Recent content by Nevadablue

I sent this to my son today… My wife said she is going to paint the garage door to look like that.

I hope you bought them all. The first one is just plain bizarre.

Two of my Dad’s knives. His Navy Kabar from WWII and his ‘fishing knife’ from the ‘60s I think.

My Dad was a Machinists Mate on a minesweeper in WWII. He didn’t talk a lot about the tools, and I’m sure they were specific to what they had to work on. He did say they had a small machine shop onboard and that the machinist could “make anything”. One story was that they dropped a wrench, the...

I found this little guy in some old tools today. (In my garage) I have no idea where it came from. It needs a good cleanup, I did oil it and wipe it off. Any way to tell how old it is? It is becoming part of my little indoor workbench, it will be a compliment to the rest of the toys.

I think it was made to encourage conversation. A “conversation piece”. Put it in a place of pride and wait… what fun, watching for more ideas!

I got the ebay wooden handled collection shown above finally. The post office was hiding it. I cleaned up the little screwdriver to see if had a maker’s mark. Looks like an HP Tool. Neat little thing. The maker’s mark was very faint, I almost missed it.

These are in my to-do pile. And this one is just plain cool:

So, last year, with agreement of the house manager :love: I spent one of the stimulus checks stimulating my tool collection. I decided to get a pile of all sorts of hand tools (vintage ones if possible) for my grandsons. The plan is to give this failing carcass something to do when I can’t do...

Thanks Don. Remind me to tell you about my 42 Ford (GPW)

I just snagged this batch of toys from ebay. Thirteen bucks! (Pic from ebay) Oh, does anyone know that that thing is… the 5th from the top, with the square part on the end. That triggered me going out to the shop and finding my grandfather’s perfect handle copy screwdriver that I have been...

This little roll is currently holding a set of tools I collected. I’m not sure the vintage of the roll. The handle for the set was broken and I repaired it. I believe the larger pliers may be a sewing machine belt pliers.