Show us your vintage .... BRAD DRIVER or TACK PULLER

[four.cycle]

Somebody said that three of any one thing makes for “a collection”.
If that's true, I'm the lucky owner of a collection of brad drivers.
After spending the last several weeks sorting out my “collection”, I came up with no fewer than THREE brad drivers: a “Star”, an “Oxwall”, and one marked only “Made in U.S.A.” (which could possibly have been made by General, but there’s no point in trying to Google search “general driver”. (As an aside, searching for “Brad driver” will lead you to several sites where you can purchase Brad Pitt’s California drivers license.)

Noticing the similarity among various models, I wanted to take a look at other models. So far I’ve uncovered the following makers of “brad driver”:

1. Clay (Sheffield England)
2. Coastal (England)
3. Crown Tools (Sheffield UK)
4. Great Neck (China)
5. Great Neck (England)
6. Hyde (Southbridge MA)
7. "Made in USA" (possibly General?)
8. Master Mechanic (Taiwan)(True Value)
9. Oxwall (Flushing NY)
10. Robert Larson (source unknown)
11. Star brad driver
12. Unason Corp. (Unsinger & Son) (Fremont OH)
13. Witherby (England)

and thanks to Gerald at progress-is-fine:

14. "Spiralux" manufactured by Hollands and Blair, London

This of course begs the question of "What else is out there?"

To make this more interesting, and since it's directly related, let's see those TACK PULLERS too!

 

[four.cycle]

Oxwall 5704 Brad Driver
Oxwall / Oxwall Tool Co. Ltd., 133-10 32nd Ave., P.O. Box 231, Flushing, NY 11352 / formerly 401 Park Ave. So., New York, NY / "Powermaster" "Jak-Lok" / patent 3283624 Nov 8 1966 Ted Neff / acquired by EASCO Oct 1984 / http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/03/vanished-tool-makers-oxwall-tools.html / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372196 / http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/24/business/missing-the-hand-tool-boom.html?pagewanted=all /

 

[four.cycle]

Very similar to the Oxwall in appearance (as most of these are) is the "STAR":


STAR Brad Driver - Clay Center Ohio
Star / Star brad driver / Star, Clay Center, OH / no information /

 

[four.cycle]

"Made in U.S.A." Brad Driver (possibly General Tools & Instruments, Secaucus, NJ)

 

[d42jeep]

I guess I found one last Saturday. I didn’t know what it was.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

It’s not surprising that I would have a couple of Barcalo tack pullers. I got the first one in 2016, the second in 2019.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I grabbed this at an estate sale this morning specifically because of this thread.

This has been hanging around the garage for a couple of weeks. The tips may be broken off as it seems too thick to do it’s job properly.
-Don

 

[RTM]

This has been hanging around the garage for a couple of weeks. The tips may be broken off as it seems too thick to do it’s job properly.
-Don

This one might be a leather tool, look in a pre 1970 Osborne catalog. Can't tell if edger or groover

 

[Mintgrun]

This has been hanging around the garage for a couple of weeks. The tips may be broken off as it seems too thick to do it’s job properly.

I have an edge beveller like that. I bought it at Tandy Leather forty-five years ago. I'd remove that eyelet. It'll make it less comfortable to push on.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks for the info, guys. Consider the eyelet gone.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

This one seems more likely to be a tack remover than the leather tool I posted above. No brand name but US made
Is this Stanley device a brad driver?

It certainly looks like it could be.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ is there a hole in the end of that smaller diameter protrusion to put a brad or escutcheon pin?

 

[GreyOwl]

Looks more like a nail set. Put the barrel over the protruding nail and hit with a hammer. I have three of different diameters as well as a matching pointed punch for centering screws in hinges.

 

[d42jeep]

^ is there a hole in the end of that smaller diameter protrusion to put a brad or escutcheon pin?

Yes there is.
-Don

 

[RTM]

Is this Stanley device a brad driver?

It certainly looks like it could be.
-Don

Some of those are self centering punches for marking hinge drilling points. Without a point, unless it's broken or cut off , maybe not. The fixed end doesn't taper enough either, now that I've typed all this.

