Traditional knives and tools

[TheChunk91]

I just got this crescent wrench. Good buy for $10.

 

[Hickory n steel]

New little knife and a new little wrench.

My uncle favors RIGID ( sometimes PROTO) pipe wrenches, and the Buck 305 I gifted him a few years back is his favorite pocket knife.

He's talked me through a good number of plumbing issues over the phone and always patiently puts up with my nonsense when he does.

 

[TheChunk91]

New little knife and a new little wrench.

My uncle favors RIGID ( sometimes PROTO) pipe wrenches, and the Buck 305 I gifted him a few years back is his favorite pocket knife.

He's talked me through a good number of plumbing issues over the phone and always patiently puts up with my nonsense when he does.

Ridgid is hard to beat. All of us in our small family plumbing business use ridgid pipe wrenches, and most every one else I see that uses a pipe wrench professionally uses a ridgid.

We broke one a few years ago, a 36” aluminum. It was pretty weird but they replaced it no problem.

 

[Getting older]

Folks that appreciate the usefulness of a good quality and well designed knife usually also appreciate the same things in our other tools. At the very least tools make a nice looking backdrop for a knife photo. Let’s see them.

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I have that same pocket screwdriver,great tool!

 

[Hickory n steel]

Ridgid is hard to beat. All of us in our small family plumbing business use ridgid pipe wrenches, and most every one else I see that uses a pipe wrench professionally uses a ridgid.

We broke one a few years ago, a 36” aluminum. It was pretty weird but they replaced it no problem.

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My uncle was using cheapo aluminum wrenches for awhile when his supply house dumped a bunch of them on him for a next to nothing bulk price.
A few years back he told me he had a pile of old pipe wrenches I could dig through and take what I wanted before he scrapped them.
I found an old 18" RITCO ( a homeowner grade wrench from RIDGE Tool ) and a smaller PROTO.
The rest of the pile was at least 30 of the budget aluminum wrenches and all had failed in various ways before the teeth could wear very much at all.

He went back to RIGID after that.

 

[JohnDF]

This photo was not staged, this is the way my leather work bench looks... Messy, messy, messy.
The Case Yellow Trapper is one of the first knives I bought when getting back into traditionals and lives on my bench now.

 

[Jack Black]

This photo was not staged, this is the way my leather work bench looks... Messy, messy, messy.
The Case Yellow Trapper is one of the first knives I bought when getting back into traditionals and lives on my bench now.

It's starting to look like my kitchen table John! Nice to see your bench

 

[JohnDF]

It's starting to look like my kitchen table John!

I usually wait to clean it up until I'm between projects or my wife suggests it.

 

[TheChunk91]

Every once in a while I get to rebuild a faucet, but it’s not commonplace anymore.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Heavy duty Record pipe wench old but I looked after it,ratcheting cabinet screwdriver and tough as old boots spanner’s.

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[5K Qs]

Some long-handled tools hanging out in the garage. Can you spot the marlinspike folder?


More long-handled tools on the same wall of the garage. No pocketknife in this pic, but some of the tools have edges:


- GT

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[5K Qs]

My "office toolbox" that I actually carry in my backpack since I often need the tools at home. (I don't typically use the slide rule anymore, but it's fun to carry! )



- GT

 

[drj211]

Here’s one of my most favorite knives on a tool that I have been using way too much lately! Also covers the thread for Stockman Sunday!

 

[Jack Black]

 

[TheChunk91]

 

[Johnnythefox]

Now that's what I call patina.

 

[TheChunk91]

 

[dantzk8]

Train driver tools.

Dan.