While goofing off in the garage…err shop with a friend. I was digging through a box of old tools my Godfather had given to me. There was a number of augers and cold chisels. A few homemade tools that looked like they were recovered from an old Spanish Galleon. And this.
I thought is was an old file handle. Upon picking it up (and putting down my beer.) I found it made a rattling sound. On close examination, I noticed the back of the handle unscrewed. Inside was a small wrench and a number carving bits. I soaked the parts in Evapo-Rust and gave them a scrub with some steel wool. What a cool find.
Just thought I would share.
Len
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It reminds me of the tool space in the handle of the old Yankee push drill.
Frosty
Some people have all the luck. Do I see a name on the ferrule ??
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Yes, but it's not very legible.
Here's what I can make out with my poor eyesight and a large magnifier.
First line: ? A?KEN?
Second line: PATENT
There's nothing else on the ferrule.
Len
Hey, this sounds like the start of an interesting thread: What is the coolest old, hand-me-down tool in your shop? As for me I have an antique bar clamp, don't remember where it came from and from my Granddad a jewelers folding magnifying glass with some traces of the clay(?) that held the stones he was cutting as a diamond cutter. The frame of it looks to be some very early plastic. KDM
"... if people did not die so untidily, most men, and all women, would commit at least one murder in their lives." R. Kipling
"What is the coolest old, hand-me-down tool in your shop?"Without question, my grandfather's Unisaw, his 6" delta jointer, and all of his handtools. I grew up working with him in his cabinet shop and everytime I pick up one of these tools, I can close my eyes and be 12 years old again, working next to my grandpa.
Unfortunately I the first woodworker in my family since my great grandfather(gone before I had a chance to meet him). All his tools were lost somewhere along the line except a small ball peen he made the handle for. It was in a sad shape when I received it so I'm making a new handle for it using the original as sort of knife scales, if that makes any sense. Its not going to be very utilitarian but more a gift for my grandmother.
-Ryan
My grandfather, with an 8" Driver brand table saw, built at least 1/2 dozen houses.So what? a fella might ask, and wellso, but when I point out that he annealed, forged, formed and then hardened and tempered his own moulding cutters for that saw out of old files for the mouldings, and indeed scavenged and cut his own dado set out of the bottow of old horse drawn shovels (as if anyone knows what they are nowadays!!) and made the chippers out of old files , well folks I still got em, and the moulding cutters are the scariest tool cutters I've ever used on a table saw. Once was quite enuf. The Dado set still cuts like a damn. I have them cutters to this day, somew 50+ years laterThat may well be cool to some folks, but what was the way coolest was when he let me and my brother use his home made lathe, without supervision, when we were not a tad more than 7 years old.
He was a swede..he had an adze, he could build anything. Hardley a victim of javlecrit mass marketing. indeed, http://www.keremeos.net/mascot/images/Mascot5.jpg was one of the projects he worked on. may well be some of the fruits of his labours. I also have his 45, 50, hammers, mallets, hand forgerd chisels, and yes, at least one bent hand saw that he never figured out how it got bent. After 50 years i ain't gonna fess up now.To me that is cool. There is more than a tad more to it than mere fundamental and seemingly provincial carpentrocentric phenomenon though. Just who was that fellah Joe Hill anyway? Whatever, it is still cool. Eric in Cowtown
Neat, Len! Love the patina on the handle. Question, though: What's the part in the Cool2 picture that has a diamond-shape to it?
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
It's the wrench. I attached in the third picture to the tool but it may not have been clear.
Len
Ah, gotcha. No focus before the caffeine kicks in.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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