The original multitool!
The original multitool!
I've always loved the thing. The hatchet end sharpens up real nice. You can actually cut small twigs with it and pound carpet tacks!
It is a reasonably plier and wire snip and the screwdriver is fine, of course. Likewise the nail pull.
There are no markings at all. Just this year I finally saw another one, larger but the same, unfortunately unmarked as well
Anyway, there it is!
So, after I posted, I remembered that I hadn't shown scale. Darned if there wasn't a carpet tack stuck to its cardboard/duct tape sheath! Lol! That's the top pic
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“Hey Ann, gotchyer knife?!”
“Hey Ann, gotchyer knife?!”
Re: The original multitool!
I love those old tools. What do you need done? It will do it. From an age when you didn't have a lot of tools.
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STAHL is one company that made these tools. I think this is the same STAHL as WKC Stahl Metallwarenfabrik in Solingen that made ceremonial swords.
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Very close! That give me a starting point. Thanks!
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STAHL is German for STEEL. I have one of those multitools marked GUSSSTAHL which is German for CAST STEEL. As with the OP's mine has no maker's mark.
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Its a box tool. Used to be every thing was shipped in wooden crates. Every store or warehouse had several. Pretty common, but usually they are pretty beat up from being used for jobs other than what they were made for.
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A box tool...well, that’s interesting!
I know this thing came from Mom’s family. What’s a bit funny is that the oldest tool I own is from my Dads first job, at a crate factory, in about 1927. It’s a square faced hammer with two claws on the opposite side. Sorry, it’s currently buried in a box. So, the two senior tools I own are both for the same thing, more or less!
I know this thing came from Mom’s family. What’s a bit funny is that the oldest tool I own is from my Dads first job, at a crate factory, in about 1927. It’s a square faced hammer with two claws on the opposite side. Sorry, it’s currently buried in a box. So, the two senior tools I own are both for the same thing, more or less!
I’m too young to be this old!
“Hey Ann, gotchyer knife?!”
“Hey Ann, gotchyer knife?!”
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Hi zoogirl. Here's an ad for the tool and one that I have. Please note credit for the ad goes to poster Supratentorial.
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Re: The original multitool!
Also a member here but hasn't checked in for a year.smiling-knife wrote:Hi zoogirl. Here's an ad for the tool and one that I have. Please note credit for the ad goes to poster Supratentorial.
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012