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Bones was an old customer of ours (Harry J. Epstein Co.). He was an ex-professional wrestler turned junk man and a collector of pretty much everything. He would often come in the store dressed in red, white and blue overalls and talk to Harry about his latest find. In his house he had an entire...

Just got in new merchandise from SK. Here's a pic of the socket set. I'll bring my good camera tomorrow and take some close-up shots of the chrome. Jori http://store.harryepstein.com/cp/14drsets/91844.html

I visited the Wilde Tool Co. yesterday, and first things first. Here's some giant pictures. Here's some more pic links. Didn't want to overload anybody. http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/jsackin/buttons.jpg http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/jsackin/machinewithyellowgate.jpg...

http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/jsackin/wildemodratchet.jpg http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/jsackin/wildemoddedratchet2.jpg http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/jsackin/wildemoddedratchet3.jpg I love your guys modded ratchet posts and it inspired me to send off a USA...

We’ve heard from a reliable source that the US government is now only requiring tool kits to be 51% US made. Tool kits are usually placed in military vehicles: tanks, jeeps, etc. Before, it was 100%, unless you couldn’t find it made here. There is a lot of gray area, as we just heard about this...

I went to pull an order last week and saw that Klein had changed their item# to their US made T-handles. Turns out they are now manufactured in Slovenia and have discontinued the older US made style. The newer ones remind me of the Facom/SK T-handles, and actually look pretty nice, but it's...

http://www.harryepstein.com/dailydispatch/2011/02/snap-on-1970-tool-catalog/ This is a 1970 Snap-On tool catalog .pdf, 50th Anniversary edition, scanned completely front to back. 156 pages of vintage Snap-On goodness. Lots of line drawn tools bathed in fields of bright red. You can read it...

Well, it's a slow snow day here at Epsteins, so I decided to scan in some of the old tool catalogs we have lying around. The first one is a 1967 Bonney Catalog. Herbrand and Utica are on the way. You can choose to either read them online or download the pdf file. Reading on line is kind of...

Made two videos for Epsteins recently. Thought you guys might enjoy them. http://store.harryepstein.com/about/

We got this pallet in this morning full of NOS Bonney. These come in the original boxes, some of them are still wrapped in the original plastic. Most of these are sets but there is a good amount of open stock. We haven't dug into it yet, but the quantities are pretty small. 1 or 2 of each...

What do you guys think of Catspaw? Any good? Jori Harry J. Epstein Co.

Just got this in this afternoon. Thought I would give you guys a heads up. I haven't put anything online yet, but it should all go up tomorrow afternoon. This deal is 18 pallets of mostly Grayvik merchandise: lots of different types of hammers, pry bars and nail pullers. There is some Vaughn...

This is an odd little deal. I don't think we're even going to list this stuff on the website, but I thought you guys would like to see it. There was a watchmaker, 97 years old, that decided to retire recently. We bought a lot of the tools he had in his shop. There's probably more to come...

This is a buyback deal, so I don't want anyone worrying about the future of either of these companies. Very small quantities. Check'em out. Just posted today. Jori http://store.harryepstein.com/c/Proto.html http://store.harryepstein.com/c/Knipex.html

Just heard a reliable rumor that the deal went through. Ideal bought SK. Jori http://store.harryepstein.com

Just got in a new SK deal! We are still sorting through everything we got, so we won't have prices and everything up on the website until Monday or Tuesday. I enjoy looking at all the deals that you guys buy everyday, I thought I'd share this one with you. The bulk of this deal is giant...

We have a decent amount of these things and I have no idea what they are called. Does anyone have a good name for one of these? Jori http://store.harryepstein.com

Just heard a pretty reliable rumor that SK is going to declare bankruptcy in the next few days. They will then be bought by a company called Ideal. Ideal has also bought Western Forge and Pratt and Read in the last year. That will make them a big player among USA manufacturers. Jori...

Here are some catalog covers from our private collection. Jori http://store.harryepstein.com

We recently bought a deal of adjustable wrenches. Some of them turned out to be Wrench Force. Up until I read through the forums I had no idea that this was a snap-on brand. I searched for more of their tools on-line, but all I got was bicycle companies selling bike tools. Has any one ever...