Anyone Have Info On Globemaster Tools?

[David Jackson]

Thanks so much for responding to my post of years ago. The blue of your metal box seems much nicer than the kind of dull gray of mine, but I am a little color blind so maybe there is some pretty blue under the grime and rust of my box.

As for missing stuff, from time to time I get a bee in my bonnet and look for missing parts of this set. It just sits, unused any more, in my little spare toolbox, a kind of "tool box queen" if you can imagine such a low value "tool box queen". Sentimental value to an octogenarian (me) is all it has. As far as missing stuff goes, I did find a Japan marked ratchet and short extension a few years ago; and recently a Japan marked flex handle. I have to check the sockets. I know I am missing the deep 1/2" hex and may be missing a short socket, will have to check the size today. Its one of the larger ones, could be the 13/16" hex.

Recently I found, quite by accident, some Taiwan marked bits, both a ratchet and extension and a flex handle. They have the same numbers as the Japan marked bits I found but don't fit my set as they are Chinese rather than Japanese. They may be later. Others have remarked that Globemaster sold tools from various countries and there may be ratchets etc. from Germany, Italy, India etc. I would not be at all surprised to learn that your box might have had the Chinese tools as the box is not marked "Japan".

 

[four.cycle]

Went up to Mom's yesterday for lunch and found this little beauty laying in the garage:

Globemaster 6-inch pipe wrench

marked "MCC" - per AA this was manufactured by

MCC / Matsuzaka Iron Works, 2-9 Yonegahama, Yokosuka, 238-0011, Japan / http://mtzk.co.jp/ / est. 1908 / patent D252666 Aug 21 1979 Masuharu Sakamoto & 4084317 Apr 18 1978 & 4094064 Jun 13 1978 & RE30613 May 19 1981 Masahiko Nakamura & Hidehiko Itou /

 

[David Jackson]

I did not know that AA had anything on Globemaster, will check. Thanks for the tip!

 

[four.cycle]

^ Yes.... he recently dove into researching the origin of the company and came up with some interesting stuff.

Globemaster / Globemaster Inc., 9714 Old Katy Rd., Houston, TX 77055 / "Taskmaster" "Trophy" / founders Robert Bernstein, Harold Klebanoff and Edmund Perwein incorporated May 19 1967 dissolved Dec 4 1995 / primarily a repackager, not a manufacturer. some products were U.S. made. much of the product line was imported from Asia and other countries / https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2015/12/vanished-tool-makers-globemaster.html?m=1 / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/anyone-have-info-on-globemaster-tools.412692/ / http://alloy-artifacts.org/other-makers-p2.html#globemaster /

* The pliers AA refers to in their article are referenced HERE

 

[FTG-05]

My Globemaster hammer; it was free on the side of the curb. I replaced the handle, now it's good as new.

As found:



Cleaned up:



Rehandled:

 

[Globemaster]

^ Yes.... he recently dove into researching the origin of the company and came up with some interesting stuff.

Globemaster / Globemaster Inc., 9714 Old Katy Rd., Houston, TX 77055 / "Taskmaster" "Trophy" / founders Robert Bernstein, Harold Klebanoff and Edmund Perwein incorporated May 19 1967 dissolved Dec 4 1995 / primarily a repackager, not a manufacturer. some products were U.S. made. much of the product line was imported from Asia and other countries / https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2015/12/vanished-tool-makers-globemaster.html?m=1 / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/anyone-have-info-on-globemaster-tools.412692/ / http://alloy-artifacts.org/other-makers-p2.html#globemaster /

