Very nice Grizz. Looks like your example has my 7 bits plus the saw, gouge, and reamer. [I may have all these ends on other styles of combination handles though
Cleaned, waxed and off the the Curio Cabinet. I will keep my eyes open at estate sales, now that I know what I'm looking for.
For reference, it is marked: "THE G. L. HOLT CO HFD. CT. PAT'D"
Grizz
] I'm keeping my eyes open and maybe I'll find a more complete modelSome manufacturers sold different levels of kits, yours may have only come with 7. Ss you look at the MF examples here, a different number of bits per handle.
Does that unit have a patent date on it? Should be JAN 14, 1868. And is it quite large? It looks like the type we have seen with many different markings, including Millers Falls, Springfield, RED DEVIL, and others, believed to have been made, at least at first, by Millers Falls, and then by many others or perhaps for many others. See last of page 4 into page 5. Yours is the first BHM, if memory serves.
That's a wonderful story and a wonderful keepsake!
Looking at the add from miller falls someone else posted in post #202, it seems almost an exact match of the miller falls #5 tool which does include what appears to be a file and even a similar saw. Mine seems to contain a countersink instead of the reamer though. Mine is marked, "THE BRIDGEPORT HDWE MFG CORP." but no date I see. I'll try to post better pictures and check with a magnifying glass after I get it cleaned up.
Like you, I've only ever seen the fishing reel looking type. That's cool.
both came from Portland too. You mean you don’t hang on every post I make? At least you got the third bit. Did you try Search This Thread for GP? I even spelled it out for future searchers.
Nice find, Tom, and I agree.
My first thought as well! Flared, was the word I had in mind, though. I wonder if they did that on purpose with the intent of improving the grip. If not, I wonder if it would flare more evenly if pounded on give the original shape and hollow cavity. The difference between Beemer's and RTM's is stark.
The forum descends in time from page 1 to page n. When a thread (topic) has new activity, such as your post #227 in this one, it goes to the top of page 1. When another thread has newer activity, it bumps it. And so on. That pushes threads down the page, eventually to page 2, and buries them fairly fast thereafter. Until someone replies, which bumps it to page 1 again.
Definitely a hollow handle for the Lugzonian!I wouldn't be so quick to give it away! It appears to be an example of a rare special "Handikit" model intended for dual-use as a puppet!
If by "into" you mean I collect them, I am fond of them, I am interested enough to devote some research into identifying them, and I started a thread dedicated to them so that others with a similar interest can share and collectively pursue them in a more organized way, yes. (If you're still trying to figure this place out, that's what we do around here on the GJ Vintage board. Threads are fun, but they also accrue an encyclopedic quality over time, that in many cases exceeds the depth and breadth of any and all other references on the internet or in print on a particular topic.) They are not the sole object of the "passion" RJ refers to, and maybe not even Top 10 in terms of types of vintage or antique tools I collect, though. "The Lugzsonian" is just a funny name riffing on the much shorter nickname version of my username that a friend gave to the basement of my house, where my collection resides, and it stuck. You can take a quick virtual 'walking tour' within the first 5 or 6 pages here.
It has utility! Do you have any annoying neighborhood kids? You could shove the tack claw and a screwdriver bit into the chuck to give the clown legs and drill the gimlet and awl into the body for arms and then you would have a Consumer Products Safety Commission disapproved toy with which to test Darwin's theory on survival of the fittest! Science!!
I know we've had this not mutually exclusive discussion before, but just to re-emphasize, this hobby has its strict utilitarians, and I'm clearly not one of them, but it also has plenty of shade tree mechanics who also like collecting vintage tools they have no intention of using.
Somebody else. I already have a Buell Bros. If I ran into it in the wild, I would probably snag it just for novelty grins, but I'm not interested enough to have it shipped. Thanks for thinking of me, though.
Snerk.
That's not the only thing I pulled, but RJ's leg was resistant. As was Old Radar's. And yours. Apparently that post needed a well-placed tongue-in-cheel and devil emoji.
