Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: leg17 on December 22, 2014, 04:57:31 PM
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I must be missing something.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151516162240?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
This one is a little more understandable as the 9/16 size is seen less often. But still.......
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151516150022?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Thanks for posting the link. I had no idea people would pay that much. I guess I better raise the price on mine...by a bunch.
Mike
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It is for two of them and they are getting harder to find. I only have one because I am a cheapskate.
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Must be paying extra for the un-noted professional restoration -- the 9/16 is way too pretty for an old tool. I doubt it looked that nice new out of the box.
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I have never found a perfect handle wrench, I gotta imagine they are very hard to find. I sold a nice HD Smith screwdriver for up near $70 a while back but that was more than I expected to get for it
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This 6 inch S handled adjustable is at $350 with less then 45 minutes to go.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/H-D-Smith-6-inch-034-Perfect-Handle-034-034-S-034-wrench-/151516124090?_trksid=p2054897.l4275
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S-O-L-D $356.oo 4 bidders
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Same seller.
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Guess we all need to freshen up our buffing wheels.
Bid history on some of these shows at least three aggressive bidders.
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Wow, crazy money
At least for me
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OMG
I have lived to see it
In a million years I would not have believed that I would live long enough to see my beloved Perfect Handles getting the attention they always deserved.
Damn
Over 40 years I loved them
In the beginning, if anyone else, anywhere loved them? Yeah they probably did, but they weren't talking to me!
Forgotten, barely noticed. Old screwdrivers what in hell does anone want with old screwdrivers?
They were the grungy forlorn old men at the corner of the swap meet, that's who. Everything we have, everything we collect.......... in the generation before us, nobody wanted it for dirt. It was crap. They were dross on the fringe of society.
Old tools? What are you kidding? Who wants new tools, much less old tools. It was a different world. It was jetty and flashy and hip. Old tools had no place no more.
I bought tools from the last of them. Same old tired dark greasy fruit crates. Consigned to the edge of the antique show or swap meet because nobody else wanted them nearby.
Once in a while one of them would open a shop. It never lasted. A few seasons and gone. But in that minute, tools were exchanged for very little.
Then came the decorators. Who bought old tools to hang on the wall and hoped there would one day be a market for it. These guys opened shops, but the price was too high for taking any home for fun.
But it was the crazy picker scroungers, who saved all of the old tools, all of them. Just one or two generations back.
They are responsible for everything we have.
I have lived to see Perfect Handles loved. Whoda thunk it?
Does this mean my number is almost up?
yours Scott
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No, but you are starting to sound older......
Chilly
PS maybe you will win some lottery or something?
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OMG
I have lived to see it
In a million years I would not have believed that I would live long enough to see my beloved Perfect Handles getting the attention they always deserved.
Damn
Over 40 years I loved them
In the beginning, if anyone else, anywhere loved them? Yeah they probably did, but they weren't talking to me!
Forgotten, barely noticed. Old screwdrivers what in hell does anone want with old screwdrivers?
They were the grungy forlorn old men at the corner of the swap meet, that's who. Everything we have, everything we collect.......... in the generation before us, nobody wanted it for dirt. It was crap. They were dross on the fringe of society.
Old tools? What are you kidding? Who wants new tools, much less old tools. It was a different world. It was jetty and flashy and hip. Old tools had no place no more.
I bought tools from the last of them. Same old tired dark greasy fruit crates. Consigned to the edge of the antique show or swap meet because nobody else wanted them nearby.
Once in a while one of them would open a shop. It never lasted. A few seasons and gone. But in that minute, tools were exchanged for very little.
Then came the decorators. Who bought old tools to hang on the wall and hoped there would one day be a market for it. These guys opened shops, but the price was too high for taking any home for fun.
But it was the crazy picker scroungers, who saved all of the old tools, all of them. Just one or two generations back.
They are responsible for everything we have.
I have lived to see Perfect Handles loved. Whoda thunk it?
Does this mean my number is almost up?
yours Scott
Nice looking set of Perfect Handles Scott. Did you sand down all the existing finishes on the scales? What did you use to finish them? They show nice grain. I usually try to clean mine but leave the existing finish and put some Watco oil and wax on them.
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Nice looking set of Perfect Handles Scott. Did you sand down all the existing finishes on the scales? What did you use to finish them? They show nice grain. I usually try to clean mine but leave the existing finish and put some Watco oil and wax on them.
Burnsie
No, you are looking at figured walnut, Asian rosewood, African blackwood, ebony, Honduras rosewood and snakewood. Some of the most precious woods there are.
I figured out how they originally set the handle scales. Nobody remembered how they did it.
You press them in. Press some and carve to the line. Press and carve, press and carve. Eventually they will lay right in like they were poured in place. Perfect fit
It took me 3 years screwing around on an off to figure that out. Since then I have taught many guys how.
yours Scott
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Nice looking set of Perfect Handles Scott. Did you sand down all the existing finishes on the scales? What did you use to finish them? They show nice grain. I usually try to clean mine but leave the existing finish and put some Watco oil and wax on them.
Burnsie
No, you are looking at figured walnut, Asian rosewood, African blackwood, ebony, Honduras rosewood and snakewood. Some of the most precious woods there are.
I figured out how they originally set the handle scales. Nobody remembered how they did it.
You press them in. Press some and carve to the line. Press and carve, press and carve. Eventually they will lay right in like they were poured in place. Perfect fit
It took me 3 years screwing around on an off to figure that out. Since then I have taught many guys how.
yours Scott
Wow! With the methodolgy for adding the wood to the handles it's easy to see why plastics took over.
Makes me wonder how many people worked at the plant where these were made and how many did they turn out each day?
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Wow! With the methodolgy for adding the wood to the handles it's easy to see why plastics took over.
All the originals were stuffed with beech. Or at least every original I ever saw was. Beech can be pressed in 2 rounds.
Unlike ebony, that takes about 5 rounds of press n carve.
In the factory I am sure they already had handle scale blanks made up by the carload. Not like me who has to hunt and scrounge.
I expect they used a hydraulic press instead of my old bench vise screw, to apply the pressure. Probably used a large belt sander with a --long-- belt that cut the wood down very quickly.
It was factory work. Just crank 'em out.
yours Scott