Let's see your vintage drill bit indices

[Davefr]

Here are a few:

 

[PT Doc]

Very nice.

 

[RivennHewn]

Shop made for my brace bits.

 

[7echo]

Those are really sweet.

 

[BlackjackNA]

WOW... totally awesome..... (My specific tool weakness revolves around drill bits)

 

[jeffmoss26]

RivennHewn, that is awesome!!

 

[Steevo]

I have that same Cleveland Twist Drill one, only in fractional sizes:

 

[RivennHewn]

Dave,

I've never seen the box that the Cleveland ones come with. It'd be great to post a pic of that too.

Here's a cheap aluminum one I sold.

Thanks Jeff

 

[Outlawmws]

I can Play; I'll skip the metal boxes with the tilting tray, since those aren't that interesting, even when vintage.

A Morse wood index with a paper label:

A Wood Cleveland, I havent had time to do any cleanup on this one. It has a metal disc on the end to pick one of 7 drill bits:

Another Morse, Diecast, in a triangular shape:

And a plain unmarked wood index.

 

[WWIIjeep]

Dave,

I've never seen the box that the Cleveland ones come with. It'd be great to post a pic of that too.

Here's my fractional size Cleveland box, in nowhere near as nice condition as Dave's number size box appears to be:






And I've got a full set--fractional, number, letter--of the Morse triangle like Outlaw's, except the number index is broken. The nice thing about those is that they can fold flat for storage, or open in triangle for bench use.

 

[Davefr]

Dave,

I've never seen the box that the Cleveland ones come with. It'd be great to post a pic of that too.

Thanks Jeff

Here it is:

 

[RivennHewn]

Dang it, now I need to find the box for mine!

Something I didn't even know existed just became a necessity.

 

[jakemac]

Alright, here's what I've got.

Craftsman - fractional
Picador (England) - fractional
unknown (USA) - fractional
Craftsman - numbered
Radnor - fractional (2 pics)

 

[Provincial]

A fractional version of the Cleveland drill stand.

 

[Outlawmws]

I forgot the one that is holding my extra long brad pt bits:

Generic, no MFG. listed.

 

[SCscoutguy]

Here is one made by AJAX I picked up a few years back. I had forgotten about it until now.

 

[sasquatch12]

Sweet collections everyone!! Have boxes of Amerian made drills, but have never found an index other than Huots boxes.( I still buy them even if empty.)
You all have posted some great indexes here!!

 

[nine4gmc]

Those are all awesome!!

 

[EdT]

Here are a couple of mine

 

[humber2]

I can Play; I'll skip the metal boxes with the tilting tray, since those aren't that interesting, even when vintage.


And a plain unmarked wood index.

I've got that one from Starrett holding a pin punch set.

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, love the wood one EdT!

 

[nine4gmc]

Edt, you win with that wooden one. I have the same set of Huot metal ones like yours but that wooden one blows them all out the water...

 

[-Brent-]

Mine.



The overflow is in an older Huot 3 drawer. Not sure of the age.

 

[Tarnished]

EdT:, now that is drill index.....
What is behind the hinged door, and in the drawers? More pics please.

Would love to find a Cleveland set, in or out of the case!

Here are a couple I have picked up, and a round one I have cleaned up, but don't have pics of. Any one know the maker?

 

[abk241]

Very nice.

Indeed

 

[Alan Douglas]

I bought this at a yard sale forty years ago (and the Huot at another yard sale more recently).

 

[sasquatch12]

Wow, love that cabinet, that has to be very rare!!

 

[merbie]

Mines an old brass British branded index I picked up for a couple quid

Merb

 

[pendragon1998]

I bought this at a yard sale forty years ago (and the Huot at another yard sale more recently).

That is gorgeous.

 

[lowbucktruck]

I have a neat vintage cast Standard Tool index to share. Some really neat drill indexes here guys!

 

[Alan Douglas]

A couple of shots of the right side of that cabinet. I don't recall for certain if the Starrett drill plate came with it but I think it did. I got some arch punches and other tools there too, a run-down house in E. Freetown, not far from New Bedford.

 

[sasquatch12]

Thanks for these pics Alan, great find!!

 

[Gregsayers2000]

Wow, if you have enough drills to make good use of those you have enough drills to last a few decades of heavy use! We had a set of those at the first shop I worked at out of HS.

 

[thieltech]

add more

 

[zeet]

Here's an index for number drills. Clever design, awkward to use, but I use it just the same...

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[Tarnished]

I've been collecting these for a few years now. Thought I would add few more to the list.


Cleveland letter

Cleveland numbered

Morse letter

Ajax fractional

Standard numbered

Unknown fractional

Huot fractional & Lawson numbered

 

[paulm12]

just saw this thread.

First of all, there are some awesome looking indexes (indices??) here. My simple contributions:

1. a CM index, some surface rust.
2. A small HUOT index. I repainted just to try, it had similar surface rust to the CM.

I think I need to think bigger now.

 

[padroo]

I never realized there were some cool old drill indexes. My grandfather was a blacksmith in Pa. And I don't remember what he had. Everything in his shop was old.

 

[Rileysan]

I have only one picture of my drill bit drawer in my toolbox, but it does show one nice older Index by Century.

Brian

 

[69supercj]

I've yet to come across one of these in all of my auction and flea market visits but I'll be looking for sure. One question, why were some bits sized fractionally and some with a number? My initial thought was standard vs. metric.