How do you store your screwdrivers?

[Rickster]

I have a magnet strip that I use. I got it at a swap meet from some tool-guy, came on a card like KD or Lyle. Has a wide plastic base, so I cut it to fit and then cut my drawer liner carpet to allow it to poke through.

 

[dink]

I have a magnet strip that I use. I got it at a swap meet from some tool-guy, came on a card like KD or Lyle. Has a wide plastic base, so I cut it to fit and then cut my drawer liner carpet to allow it to poke through.

Those old looking wood screwdrivers....who made those??

 

[Rickster]

Don't know. No name on them except each has a triangle with an 8 in the center just before the tip. I use them mostly as prybars. I always see them at estate and garage sales so I picked up a couple of straight ones for myself.

 

[dink]

Don't know. No name on them except each has a triangle with an 8 in the center just before the tip. I use them mostly as prybars. I always see them at estate and garage sales so I picked up a couple of straight ones for myself.

Can we see close up pictures of them????

 

[Cebby]

I store them wherever i last used them... AKA, all over the darn place.

Me too - even the best intentions go awry sometimes...

 

[Rickster]

dink, here are a couple of pics close up. They're metal from tip to **** end and the wooden handles are halved and held in place by rivits. I had to peen the rivits a bit to tighten up the handle halves.

 

[dink]

Actually I wouldnt be surprised if they are chisels or something close to it based on the construction

 

[l_bilyk]

Actually I wouldnt be surprised if they are chisels or something close to it based on the construction

thats no chisel, dink
chisels never taper like that (so you can sharpen them and continue using them)

 

[dink]

thats no chisel, dink
chisels never taper like that (so you can sharpen them and continue using them)

That is true.....but I have seen plenty of chisels or something to this effect shaped exactly like a screwdriver

 

[Uncle Buck]

It's just a really old screwdriver.

 

[Fast Orange]

I may be totally wrong on this,but I remember my father buying several boxes of those drivers at an auction-I'm thinking either Stanley or Mayhew from the 40s or 50s. The auction was a very old farm equipment dealer that closed in the mid 60s.My dad bought a lot of real old stuff at that one-I remember a 40s era 8 HP gas engine that was solid cast iron-had to weigh about 150 lbs-and it was in the original wooden crate.Even the air shrouds were cast-and a wrap-around rope start too.

George