* The pliers AA refers to in their article are referenced HERE

My father was the National Sales Manager for Globemaster Tools. He worked for them from 1963 to 1973. He started as a salesman in AZ. He grew that market to be the biggest in the country. He was promoted to Reginal Sales Manager in 1964. We moved to Denver. He grew that region from last in the company to first in one year. He was promoted to National Sales Manager. As you can imagine our home and my home has many Globemaster tools from Power hand saw, that still works, which outlasted Skill, & Craftsman, to a hand drill that you push down to spin the drill. Works in the woods when camping and you want to build something. I have rachet sets in 1/4" and 3/8", 3 sizes of crescent wrenches, pliers, screwdriver sets, an electric drill, hammer, level, 2' square, and many others I cannot remember from the top of my head. As a 9-year-old my best memory was our dad would come home with cases of hammers or other cheap tools. He would take us to the carport and has ask my brother and myself to break every one of these tools. I asked him, "Why do you want us to break them?" He said, "They are cheap **** not worth what people pay for them. I will not sell this ****. I want you to break them. Then I will return them to headquarters and ask they stop making them." It was such a pleasure to have such freedom to break them. I thought they would be hard to break but they broke so easily, we were done with the boxes in 30 minutes. It was fun! Dad approved destruction!" I learned integrity was important, not as a word, but as a way to live.

 

[LesserSon]

I saw these today, so I took a picture.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I saw these today, so I took a picture.

Irrespective of the brand, as boards go, those are kind of cool. Very bold and colorful. If cheap enough, I may have grabbed them just for hanging any brands on them. I am guessing the pliers were suspended from something on a V shaped rack. I only see three holes.

 

[LesserSon]

They were in a silent auction space in a store I sometimes shop. I’ve never signed up to participate in a SA - don’t like the waiting part.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Oh, I didn't mean that to imply that you should have bought them, or ask why you didn't, sorry. I was just expressing acquisition as a sign of appeal.

As long as you mention it, though, this...

I’ve never signed up to participate in a SA - don’t like the waiting part.

...is funny. Your area neighbor, our mutual and one-time flea market friend, is my text buddy. He always seems to be going to auctions and he will tip me off when he sees something I might like. Mainly we just ogle stuff together. But one time he made a bid for me on a very unusual toolbox with a really cool paper decal and a really cool name ("Gentleman's Toolkit"). The next day I texted him and asked if we had won and he informed me that the auction didn't end until the following Saturday. I was confused. Apparently, this kind of auction is like a hybrid between eBay and live. The item is local and you pick it up local, but all the bidding is done online. I get the concept, but totally not for me.

 

[rust in the eye]

My father was the National Sales Manager for Globemaster Tools. He worked for them from 1963 to 1973. He started as a salesman in AZ. He grew that market to be the biggest in the country. He was promoted to Reginal Sales Manager in 1964. We moved to Denver. He grew that region from last in the company to first in one year. He was promoted to National Sales Manager. As you can imagine our home and my home has many Globemaster tools from Power hand saw, that still works, which outlasted Skill, & Craftsman, to a hand drill that you push down to spin the drill. Works in the woods when camping and you want to build something. I have rachet sets in 1/4" and 3/8", 3 sizes of crescent wrenches, pliers, screwdriver sets, an electric drill, hammer, level, 2' square, and many others I cannot remember from the top of my head. As a 9-year-old my best memory was our dad would come home with cases of hammers or other cheap tools. He would take us to the carport and has ask my brother and myself to break every one of these tools. I asked him, "Why do you want us to break them?" He said, "They are cheap **** not worth what people pay for them. I will not sell this ****. I want you to break them. Then I will return them to headquarters and ask they stop making them." It was such a pleasure to have such freedom to break them. I thought they would be hard to break but they broke so easily, we were done with the boxes in 30 minutes. It was fun! Dad approved destruction!" I learned integrity was important, not as a word, but as a way to live.

The town I grew up in had a Globemeaster warehouse. A few of my light fingered friends worked there as warehousemen during high school in the early seventies.
The tools they "got from work" were sometimes sold but more often given away as word spread about how spectacularly ****** they were. Got to the point they weren't even worth stealing. My recollection is of very crude forgings, almost always from India. The retail prices were on the packages and they were dirt cheap for those that actually paid for them. All of my ill gotten ones are gone for many decades now but something turned up in the contents of some old tool boxes full of stuff I bought in order to pick some cherries.
It is "Fully Drop Forged" in Japan and appears better than the junk I remember from my high school days. Perhaps your father had some influence.

 

[four.cycle]

^ so reassuring to know that the drop forging process was fully done.

 

[rust in the eye]

^ so reassuring to know that the drop forging process was fully done.

Yeah, those partially drop forged tools are inferior,