Vintage tools

[ringo]

Chatted about this on the gardening thread years ago but we don't have a dedicated thread including other trades / tools / bits.

I love old tools, particularly hand tools which have had long and well used lives. The feel of them, the quality, the patina on the wood of the graft of hundreds of hours used by a craftsman or craftswoman.

Most were made to last a lifetime, and often many lifetimes, so they deserve to be discovered, handed down and kept alive.

This week I discovered Scott's Furniture Mart in Margate. There are separate areas for everything from tools of every kind to chairs, table legs, gravy boats and thimbles. Thousands of house clearances, collections and accumulations to be sifted and rummaged, proud finds held aloft and claimed for their next life.

I picked these up for £12 and took a few pics.

 

[Badgers]

Vintage tools

Sasaferrato

 

[ringo]

Gardening tools I inherited from my Uncle. Some, like the broad hay fork, were used on my family farm for several generations.

 

[ska invita]

sexy hammer

 

[Badgers]

Rusty flange

 

[ringo]

sexy hammer

Marking gauge

 

[ska invita]

Old Hammy xx

 

[wayward bob]

This week I discovered Scott's Furniture Mart in Margate.

how did you get into my house?

 

[wayward bob]

bone folder

 

[weepiper]

My dad has still got all my grandpa's hand tools from when he was a joiner. No pictures of the tools, but here's one of the owner, c.1935.

 

[Mumbles274]

Nice. I quite like a restoration video or 2 on youtube. Stuff like this

 

[Baronage-Phase]

My dad has a decent collection of tools. He used to work as a joiner.
Still does a bit but at nearly 80 he is very much slowed up. His work is still exemplary...And he still has people asking for his advice and demos etc.

 

[ringo]

Nice. I quite like a restoration video or 2 on youtube. Stuff like this

Love that

 

[wayward bob]

i'm waiting for this to be delivered atm

it's a roller for marking out embroidery (i use old textile stamps with copper-clay for enamelling)

 

[Micro]

My grandad’s old bottle opener from the 30s. Simple and beautiful.

 

[ringo]

Nice. I quite like a restoration video or 2 on youtube. Stuff like this

I thought I might have a go at that myself, having had a vague idea that at some point I'd like to buy half a farm animal and butcher it myself.
I spotted this cleaver on Ebay that didn't need any work except a sharpen, but was in such good condition for 1943 I couldn't resist.
I didn't check the size, it's massive. Nearly half a metre long! I'd hang it on the wall but if it fell off it'd kill you.
Fork and 50p for scale.