S&W Screwdrivers

[ISCS Yoda]

Well, these don't have logos but I have no idea where else to post this.

Pictured are a bunch of S&W screwdrivers that came out of S&W gun boxes as my buddy bought and sold and used S&W handguns. He asked me if they had value, I didn't know, but I know where to ask.

2 are used, obviously, the rest are "new but out of the box".

Comments, questions, criticisms, witicisms are all solicited. The basic question is whether or not there is a market amongst S&W aficionados for these little jewels, er, tools.....

 

[Vtgw938]

Definitely have value. Do a search here and other sites and you will find prices. Sure you could sell them in the classifieds here.

 

[Jack Flash]

I can't remember what I paid for the last one I bought, but it was probably around $15. I think they are now selling for $25 and up. That's per each of course. New, unused may go for more.

 

[Baxter6551]

Last seller I saw on forum was selling for $25.00 each as I recall.

 

[GF]

You'll think I'm crazy but ... I use one to take grips on and off my revolvers.

 

[quikdraw67]

Ahem, "sight adjustment tools".

 

[teletech]

It's crazy what some of the rarer variants sell for. Not knowing what it was, I picked up a random specimen out of some oddments my great-grandfather had collected while cleaning out the house and a few years (and many Smiths) later saw the same selling for a few hundred bucks!

 

[jschmidt]

They're for filling out collectible boxes. That kind of little screwdriver isn't very good for smithing.

 

[STG38]

They are okay for adjusting sights, but as noted above not for gunsmithing. The handle diameter is just too small to develop any torque. All the SATs shown have the hollow-ground tip, and they go for about $20 and up on auction websites.

 

[rct269]

Another thing they're good for is as a special tool for removing/installing rebound slide springs in hand ejectors so equipped. This necessitates cutting a small notch in the end of the blade. Once so modified, they work like a charm, never wear out, never break, and are good essentially forever-------or until you come across the "Smithmaster" by Gunsmither Tools. Then you're pretty well doomed, because the Smithmaster is the neatest thing since sliced bread---never mind the two have nothing whatsoever in common.

This very excellent tool is available from gunsmithertools.com---as are several other fine tools to be found nowhere else that I know of.

Ralph Tremaine

And if you ask him nicely, RKmesa will very likely post a picture of what I believe are ALL such S&W screwdrivers----a couple/several(?) of which will set you back a bit more than $25------considerably more actually----like if you gotta ask, you very likely can't afford it---------or will at least be so overcome by common sense you will choose not to afford it----as unlikely as that may seem to the charter members of the lunatic fringe.

 

[ditrina]

This will help with identifying.

Price is what the market will bare

 

[Ruger 13]

I sold 2 for $100.00 last year!

 

[opoefc]

Ditrina's great post above is missing the rarest of all - The Post war "curly que " version of the aluminum fluted sample seen on the far right. It happens when the fluting tool's cutter got broken or worn and did not make a clean flute cut, resulting in a curly circular cutting imprint in the flutes. I sold the last one of only three I've ever seen at the S&W Symposium last year for $100. Just a manufacturing error but that's what makes something interesting to the "lunatic fringe" Ralph refers to above ! Ed

 

[Club Gun Fan]

Here are some of mine. The .38 SA tools were used like screwdrivers.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Here’s my sight adjustment tool story. I was looking at a very nice 581 with the box, all papers, and the cleaning tools in an unopened bag. The shop owner said, and I quote: “The only thing missing is the screwdriver . . . “

My response: “So, $100 off?”

Him: “Okay . . . “

I know. That’s mean. But sometimes I can’t help myself . . .