds, Caulfield East, Melway Ref. 68 F4. For more information see the Tool Market page.