Packard V8
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Found - The Lost Real American Steel - ALL GONE!
At a local garage sale Friday, I came across the remnants of a second-hand store which was in business here from 1917 to 1975. I had visited the store in the latter days and the old man was more interested in hoarding junk than selling it. There was one narrow aisle through the mountains of junk. He had everything, but by then couldn't find a particular item even though we both knew he had it somewhere.
Thirty-six years later, in the tons of tools being sold by his heirs, I found these genuine WWII Army-issue cold chisel sets.
There are three types of chisels: flat, cove and cape. These are man-sized chisels 8" long and three of them weigh 3#.
These were forged by Delaware C, then came out of the Pasco Army Depot in the WWII surplus sales, were stored in the original shipping crates in Franklin Second-Hand Store on Main Street in Spokane, WA and I got them from the sons and grandsons of the father/son who ran the store. That's a pretty complete provenance.
I bought them because they were calling out for good homes. I've never seen more honestly made tools and NOS Army issue to boot. Trust me, you want a set of these as working tools and as conversation pieces. Your set of three will arrive coated with the original Army cosmoline. Really sticky stuff, but it did the job - no rust on these seventy-year-old chisels.
If you appreciate the good stuff like I do, send $15 to my PayPal - [email protected] or a check to Jack Vines, 3227 E 28th Avenue, Spokane, WA 99223-5701 and I'll put them in a USPS Flat Rate Box. (I just checked and two sets will fit, so if you want two sets, it's $25 shipped.) Made-in-USA chisels of this size and quality retail for $10-12 and up, so six for $25 is a steal on steel. AND all seventeen sets sold in two days!
jack vines
At a local garage sale Friday, I came across the remnants of a second-hand store which was in business here from 1917 to 1975. I had visited the store in the latter days and the old man was more interested in hoarding junk than selling it. There was one narrow aisle through the mountains of junk. He had everything, but by then couldn't find a particular item even though we both knew he had it somewhere.
Thirty-six years later, in the tons of tools being sold by his heirs, I found these genuine WWII Army-issue cold chisel sets.
There are three types of chisels: flat, cove and cape. These are man-sized chisels 8" long and three of them weigh 3#.
These were forged by Delaware C, then came out of the Pasco Army Depot in the WWII surplus sales, were stored in the original shipping crates in Franklin Second-Hand Store on Main Street in Spokane, WA and I got them from the sons and grandsons of the father/son who ran the store. That's a pretty complete provenance.
I bought them because they were calling out for good homes. I've never seen more honestly made tools and NOS Army issue to boot. Trust me, you want a set of these as working tools and as conversation pieces. Your set of three will arrive coated with the original Army cosmoline. Really sticky stuff, but it did the job - no rust on these seventy-year-old chisels.
If you appreciate the good stuff like I do, send $15 to my PayPal - [email protected] or a check to Jack Vines, 3227 E 28th Avenue, Spokane, WA 99223-5701 and I'll put them in a USPS Flat Rate Box. (I just checked and two sets will fit, so if you want two sets, it's $25 shipped.) Made-in-USA chisels of this size and quality retail for $10-12 and up, so six for $25 is a steal on steel. AND all seventeen sets sold in two days!
jack vines
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