Good idea. It's one of those vintage brands, like Crescent, your other recent starter, that is so common that it attracted multiple threads here in the past. Unfortunately, they were all too many, too short, too specific, or both.
It's early, I'm on cup of coffee #1, so I'll start my participation with a funny story that goes to show one aspect of why the inaudible internet isn't all its cracked up to be.
Although it's a fairly common tool, the name is kind of odd, and regional, obviously, derived from its original home city in New York state, which was of course derived from the ancient Phoenician city in northern Africa.
Several years ago at a big swap meet (Eastern Rally at Aberdeen) I met an online friend from G503.com. I was working at APG, but I also had some extra tools and stuff to sell, so he let me set up in his area during "long lunches" and then all day Friday and Saturday. Anyway, we were talking shop all week, trading stories, and examining each others tools.
To get go the point, though, he kept saying Utica like
you-TEAK-a. This was the first time we had met, and it was a little awkward. I didn't want to be the pedant. Finally, I told him it was pronounced
YOU-ta-ka, and he said everyone he knows says it his way. And he was from South Carolina! Made me wonder if half the country is saying it that way and half the other way.
