All About Pocket Knives

That is cool Joe

Yeah, dogg, glad you like it. It's a real nice tool.

Nice one Joe, I have one somewhere but it is all aluminum instead of steel.

Thanks, Dimitri.
I have a hook rule in aluminum with brass joints.
Another good ol' Lufkin.

I inherited this old home made metal box back in 2005 along with some other of my g-grandfathers tools (see my restoration pics a few pages back in this thread).

My cousin said was used on the family farm in Oklahoma back around 1905 to the 1930s, and they kept it on the truck to hold tools to work on the tractors. I was cleaning out the garage today, and got to the box. I haven't opened it up in years, and honestly thought it was empty. But it had a couple of old vises, the head off a maul, and a large hay hook (the Wards wire stripper is just thrown in for scale)

They are in rough shape, but pretty cool. The Luther has had some repair welding done on it and has a broken jaw face, but it still works. The Temp-R-ITE vise works ok but is missing the swivel base.

I did a little internet sleuthing, and Luther Grinder Mfg was in business the 1910s to 1930. I didn't fine anything on Temp-r-ite, except one hacksaw for sale on e-bay.

If any of you guys know any history on Temp-r-ite, please point it in my direction. Thanks

The Temp-r-ite after a date with the angle grinder wire brush, bench grinder wire brush, and Dremel wire brush.

Also straightened out the swivel base tightener bolt handle. It's also missing a jaw face, with the screws broken off in the jaw.

I'm not sure this one is worth doing anything with. My buddy owns a machine shop (they make aircraft parts for Lockheed and Bell), and he would probably make me some replacement parts in exchange for a couple of knives..... if I asked. Or I may just put it back in the metal box.

Been up'ta old Ed's camp working in his tool shed and came across sum old tool,neet to me was Utica and Boker hand tools and cutting tools.

I love old machinery Two old machinest in my neighborhood use to find old one-lungers on abandoned farm land and I'd help them haul them out,they rebuild them then show em at state fairs.Another old wareted Stanley tool.

1967redrider, that's a great video of old equipment! Love to hear the old engines idling. When I was a little feller, one of the cattlemen had an old John Deere that could be heard for the longest distance. It made a spat, spat, spat noise while he pulled some sort of bottom plow in an old flat woods field.
The 1st home I remember was next to a sawmill. In the video, the carriage for the logs and the chain that pulled the sawdust out and away from the saw blade was very similar to what was next door. It was a great place to play when the men went home in the afternoons. Can't remember getting hurt playing around the mill. There was always a lot of pine tar on my knees and hands that mother had to clean off with kerosene.
I noticed a couple of Model A's that reminded me of some of the ones we had as teenagers. They were called "Skeeters", hood, front fenders, windshield, some sort of seat and a little flat bed on the back and of course some bigger tires. Those old engines were so easy to keep running even I could work on one. I remember going to Sears Roebuck and buying a 21/32", half inch drive socket to undo the rod bolts. Oh how I wish I still had the 3 Model A's I used to own!
I do have an old single cylinder International Harvester stationary engine somewhere out in my shop. That might be a good project for an old man when he gets tired of pocket knives.
We are enjoying a rainy afternoon and as I watched the Somerset video it brought back a lot of old memories!
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote:1967redrider, that's a great video of old equipment! Love to hear the old engines idling. When I was a little feller, one of the cattlemen had an old John Deere that could be heard for the longest distance. It made a spat, spat, spat noise while he pulled some sort of bottom plow in an old flat woods field.
The 1st home I remember was next to a sawmill. In the video, the carriage for the logs and the chain that pulled the sawdust out and away from the saw blade was very similar to what was next door. It was a great place to play when the men went home in the afternoons. Can't remember getting hurt playing around the mill. There was always a lot of pine tar on my knees and hands that mother had to clean off with kerosene.
I noticed a couple of Model A's that reminded me of some of the ones we had as teenagers. They were called "Skeeters", hood, front fenders, windshield, some sort of seat and a little flat bed on the back and of course some bigger tires. Those old engines were so easy to keep running even I could work on one. I remember going to Sears Roebuck and buying a 21/32", half inch drive socket to undo the rod bolts. Oh how I wish I still had the 3 Model A's I used to own!
I do have an old single cylinder International Harvester stationary engine somewhere out in my shop. That might be a good project for an old man when he gets tired of pocket knives.
We are enjoying a rainy afternoon and as I watched the Somerset video it brought back a lot of old memories!
Treefarmer

Glad you enjoyed it as much as I do, Tree! Every year around the first weekend of September I try to go to Somerset, depending on the weather. Some years it gets swampy, some are hot and dusty, but I've always had a good time seeing how things used to be done.

Back in Ed's tool shed another old Apex keenedge knife and scissors sharpener

These are some of mine that made it into a display in my barn then got buried.

The ultimate Steam Punk video. Thanks Redrider.

Eveled I love old tool walls like that

50th annual theshermens show at Adam's Tn. July 19th and 20th. Great show, steam engines, gas engines, ole tractors and mule and tractor pulls.

We occasionally stop here in the historical town of Fillmore Ca. It's on the way to Ventura Ca. for the weekly fresh ocean fish market, held every Saturday. Many Antique shops within this small town.
There are many older turn of the century operational trains based here that are older than the one I posted.(Diesel, Coal-Steam.)
Weekend train rides to Santa Paula Ca. Murder mystery train trips such as: "Murder on the Orient Express"
The below tools are within one of the many historical buildings at the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot.

Very interesting photos. Thanks for posting Dan.

I am restoring a bandsaw given to me about 15 years ago. I stuck it in a shed and it got a little rusty. I figured after spending about $200 on rust remover, wire brushes, sand paper, and about 10,000 man hours of labor, I will have me a nice bandsaw worth about $100.

Here's what I started with:

...and current status:

Unk wrote:...and current status:

Beautiful dog.

How about this one

Looks like some kind of pipe cutter?

Nice ole bandsaw. Should be a nice working saw again.