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Yeah, that size of head, plus the shortish handle, suggests gutter adze to me — but happy to be corrected.

I have a full set (vols. 1-8) of the 1920s edition of the Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide. The set has an owner's signature inside the front cover plus an inscription in the same hand: "U.S.S. Whipple #217". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Whipple_(DD-217) Commissioned in April 1920 and...

Growing up in the Boston area in the 1950s, we had a 1920s house with a slate roof and wood gutters. I recall seeing a foot-long piece of wooden gutter in the basement cubby of leftover construction lumber. Given the era when the house was built, its wood gutters were surely machine made as...

The fact that it was found with a 24-inch handle points to it being used close up on the work piece — not a length that would be convenient for digging up roots and breaking up soil. I agree that the eye looks hand-forged. My understanding is that the preferred wood for gutters was elm, being...

Could be a grub hoe although they usually have straight-across blade edges, at least when new. To me the curvature of the blade edge suggests that it's a gutter adze. These were used to chop out a round-bottom channel in a small log for use as a gutter on a house, or any other channel for water...

True, but that was before quartz movements and electronic chimes. Longcase clocks with movements that use winding arbors (keyed or weight driven) will hold value, but the cost of maintaining them in working order usually dooms them in the end. As I noted above, cordless tools are something to...

Don, I keep one of those in a kitchen drawer for opening stubborn jars of jam and marmalade and anything else of that size. After measuring a few jar lids, I chose the 9-inch model (1.75 to 3 inch opening).

Museums generally treat old tools very badly: they leave them covered in rust ("patina worship," I call it), destroying the metal. When did you last see a historical society display of tools that wasn't a study in rusty metal and dry, shrunken wood? In a poorly lit (or unlit) display case...

"Let's go to the Dake," said Scoutcrafter....

Another feature is the arrow showing the proper way to turn the handle. You don't see that on older models, presumably dating from when "everybody knew" how to turn an adjustable wrench. (The splayed jaws on many? most? auto wrenches show that not everybody knew how to use them.) As an...

Rancher: I know the main multi-bit Picquics are available in the US, from Amazin' as well as other stores. What I was referring to was a report ("I saw it online...") that The Pic — that little pocketable one with just a couple bits — was an exclusive made for Canadian Tire. Now perhaps that...

Honkin' big pipe wrench, plus a cheater tube perhaps.

Picquics are good. My wife's Canadian, so we make family trips there, and I always stop in at Canadian Tire. On one trip, I got one of all their models! Including the little cutie pocketable "The Pic." So with those and the 6-in-1s, I'm outfitted. From what I understand — Canadians please...

Asked this earlier over in the Vintage tool discussion because the two items are out of production. But there was only a suggestion of trying over here because the Knipex-knowledgable are more numerous.... Below are two water pump pliers, both about 9-1/2 inches long. One is clearly a Knipex...

Thanks — I wondered which forum to use and chose Vintage because they're old(er) and not in production any more. Do I just repost in the General board, or is there a way to shift the post from here over to there? (Oh, and the pedant in me adds that -en is a legit German plural.)

Got a question for those who are knowledgable about Knipexes (Knipexen?). Below are two water pump pliers, one is clearly a Knipex rebadged as Craftsman, the other appears older and simpler. There's no maker name on the latter but the COO is marked Germany, and the design of the jaws strongly...

If I read you right, you're saying the impacting grass bits scrub the Fluid Film off the under-deck?

My use is much more small-scale — individual hand tools mostly — with an aerosol can of FF. I keep a rag that gets sprayed now and then with FF in an old peanut butter jar with a lid. When needed, tools get wiped down with the rag and stay rust-free. I've also noticed that FF offers some...

For some time now I have been convinced that, just like National Geographics, every slip-joint plier ever made by any company is still in existence. Change my mind....

Shop & tools are in the basement (in Wisconsin). I run a dehumidifier down there all summer, turning it off when furnace season comes on. For keeping rust off tools, I have an old peanut butter jar & lid with a rag in it that gets spritzed from time to time with Fluid Film. I pull out the rag...