staffordjas
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I inherited some from my parents shed , but most have chunks of wood missing where he must have used a hammer on them.I do like screwdrivers with wooden handles.
A bit of a sort-out yesterday revealed that I probably have enough now, I think.
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There are some interesting things there - the 'Perfect'-pattern ones towards the left, the solid steel items with just small wooden plates forming the handle, were common in motor vehicle toolkits before the war - they can be struck firmly with a hammer, whilst being turned.
The 'double-handled' one is something I've never seen elsewhere - you can apply pressure with one hand and torque with the other.
An original Surform and a couple of scrapers rest on an old photographic guillotine, then there's a few chisels.
The chisel with the 'thing' on the end is used for raising a small sliver of wood from a surface, so that a nail or small screw can be used, then the sliver is glued back above it, for a 'secret' fixing.
I found them useful when he'd lock me out at night when I came back late...I'd climb on the bin & use the screwdriver to lever the kitchen window open to climb in ( pre- double glazing days)
Got a wooden hammer with a chunk missing as well, the other one got broke completely when the scrap metal man was removing the stairlift for me. He broke his own , then ours...( but did him a favour with all the free metal, and for me as the stairlift people wanted £200 to remove it!).
My dad got all his screwdrivers etc like that as he cycled from Stafford to his school where he taught in Great Wyrley each day. People fixing broken down cars on the side of the road used to drive off & forget them.