My Fathers Craftsman Tool box

[larrythedog]

I think yours is a 50's box
remove a drawer and check the bottom for a color match, hammered silver I think

This one was my dads and a little earlier (40's), I toyed with the idea of restoring it, but chose not to, the memories are strong seeing it as we used it.

I’m probably going to get a lot of **** for this one, but I scraped out a box like this a year or so ago. It even had the key for the lock. It wasn’t quite as nice as this one though and it only had four drawers. My dad picked it up in a yard sell a year or two before he died. I didn’t even know what it was. Stupid me.

 

[ZRX61]

I’m probably going to get a lot of **** for this one, but I scraped out a box like this a year or so ago. It even had the key for the lock. It wasn’t quite as nice as this one though and it only had four drawers. My dad picked it up in a yard sell a year or two before he died. I didn’t even know what it was. Stupid me.

& thus begins a life of never throwing anything away, ever again....

 

[larrythedog]

& thus begins a life of never throwing anything away, ever again....

LOL. Will the cycle never end?

 

[scottnj]

I just picked this one up last week on craigslist. Thinking it's late 40's/early 50's. Still debating on whether to restore or use as-is.

Some surface rust but the whole thing is solid. What I'm struggling with is fixing the drawer slides -- one drawer works flawlessly but the others have issues (broken tabs, broken rails on the drawers, bent slides that I can't get out of the unit). Any advice on drawer slide repair would be appreciated.

For now I'm going to focus on fixing the drawers and cleaning it, then think about making it look nice. I'll probably just do something to stop the rust and use it as-is.

 

[vegar]

Wow! Those tool boxes are gourgeos. To bad I never have seen one of those on this side of the pond