See, I think any crafty guy will appreciate this classic tool chest, built by a piano maker, back when craftsmen walked the earth.... http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/ProjectsAndDesign/ProjectsAndDesignArticle.aspx?id=27038
Restore it. If it was in great original condition, with only a ding or two, then leave it. But as it is now, it's just a beat old box in the garage with history only for you. Restore it to the way your grandfather bought it, and then enjoy it. Make it a focal point of your shop and honor your grandfather that way, rather than just having it as another piece of old stuff in the shop. -Brad
***What Brad said!!! I get all sentimental about my Dad's old stuff, he's gone now but I kept what I could... some B4 and after pics...
Here's mine...another old Snap-On box. My dad bought it at an auction when he was about 10 years old. We think it is late 40's/early 50's vintage. The coolest part doesn't show in the photo...it has a "garage door" front that rolls down to cover the drawers...keeping people out of your tools!
its a really nice kennedy i got far about 10 bucks or so at a flea market, its more of a brown/green, my cam sux. just a lil flash rust on the lock from sittin on the patio, i guess i should put em in the garage.....
my buddy has that exact box-i love it! the garage door feature is so cool. mine's not exactly vintage....
Great post. Tool boxes are like garages. You cant have to much garage or to many tool boxes. My grandpa bought a Craftsman work bench with drawers and a roll around tool box in the 50's. When he passed away my Dad got it. Dad bought a new Rem Line in 1966 when he worked at the Chevy Garage. When Dad retired from the garage he put the Rem Line on Grandpa's Craftsman box. When Dad passed away I got the Rem Line and Craftsman boxes. Both came with some neat old tools. Tool Boxes are like cars, they have a history and provide great memories.
I needed a tool tower to put my bigger stuff in, but was taken aback at the prices being asked. My solution: a early seventies Pepsi machine. I'm in the process of gutting the machine and adding drawers. I even wired the front so the Pepsi sign at the top will be lit with LED's.
Blackhawk tools came out with this box to showcase its Nuggets line of sockets in 1947. I am pretty sure they never got into the vacume bussiness. They were a pretty big tool name in the day. (still around as far as I can tell)
This is a machinists tool chest with oak drawers lined with felt bottoms. Metal outer case. Locking front panel.
Here are some of my tool boxes. I used to keep the upper chest at work. It is ridiculously heavy and has no handles or legible badges. I have tried to find out who manufactured it and approximate age, but have had no luck. The top lid is a style I had never seen before. The drawers are the compound slide type and operate well whether they are half empty or loaded to the hilt. The guy I got the roller chest from said he thought it was a Proto. It has no badges just the outline of an oval with the ends squared off. They are both very sturdy although the roller needs a new set of casters and a paint job. I actually prefer these two boxes over the Craftsman set I bought about 10 years ago. There is just a world of difference in the quality of construction.
That is so cool. There was one of these on Ebay last year, and I watched it until it closed...went for too much money for me, but I would have LOVED to have had it. I saved pictures of it and was going to post them, but obviously there's no need.
Count me in! not a rollaway, or even a toolbox really, but old none the less... I think it's intended use was as a tackle box. I'm gonna use it for road tools though. I found it in the dumpster at work, and it had this pepto pink paint on it. It looks so much like my valve cover I had to take it home. I'm gonna paint it to match my car, HOK candy blue, with pearl white stripes on the top, and handle. and the lettering if i can figer out how to do it clean. Anyone have an idea as to how old this is? My guess is taintes because it looks like my cover, I'm asssuming mid 50's, early 60's? It has this cool, redundant safety latch incase you forget to latch it.
Just found this one of a popular fella who SELL-ERS stuff on here and makes awesome cast parts.-Weeks
i have a Snap-on bottom box similar to the one in the first post, the middle box is a bit later maybe 70's. i also have a Snap-on top box that was designed to fit in the boot(trunk) of a Austin Mini, i don't use it anymore as it's a bit small as you can imagine. i'll get some pics tomorrow and post them up
here are a couple more,first is an antique filmstrip cabinet, these were discarded from a local high school, my friend go the other 30, i wish i could have gotten more. these are built like a brick sh..house. you can put anything in these. my old fashioned filing cabinet,antique safe, which i have no idea what the combination is to. lots of parts storage and super strong. another old homemade box i found at a fleamarket, very well built,i have it loaded with open end wrenches.
Here's a pic of mine as promised... i think it's 60's Snap-on roll cab, 70's or 80's Snap-on middle box, shitty modern top box(temp) and a late 90's MAC side cab...
I picked up a nice old tool box from an auction recently, but I don't know who made it. I'm sure you guys can help me out. The 2nd picture shows where it looks like the badge used to be, as well as the unique markings on the handles Edit: Looks to have the same handle markings as the ones in Goldie's picture on the last page
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