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I have a modern Palmgren 6" DP vise, bought from McMaster about 10 years ago. Works great, quite accurate for DP work. I also have an old Craftsman 2" DP vise. Neither have slots to bolt them to the table. This is so you can put it on its side, which is occasionally important. I use homemade...

Sounds like your son is going to get a good initiation project with you!

Here's some chisels and gouges. The last is from a lineman tool company, looks like it'd be just the thing for cutting flats onto utility poles at height. No separate handle to fall off, hit it with a steel hammer if that's what you've got, etc.

Very nice. I saw one similar to that at an estate sale but it was really and truly frozen solid beyond practical restoration. Have fun!

Here's the bottom of the rabbet plane. Looks to me like it was meant to be a rabbet. I'd guess one workman on one job needed a spring line for some tapered step. Here's a bonus shot of a couple A. Mathieson and Son and an Ohio Tool plow planes. I had to bid on 3 of them to get a range of irons...

FYI this isn't for lack of vises - I have at least a dozen.

2-1/4" wide iron. The plane has a narrow strip of boxing and also a spring line. Maybe they used that plane for the tapered edge on paneling and wanted a reference line for consistency. The Randall and Cook cost $8 at a local auction with online bidding - I bid on it sight unseen, not knowing...

Here's a couple of my unusual planes. The first is by Metallic Plane Co, Auburn NY, and is a great alternative to a #5. The adjustable mouth is great. The second is my oldest known tool - Randall and Cook, Auburn NY Rabbet Plane. As I recall the book dates this to 1835-39. Excellent condition!

Exactly. Actually this could occasionally be useful as a multi-position small parts vise held in a larger vise. Once I used this type of setup to make a bracket that needed two bends near each other. In the field of course you'd have to make do with it just sitting on the ground or tailgate.

I can't be the first person to think of this... Most monkey wrenches have a nice big square-ish thread, a nice big set of jaws, and a tiny little thumb nut to tighten it. This works for most routine wrench work. But what if a workman needed a vise but didn't have one along? All it needs is one...

Underhill reminds me of a Hobbit family name in Tolkien's classic works... Great hatchets, I've brought them home too.

Check ebay? Is it Whitworth? Even if you have to get a hex bolt and file the top to fit the counter sink and hacksaw a slot in the top. I got a couple Whitworth bolts on ebay once.

Leave as is and sell it. Or you could give it a 20 minute wipe down and then sell it.

I have a few crow bars tucked away various places but only for utilitarian purposes... No idea how to identify them apart from a makers mark.

Grub hoe. Looks hand forged. Nowadays they generally come with a pick on the other side, a very important tool for dirt work and gardening.

I've used Olfa rotary cutters for sewing for many years and they work very well. I work mostly with heavy pack cloth.

I find a surface gauge very helpful for layout on occasion, as you can easily and accurately scribe a line on, around, or inside something that may otherwise be hard to accomplish. The dial indicator is also useful on it, but that can't scribe. I wouldn't be without one in a fab shop.

Makes sense so long as the rpm vs. weight of jig doesn't have a chance of spinning or wiggling or lifting - easily attainable with a heavy vise or jig. I suppose they would locate the holes using jigs with drill bushings for the first bit in the sequence, or spot drill on the milling machine...

Looks like a tool for castrating roosters. Sorry - just got some butchering done. Cool tool, never seen one.

Oh man, I've had jobs that could have used the 3 or 4 gang production tables. Great machines. I just wish - having never used one - that they would have mounting slots or holes for fixtures.