 

[GreyOwl]

The three on the left in my pic are different sizes, not tapered, and have flat points which still have some remnants of plating on them so not broken or ground flat. The other one has a tapered point with plating also.

 

[d42jeep]

The three on the left in my pic are different sizes, not tapered, and have flat points which still have some remnants of plating on them so not broken or ground flat. The other one has a tapered point with plating also.

Those sound like mine. The nail set makes sense to me.
-Don

 

[wrench136]

The Wonder Nailer! No markings on the tool. Without the box would anyone know the name??

 

[four.cycle]

^ does that have a manufacturer's name on it by any chance?

(* I knew this thread was going to bring out some interesting widgets! *)

 

[wrench136]

^ does that have a manufacturer's name on it by any chance?

(* I knew this thread was going to bring out some interesting widgets! *)

No marking on tool.

 

[Nutria]

No maker's mark

 

[four.cycle]

@Nutria -

a forged tack puller? what will they think of next?

on that "Wonder Nailer" - no maker's name? anything to identify maker at all?

 

[d42jeep]

This was sitting in the free tool box at Saturday’s yard sale. Even came with a little nail inside.
-Don

 

[GLowz]

Somebody said that three of any one thing makes for “a collection”.
If that's true, I'm the lucky owner of a collection of brad drivers.
After spending the last several weeks sorting out my “collection”, I came up with no fewer than THREE brad drivers: a “Star”, an “Oxwall”, and one marked only “Made in U.S.A.” (which could possibly have been made by General, but there’s no point in trying to Google search “general driver”. (As an aside, searching for “Brad driver” will lead you to several sites where you can purchase Brad Pitt’s California drivers license.)

Noticing the similarity among various models, I wanted to take a look at other models. So far I’ve uncovered the following makers of “brad driver”:

1. Clay (Sheffield England)
2. Coastal (England)
3. Crown Tools (Sheffield UK)
4. Great Neck (China)
5. Great Neck (England)
6. Hyde (Southbridge MA)
7. "Made in USA" (possibly General?)
8. Master Mechanic (Taiwan)(True Value)
9. Oxwall (Flushing NY)
10. Robert Larson (source unknown)
11. Star brad driver
12. Unason Corp. (Unsinger & Son) (Fremont OH)
13. Witherby (England)

and thanks to Gerald at progress-is-fine:

14. "Spiralux" manufactured by Hollands and Blair, London

This of course begs the question of "What else is out there?"

To make this more interesting, and since it's directly related, let's see those TACK PULLERS too!

 

[GLowz]

Here’s mine. I have two of them and they both have “Made In USA” as their only identification.

 

[bullrocky]

Somebody said that three of any one thing makes for “a collection”.
If that's true, I'm the lucky owner of a collection of brad drivers.
After spending the last several weeks sorting out my “collection”, I came up with no fewer than THREE brad drivers: a “Star”, an “Oxwall”, and one marked only “Made in U.S.A.” (which could possibly have been made by General, but there’s no point in trying to Google search “general driver”. (As an aside, searching for “Brad driver” will lead you to several sites where you can purchase Brad Pitt’s California drivers license.)

Noticing the similarity among various models, I wanted to take a look at other models. So far I’ve uncovered the following makers of “brad driver”:

1. Clay (Sheffield England)
2. Coastal (England)
3. Crown Tools (Sheffield UK)
4. Great Neck (China)
5. Great Neck (England)
6. Hyde (Southbridge MA)
7. "Made in USA" (possibly General?)
8. Master Mechanic (Taiwan)(True Value)
9. Oxwall (Flushing NY)
10. Robert Larson (source unknown)
11. Star brad driver
12. Unason Corp. (Unsinger & Son) (Fremont OH)
13. Witherby (England)

and thanks to Gerald at progress-is-fine:

14. "Spiralux" manufactured by Hollands and Blair, London

This of course begs the question of "What else is out there?"

To make this more interesting, and since it's directly related, let's see those TACK PULLERS too!

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