All About Pocket Knives

I thought this song would be a good fit on this thread.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:17 am

Rockingkj wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:21 am

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 1:47 am I was pretty proud of my Fuller Pliers. Made In England.... until I saw the Winchester pilers.... now it doesn't seem like such a great tool anymore....

Well your Fuller’s are a quality tool. A great find also

Thanks RKJ I have been looking mainly for European made tools lately ... I have WAY too many USA .... if that is even possible

No that’s not possible!

Unk wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:36 am I thought this song would be a good fit on this thread.

Cool song. I have some tools that bring good memories. They'll probably be garage sale stuff when I'm gone.

What a great song!

Bradley is a musical treasure. Great song, written by Dennis Duff.

Ha! I enjoyed that song. Thanks for posting it, Mike.

ThatWeirdKnifeGuy wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 2:02 pm Found this at a thrift store for 3 bucks. I grabbed it because.....it's heavy? It's metal? Seemed cool. But I don't honestly know what it is.

Can anyone help me out here. What is this? The green base plate is about 8 inches long. Lever on top has a spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sysq7lPUeg

Well, I'd say you are missing a few parts and pieces

enuf wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:06 am

ThatWeirdKnifeGuy wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 2:02 pm Found this at a thrift store for 3 bucks. I grabbed it because.....it's heavy? It's metal? Seemed cool. But I don't honestly know what it is.

Can anyone help me out here. What is this? The green base plate is about 8 inches long. Lever on top has a spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sysq7lPUeg

Well, I'd say you are missing a few parts and pieces

A button press! That's hilarious. I could, if i had all 300 of the parts im missing, make new knife swag items...

I'm actually thinking about repurposing it into a press of sorts of my own. Maybe to tighten up a blade with some play when my vice is occupied...or to punch holes in seat bealt. Maybe.

Thanks for the link

too funny - let me know when you get it all up and running and I will buy a button from you.

I bought this vintage fence pliers cause === === I got so much fence to fix here.

Well, any way, I've never seen an older plier like this and they were $3. So I had to have them.

No name on these except the owners initials. 10 inches.

Hi Joe,

Very interesting fence pliers. I don't think those are the owners initials - I think that stands for Grange League Federation. GLF was a farm store in the New York area. It says here the pliers were patented in 1900 by Maxon & Maxon. There is also another pair that sold on e-bay - same markings - they were asking $39.99, so your $3 was a great buy.

https://www.goantiques.com/fencing-plie ... -119992087

Here is a little more information on Grange League Federation.....

https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/gr ... ls.232714/

Unk wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 2:39 pm Hi Joe,
Very interesting fence pliers. I don't think those are the owners initials - I think that stands for Grange League Federation.

Thanks, Mike, for the information. Grange League Federation it is.
I thought they might be early pliers. They certainly have been used but then apparently put away for a very long time.
They're still in decent shape.

I have used lots of fencing pliers, growing up on a ranch, but I have not seen ones like that before. It looks like an effective design.

Fence pliers are something I pick up when I find one I don’t already have. Think I have a dozen or more and probably have not scratched the surface of variety. Farriers hammers are another weakness. Oh heck I like all old tools. Lol

Rockingkj wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 3:09 am Oh heck I like all old tools. Lol

You are with a like minded lot.
Can you show some of your fencing pliers?

FRJ wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 3:41 am

Rockingkj wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 3:09 am Oh heck I like all old tools. Lol

You are with a like minded lot.
Can you show some of your fencing pliers?

I sure will. Got to unearth em in my shop. In an organized (not) pile under a couple feet of other stuff too good to throw away. Give me a day or two to outfit the expedition. It possible I could find Jimmy Hoffa too.

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:02 pm

Unk wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:36 am I thought this song would be a good fit on this thread.

Cool song. I have some tools that bring good memories. They'll probably be garage sale stuff when I'm gone.

What I always tell my wife about all my tools is that the widow with the biggest auction check WINS!!

Here is a nice, old, pipe wrench I bought the other day.

Eaton Cole & Burnham Co.

Crisply stamped but discreetly stamped.

Late 1800s, so I have read.

That's a beauty Joe

Miller Bro's wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 12:02 am That's a beauty Joe

Thanks Dimitri.

I love it when they're old and in such good condition.

Very cool pipe wrench, Joe. I haven't seen one angled like that.

I posted these just before the outage a few weeks ago, and they were lost - hence the re-post.

I picked these up at an estate sale last month. The old "Red Devil" hack saw has patent dates of 1904 and 1905. I cleaned it up a bit and installed a new blade. Good for another 100+ years.

The tiny Millers Falls No. 33 plane was made 1929 to 1974. This one dates to the mid-1960s. It's only 3 3/8" long and 1" wide. It was in very good shape - I just cleaned, waxed, and sharpened it.

Unk wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 4:21 am Very cool pipe wrench, Joe. I haven't seen one angled like that.

Thanks, Mike.

I used to have a big router table set up in my shop, but I used it so infrequently, I broke it down to make room for other clutter. I still have need for a router table from time to time, so I was thinking about buying a table top model, but hadn't pulled the trigger yet. Then a few weeks back, I was at the flea market with my son, and I spotted this. The guy wanted $10 for it, so I couldn't pass it up. I think I even have a PC router that will fit in there, and I was thinking about re-working the fence from the big table model I still have tucked away.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll get around to it when I have time....

Nice router table, Glenn.

I cleaned up this old wrench for my friend. He got it in a bucket of tools from his great-grandfather. Best I can tell, it's a locomotive or tractor wrench from the late 1800s, early 1900s. No markings on it, except for the initials "H.N." lightly drilled into each side.

The small side is 7/8", and the big side is 1" to almost 1 1/4" (it's a little wallowed out)