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Aw shucks, I got all excited to see Krueger pliers, and they turned out to be plain old Kraeuter pliers…(kicks stone in dust).

After I put the 76ers back together, I was struck, despite being a different model, by their resemblence in construction details and grip pattern to a pair of Boker USA slipjoints. Oh, damn, I’ve got the pivot screw in backwards.

You guys are killing it. Saturday morning, MrsLS & I decided to check out the 30th annual Great South Side Sale in Bethlehem PA. It’s a fundraiser supplied by donations from Lehigh University students. I was hoping to spot some 2-drawer steel file cabinets for a project I’m engaged in, but...

Not a 4826?

That bitbrace is low on my priorities right now. Literally, I have $3 pants I’ve given more attention recently.

Another surprise when I opened up two Stanley No199 utility knives. Neither is identical to either type of Bonney, though they all share some characteristics. From comparing elements, I say the order of development is

I can only help if you admit that they are 850-7, not 950-7. As for the adjustable… you’re looking for the patent? Maybe this.

Cleaning up small sidecutting slipjoints. Hidden “76” stamped near pivot, Barcalo-ish depressed diamonds grips. No other markings.

Yeah, the first time I watched it, that location suspended my suspension of disbelief. There are craggy ridges here and there where trees have a hard time concealing the underlying geology, but I had never seen such a mountain in PA. Now, nearly a half-century later, I still haven’t. I’ve driven...

I added a fourth and fifth No199 utility knife to my collection recently, and didn’t expect any surprises, but I got one when I opened them up to remove the dull and rusted blades. Inside, one had a single Stanley No1992 and several General No852, the other had several Millers Falls No3325. The...

I had the precise location figured on May22, but it seemed a little intrusive to post it until this last convo. Also, my hickpride is a little stung at the assertion that NJ “can outhick the hickest.” It’s hick enough, I’m sure, but though I have spent the majority of my adulthood among the...

I played with my father’s childhood toolish toys, and am just old enough to have had new toys made of steel with points and sharp edges. Among my younger family members, I witnessed the progression from wood&steel to hard plastic to soft plastic to foam.

Well, it’s a nice kit. I sometimes see empty steel boxes. And I think I had a similar kit as a child, eventually breaking or losing all the components. Unusual to find so much still together!

“Puzzlingly”? …because design and execution are separate disciplines?

June snuck up on me! I notice NRPS is advertising the Food Truck Festival (where Dale and Keith have displayed the huge FSP collection in the past) Saturday June 6. I think the collection will not be there this year. Currently, there’s a 50% chance of rain, a MAAM WWII Weekend at Reading (with...

I have a bunch of those sockets and have not figured who made them or when. They don’t seem as old as the open-at-both-ends type.

MrsLS & I set up two spots in the field at Jake’s Flea this morning to sell for a friend. She did most of the selling, and netted $85. If we could have jammed all the stuff in one vehicle, we woud have netted $15 more. Ah well. I scouted the offerings of our neighboring vendors and for a total...

Yeah, I had one that I restored from a yard sale wreck. This would be easy by comparison. It was solid oak (this top is veneered), and some PO had thought it would be best to drill holes and cut notches through the top to anchor some belt-driven machine to it and then leave it in a damp garage...

Yay! Now you can rekindle the search for a straight bit box. Or photoshop images of the one you have, deleting “Phillips.”

Trip to Jake’s Flea yielded two Bonney cutters and a Utica 10” slipjoint pliers, $1ea. A TOO yardsale yielded a 48”l 29”h 15”d steel shelf base for $3 that I will use under a workbench I am devising. Two leftbehinds at the yardsale: Ats&Crafts style oak desk in need of some repair ($5!). I used...