STILL USING ANTIQUE TOOLS?? I STILL DO ON OCCASION. .

[Bald1]

Oldest tool I use on a somewhat regular basis is a wall mount hand crank grinding wheel. I mounted it in my shed at the cabin. Clean up edge on my maul and wedges. Occasionally a mower blade. A shop owner was selling off his stuff and moving south ( big suprise). I was there to buy a set of bits for my drill press. I left with all kinds of stuff including oxy/acetylene set up and tons of C clamps in various sizes.

 

[oldbrownhat]

... I was there to buy a set of bits for my drill press. I left with all kinds of stuff including oxy/acetylene set up and tons of C clamps in various sizes.

BTDT. Reminds me of talking to one of the cashiers a while ago at Hardware Sales in Bellingham, WA (a gen-u-wine HARDWARE store). "Before I started working here, I came in to buy some picture hangers. By the time I left 45 minutes later, I'd spent $235.00... and I never did get my picture hangers."

C clamps? I have a strange addiction for those. I have bought lots of old c clamps, more that I normally need. I dunno... they just look so... lonely, sitting unused on a shelf. I'm a home-putterer, not a welder or metal fabricator. What prompted me to buy one of these old beasts?

 

[oldbrownhat]

Recently I needed to drill a hole through a wooden stud (friends house) through an outlet hole in the wall. I could not use a regular drill (could not get close enough to the wall) so I used my Brace with a 1/2" foot long bit and used it on the ratchet setting. Worked like a charm!

I've collected a number of used long auger bits and use them in my Makita 1/2" cordless drill. Some have the tapered rectangular end for a brace but I just cut it off.

 

[DWalt]

BTDT. Reminds me of talking to one of the cashiers a while ago at
C clamps? I have a strange addiction for those. I have bought lots of old c clamps, more that I normally need. I dunno... they just look so... lonely, sitting unused on a shelf. I'm a home-putterer, not a welder or metal fabricator. What prompted me to buy one of these old beasts?

I have accumulated several dozen smaller C-clamps, mainly 4" or less, but several larger ones. On several occasions I have needed to use all of them, but not recently.

 

[Bald1]

I think my biggest C clamp is 8". I just like old stuff. A lot of mine are J.H. Williams brand. It was a local Buffalo NY company and my wife's father worked there. I never knew him but wish I had. He passed before I met her.

 

[delcrossv]

I've collected a number of used long auger bits and use them in my Makita 1/2" cordless drill. Some have the tapered rectangular end for a brace but I just cut it off.

 

[Heymatt]

Some classics that still get used.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Oops... I guess I should be careful with that True Confessions stuff here

 

[K-22]

Bling?

We've all seen the folding carpenter's ruler. Depending on the brand & model they are 6'8" to 10' long. When my brother and I were apprenticing in the late 60's, that old boy had no use for a tape measure! Every day that I have pants or shorts on, I have a Stanley 1' folding ruler in my pocket. I also have been known to carry a Lufkin 2' folding ruler! (with the Stanley's brass trim, it might be accused of too much bling)

Ivan

I think my brass trimmed Stanley ruler goes along well with my Rolex.
Bling works for some, but not all.

Best,
Gary

 

[oldbrownhat]

I think my brass trimmed Stanley ruler goes along well with my Rolex.
Bling works for some, but not all.

Best,
Gary

As the old jazz standard (updated) goes, "It don't mean a thing / if it ain't got that bling"

I don't have a Rolex, but I also have a "pre-bling" Stanley ruler

 

[Frank46]

I have my father's old wood bodied plane. Rescued it out of my folks house after he passed. Was in sad shape. Resurfaced the bottom using silicon carbide paper and a surface plate. Completely disassembled, cleaned and had a lot of work on the blade. Stoned the blade to 17 degrees and put a micro bevel on the blade. Shavings you can see through. Frank

 

[Jeff423]

I've got 2-3 push drills and use one of them fairly often for pilot holes in wood. The other two I bought because they still had the bits in them which are worth more than the drills. I don't think I've got more than $10 in all three.
I think a lot of them were used by residential phone installers when things were still wired because my best one says Western Electric.

 

[martyd]

My Great Grandad had one of these.

 

[dockmurgw]

Does the rotary dial phone in my kitchen count?

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I recently acquired several Diston saws that belonged to my Father-in-law. They have some rust on them so I plan to clean them up and hang them on my shop wall. I also have some of his old hammers and axes.