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Don't know how many people on here are interested in old knives but I have been a collector of them for a bit over 60 years now. Am always on the lookout for them and several of my friends look for me as well. The other day I went to breakfast(a biweekly thing called the,"Geezer Gathering")and...

Haven't been getting out much lately due to some health issues with myself and my wife but Saturday I stopped in to see a friend of mine at his antique shop. Found these three items: First up is a pair of Fulton pruning shears someone had listed as tin snips.While you could probably use them for...

Stopped at my favorite antique shop today and came up with these little gems. First up is a Plomb WF-7 breaker bar.I haven't measured it but I think it is 9/32nds drive. $2.50. Next is a nice little 4 inch Craftsman adjustable wrench;$1.00 Then three different glass cutters: One is by Red Devil...

Found this little gem at a garage sale on Saturday for $5.Marked,"Woldert Grocery Co. Tyler Texas & Chicago" on the handle.Body is marked,"Squirrel Catcher Patented May 13 1913". Clamps to a table either horizontally or vertically and requires pressure on the jaw to actuate the ratcheting...

While cruising through the antique shop today looking for knives I came across these two little gems. Called a "Lil Sharpy" one is a 2" by 5/8ths inch single cut file mounted on a bent rod with a handle on one end and a knob on the other. Designed to file into areas not normally accessible it...

Not your average "tool" and if it is inappropriate for this forum please remove it. While I was downtown yesterday picking up a couple of watch batteries I wandered into one of the four antique shops we have in the downtown area. I recently scored a nice S&K machinists' tool box here and wasn't...

While visiting a local antique shop this afternoon I came across an old machinists' tool box(5 drawer plus the top)with an S-K plaque attached to the front and remnants of the old S-K green paint. It is actually in very good shape and looks like it could have been made by Kennedy(the old square...

Having been a collector of knives ever since the age of 10(a long time ago!)I thought I might post some pictures of the ones I have accumulated over the years. In the interest of keeping it on topic,I will try and post only those that are actually multi-purpose tools. Hope you enjoy them and...

Picked these up today at my friendly antique store.Last summer I found myself in need of a flaring tool and the one I normally use had the most important part MIA so I had to borrow one. Today I found a really nice and unusual(to me anyway) one. Made by the Imperial Brass Co of Chicago...

Not sure if this qualifies as a vintage tool but it sure is unusual. I bought it today at a yard sale for a dollar. The ultimate lazy man's wrench.Push the rocker switch located on the top of the handle and the electric motor(powered by 2 AAA batteries located in the handle)zips the jaw open and...

Just bought a 2 drawer Snap-On tool box and can't remove the drawers. Well actually just one drawer. The other one was removed forcibly;mangling the slide on one side. I can see that there is a spring that lays against a detent but cannot depress the spring.It is on the back of the slide and has...

Went back to the estate sale to pick up a pocket knife I should have bought yesterday and it had been sold. To sooth my grief I decided to take another look around. Came upon a battery charger(my old one went south awhile back)for $7.50 still in the original box.Didn't look like it had ever been...

Went to an estate sale today and found a bunch of knives(my addiction), a nice Kennedy 4 tray pentroof box(smaller than standard),these two ratchets,and a most unusual tool. Two Snap-On R-70 1/4 inch drive female ratchets with one having a 7/16ths open end welded to it and the other a 13/32nds...

Having been a collector of knives since I bought my first one at the age of 10(which I still have but it went MIA for 23 years;a story for another time) I have always considered them just another tool. I like to find unusual examples such as knives that don't look like knives or ones with...

After posting a picture in the Williams thread of a 9/32nds drive ratchet,I got curious to see if any of the other items I had purchased at this particular estate sale were odd. And I came up with this piece: It is a ratchet that is designed to be put into an extension on either end and is...

Will post a pic later but for now: A friend of mine presented me with an open end wrench today with some unusual markings.On one side it is marked,"SPEARPOINT" and one end is 7/16W which I assume is Whitworth and the other marked 3/8W with a small(B7)unsder the 7/16. The opposite side is...

Went back to the estate sale this morning to see if I could find the missing socket and handle for the tiny tool kit I bought yesterday but to no avail.The two other tool sets were still there but the 50% didn't go into effect until noon and it was only ten o'clock. So I bought them at full...

Picked this up at an estate sale today.Missing a handle(Allen wrench will work) and one socket(have to go back tomorrow to look for it)but I couldn't pass it up for $5.Box is lithographed tin and in decent shape. Background is 1"(25.4mm) squares.

Went to the flea market across the street from my home today and found this.Went to turn it upside down to see what was on the bottom and a cascade of rancid lard oil gushed out all over me and a box of stuff at my feet. Spent the next hour cleaning everything up(the vendor is a good friend)...

Coming back from a pinstriping job today I happened across a(what else?) yard sale that was almost exclusively guy stuff.That's about as rare as dentures for a rooster nowadays. Anyway in an old drawer was this pile of wrenches the smallest of which was a 9/16ths and the biggest a whopping 2...