Saved from the dump

[Nolatoolguy]

I haven't been hitting sales these past weeks as school is expensive. Luckily my tool fix has been solved for the week. 


If some of you remember a while back I helped a elderly lady clean her husbands garage. All of his woodworking tools were auctioned off. She since passed and the family gave me these before they were taken to the dump.















I also got a ton of wood and hardware. The real jackpot is all the hardware, I have to back tommorow with my truck to pick it all up.

[Papaw]

Great haul, and you deserve it for the help you were to her.

[oldtools]

WOW!! great haul, great tools, please show photos of hardware when you get them...

[fflintstone]

sweet!

[Branson]

Wow!  A great reward for good deeds.

[lbgradwell]

I'm liking those Herbrand DBEs...

[bonneyman]

Very happy for you, sir!

It's a great day when one saves vintage chrome form the scrap heap.

[johnsironsanctuary]

That Crafty Toolbox is a treasure. Must be from right after WWII when they stopped using the underlined logo. I thought that all of that style had red backgrounds.

[Nolatoolguy]

Thanks guys, the hardware and wood was alot for me. Most of it was nice hardwood boards, mostly walnut and cherry, and then there was a stack vermeer three feet high. The family previously threw all the hardware in buckets an bins. I had a truckbed full of containers of screws, nails, hinges, etc. then a few buckets on the trailer. Most was new in the package. I have no real use for 25lbs of 3/4 inch brass wood screws. You can tell he liked to buy his hardware in bulk, lol. I took multiple loads to a guy I know who does custom woodworking. He made a deal with the family and I got a portion as well along with I kept just tiny bit for myself.

Here is some wood, most of the bottom stuff is destin for a bonfire later this week.

[Nolatoolguy]

Sorry for the poor qaulity pictures, there from my phone.






It all cleaned up well after dusting the wood off its really got a nice grain.

[oldtools]

WOW!! beautiful wood..

[lauver]

I'm liking those Herbrand DBEs...

+1, very nice set of vintage Herbrand long and short pattern DBE's; excellent wrenches.

The Crafty chest is a very worthy piece too and looks to be in pretty good condition with a nice patina... in other words, a KEEPER.  The Crafty logo on the front cover was used between about 1945-1959.

[fflintstone]

Nice wood!
I lost 2/3rds of all my premium wood in fire #2

[OilyRascal]

I'm drooling over the hardware.

[HeelSpur]

Its hard to tell how much value you have in the hardware, screws,& nails.
Fasteners have really gotten expensive over the past few years, better hang on to them.