All About Pocket Knives

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Very nice tools, Paul. Very cool shop set up as well. I see the little Stanley 702 vise. I have a similar no. 700, and love it.

The Swedish planes are supposed to have good irons in them. I have never seen the Maun parallel pliers before - very interesting.

..and the leather handled bill-hook looks nicely restored.

The Brades company has been around a long time:

https://madeinoldbury.co.uk/articles/brades-works/

Wow! What a nice old tool box! Stanley, Marples, etc. Is that a No 2 or No 3 Stanley plane? The No 2s are somewhat rare and very pricey over here. The no 3s are much more common and don't fetch much.

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:17 pm Very nice tools, Paul. Very cool shop set up as well. I see the little Stanley 702 vise. I have a similar no. 700, and love it.

The Swedish planes are supposed to have good irons in them. I have never seen the Maun parallel pliers before - very interesting.

..and the leather handled bill-hook looks nicely restored.

The Brades company has been around a long time:

https://madeinoldbury.co.uk/articles/brades-works/

Thanks Mike maun have been around since around the 40’s I think , they make a lot of William Bernard style pliers , I’ve a mixture of old Bernard and maun parallel pliers, most of my hammers I use are brades , I’m back off to the big car boot sale I got the billhook from a few weeks back Sunday , so hopefully I’ll get a few more bargains

Good luck, Paul!

A couple of Father's day gifts. An old Stanley No. 112 scraper plane - in need of some cleaning up. They made these from 1885 to 1944.

And a very large Stanley No. 8 plane. This thing is 24" long, the iron is 2 5/8" wide, and she weighs around 10 lbs. This one has a "sweetheart" iron and dates from 1925 to 1928. I included a pic of it next to a No. 7 and a No. 5 for scale.

And my daughter painted me an old "Stanley Tools" logo to hang beside my plane till (whenever I finally get it made).

Unk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 2:41 am Good luck, Paul!

A couple of Father's day gifts. An old Stanley No. 112 scraper plane - in need of some cleaning up. They made these from 1885 to 1944.

And a very large Stanley No. 8 plane. This thing is 24" long, the iron is 2 5/8" wide, and she weighs around 10 lbs. This one has a "sweetheart" iron and dates from 1925 to 1928. I included a pic of it next to a No. 7 and a No. 5 for scale.

And my daughter painted me an old "Stanley Tools" logo to hang beside my plane till (whenever I finally get it made).

There beauties Mike , I mainly collect Stanley , love there quality and it’s a make I’ve used for years , enjoy these

There are not exactly very old , but one I’ve had since the 80’s and the rest picked up over time , you can still buy aftermarket stick batteries for these and most of the parts , my angle me is called Madkita 540 as has a 540 rc motor in it , think these was 800rpm , it’s now 28000rpm

Few more tool pics

Enjoyed the tool photos, guys.

Open Range-19 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:18 pm Enjoyed the tool photos, guys.

Very nice Paul!

Very nice tools, Paul, I enjoyed the show.

Here's an old Stanley hammer I bought last weekend.
Someone drove two nails into a perfectly .............

Anyway, she's a two pound beauty.

I’ve been meaning to post this for old tools aficionados for some time, don’t know why it’s taken me so long. Some if y’all may already know of this place or even visited it. Avfewvyeaescago I had the opportunity to visit the remarkable Davistown Museum in Liberty, Maine, which is an antique tool museum.

And even more interesting (to me anyway) is the Liberty Tool Company which is located across the street from the museum. That’s where you can buy all the stuff that didn’t make the cut to get into the museum. They’re constantly on the hunt for tools for the museum but most of what is bought winds up in the store where it us sold to raise money to support the museum. If you’re in Maine, go!

Ken

All these pictures were taken in the Liberty Tool store - just on the first floor! There’s more upstairs, and there are several more floors!

Whoa Nellie, neat place to rummage around in. Wonderful old building, too.

Ken, I have seen that place on TV. Would love to visit it!

I dragged my wife in there and several hours later she dragged me out! I could go back and spend another couple of days there. There are a couple of other interesting places in Liberty also. I picked up a couple of old pocket knives at another place while there.

Here’s a picture of the Davistown Museum (where the best old tools are - across the street from the tool store). And the old Liberty Post Office next door to the store.

Ken

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:17 pm British Standard Whitworth
Whitworth and BSF spanner markings refer to the bolt diameter, rather than the distance across the flats of the hexagon (A/F) as in other standards. Confusion can arise because each Whitworth hexagon was originally one size larger than that of the corresponding BSF fastener. This leads to instances where for example, a spanner marked 7⁄16 BSF is the same size as one marked 3⁄8 W. In both cases the spanner jaw width of 0.710 in, the width across the hexagon flat, is the same.

Thanks Unk! You are a practically a human "Google Machine"

I bought this pick head with a bunch of other tools from a collection that had a lot of Railroad tools in it. I am not sure if this one can be identified as a R.R. tool or not, I need to some research on it. A few other pieces mauls and sledgehammers have the "fish" looking stamping on them as well.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:40 pm

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:17 pm British Standard Whitworth
Whitworth and BSF spanner markings refer to the bolt diameter, rather than the distance across the flats of the hexagon (A/F) as in other standards. Confusion can arise because each Whitworth hexagon was originally one size larger than that of the corresponding BSF fastener. This leads to instances where for example, a spanner marked 7⁄16 BSF is the same size as one marked 3⁄8 W. In both cases the spanner jaw width of 0.710 in, the width across the hexagon flat, is the same.

Thanks Unk! You are a practically a human "Google Machine"

Nah - I restored a couple of MGBs many years ago. I still have some Whitworth wrenches laying around here somewhere. They used to give them away as door prizes at the British Car shows I attended.

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:46 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:40 pm

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:17 pm British Standard Whitworth

Nah - I restored a couple of MGBs many years ago. I still have some Whitworth wrenches laying around here somewhere. They used to give them away as door prizes at the British Car shows I attended.

Sweet, That makes even more "The Man"

Here are some "unknowns" picked up and cleaned up and waiting to be identified...

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:24 pm

Unk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 3:46 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:40 pm

Nah - I restored a couple of MGBs many years ago. I still have some Whitworth wrenches laying around here somewhere. They used to give them away as door prizes at the British Car shows I attended.

Sweet, That makes even more "The Man"

Here are some "unknowns" picked up and cleaned up and waiting to be identified...

The larger of the two items pictured appears to be a 'handsaw set'. I have used them, or at least one similar, when I did sharpening work for some contractors that needed to have handsaws sharpened.

Louisville.Boy1947 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:40 am [quote=GSPTOPDOG post_id=1085722 time=1687814643 user_id=33605

OK, thanks!

Louisville.Boy1947 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:40 am The larger of the two items pictured appears to be a 'handsaw set'.

Yes, the larger item is a saw set. I recently bought a Spear & Jackson saw set. I used it to set the teeth on my saws (2 crosscuts and 1 backsaw), and then sharpened them with triangle files as well. The saws all cut like new now.

The smaller item looks like some kind of leather hole punch?

My latest plane restoration. This is a Stanley No. 112 scraper plane, made sometime between 1885 and 1944. I think this one is probably pre-WWI All the japanning was missing, and it had a very thick layer of rust on the sole. It soaked overnight in Evap-o-rust, then a lot of wire brushes in the Dremel. The rosewood handles were scraped and lightly sanded, then a couple of coats of shellac applied. The brass was polished and the iron sharpened. Then everything got a coat of Johnson's paste wax.