Toolbox Time Capsule, unpacking a 1930-1950s era Carpenter's Toolbox! /EP43

hi my name is Chris and welcome to my channel called the benchtop micro shop that I'm standing in my dad's dream shop and I wanted to take a little bit of time today and do something special unpacking this tool box a year ago I cut cut the lock off this toolbox it belonged to my great-grandfather Bert he lived from 1910 until 1996 and passed away when he was 86 he adopted my grandmother when she was very young and her mother died and he was a master carpenter and what I would consider a Renaissance man many life skills and very mechanically inclined and loved to teach what he knew he personally taught me how to fish and how to sharpen a knife on a whetstone and I know he taught my dad many of the carpentry tricks that he knows so this tool box has been opened a few times in the past year but uh mostly before that lock was cut off a year ago it hadn't been opened in probably at least 10 years so that's pretty pretty special so I haven't really rehearsed this or gone through it I wanted it to be an adventure as I go through it with all of you I don't know how long this video is gonna be I'll try to keep it as short as possible but really let's just take a look at some of the tools a master carpenter who's doing primarily work by hand what he would think would be an important tools to have on a jobsite this toolbox measures about eight inches by probably 32 inches or so and the hardware on it's very rusty I don't think we have everything put away the way that probably he would want to put away so first of all in the opening here I'm seeing a little salt till he's got a there's a crosscut saw here's a rip saw and here's another rip saw a little little longer rip so all of these teeth look like they've been plowed at some point he's the type of man that I would have filed his teeth probably by hand to routinely to sharpen them let's go ahead and put the saws off to the side something else that that I thought was pretty neat when I opened this thing up a year ago he would oil his tools when he put them away so other than you know jobsite patina and rust everything in here has just a fine light coat of oil the way you'd put away a firearm for a long term storage or the way that you'd you know someone that cares about their tools is he gonna put them away they're gonna coat the surface with oil so that they don't rust no and I thought that was pretty special because that really showed that he cared about his tools and took care of them this saw was very sharp see what else do we have in here so I'm gonna go ahead and take out the tray and right up front here oh this is this is very cool there's a lot of blueprints and things for different houses I remember going through this last year he he kept notes of his hours there's his hours that he worked ten-hour days they're mostly 8 or 10 hour days and I kept this is his ledger book [Applause] there he worked for the Mifflin County Creamery that's pretty cool 1939 1939 he worked in August October December it was 1940 this notebook goes out to there's a bill and there's a Power & Light Company bill for $3.97 dated 1945 it sounds like I have half the electric bill he he did not serve in the war that his World War two he had some lung problems that kept him out of service and that was something that that he wished he he could have done here's a log book from 1953 yeah this is cool here's a Hal bricks are laid instructional article on making a backyard grill I think he actually he had one of these in his backyard but there's a yeah that's pretty cool this is me this is blueprints for a house right here these are all hand-drawn blueprints everything's in pencil and a hand-drawn very cool and now a lot of detailed plans here these this looks like mail order plans there's some notes on it gonna locate a radiator there this is cool and yeah I'll put these plans aside they're pretty delicate and I don't want to fumble with them on camera too much but um a bunch of plans and just just notes in here well this might have been when he worked at the creamery here's suggested racks for milk cans and covers no no yeah suggested floor plan of a 12 foot by 12 foot or 10 foot by 12 foot milk house very cool all right more plans make sure I got a good angle here and probably standing in the way of most of this stuff so here you can see down in there alright so there's some sheet metal shears a carpenter's square a chalk line a couple of expanding rolls T bevel for measuring angles and really transferring angles some lines and plumb-bob of course you use that one roughing in things and framing making sure things are aligned straight and level of course we didn't have power drills and screwdrivers so here's a ratcheting screwdriver and here's a gouge of some kind might actually be for I don't know what this one's for that might be some kind of a start grill or hacksaw blade big chisel sharpened by hand of course probably with a file not a pretty sharp edge on it set it dividers these things are very well too oiled I don't know if you can see that but that is uh there's a well well made set of dividers and very very well oiled speaking of oil here's a bottle of oil utility knife well that's three of them and some more chisels these chisels also you can tell they've been sharpened with a file this one's pretty short so it's probably had had an inch or more sharpened off of it over the years another file or chisel blacksmith chisel but this one's pretty sharp and it's got a got a bend in it there so I don't know why I bent that maybe for checking out some framing more chisels here's a vinyl knife things pretty beat-up what is this thing no it's a marking gauge that's an interesting marking gauge so this is a this is number 824 it's a general but gauge it's got some blades on it for marking and then it's got a ruler there so you can lock it and unlock it that is cool little protractor some pin punches in the bottom of the toolbox and ones pinned out pretty good graphite gun little tube graphite four locks or whatever he's working on me one of this cell now I'm sure he had some power tools there there's a carbide tipped masonry drill bit this is a greased tube in an old sterilized razor tube so he kept some grease in there there's a bubble out of an old level sim band-aids let's see what he actually kicked in here got little screws odds and ends in a toolbox Oh what are these dad you know what these are these little clamps this must be for any kind of clamps they go on squares no okay this is for a square especially on a framing square so this is a square like a stop one on square frames for repeating measurements there's some okay so I found some more bits here these are for a drill so this is a drill bit it's a plunge ratchet drill bit and they're like a spade bit no there's some tips for his screwdriver that is cool okay so there are some things he kept in and kind of put away just right you gotta have a good pen there's the pen another blacksmith's or masonry punch your chisel looks like it's had some grinder sharpening some chalk markers crayons markers oh this is actually a wood filler putty putty sticks it some aspirin this is actual one is it yeah aspirin and caffeine and another extension for drill scratch all for marking centers and things it's like he filed that sharp it's got flat size on her maybe took it to a grinder another chisel let's see what else we got you know a little chapstick container with the screws in it hardware look at that no rust all that stuff how on earth okay little tiny stone for sharpening or honing piece of soapstone or whatever that is a flat file single cut that is cool unless we got here soapstone for marking no compass that's me having some little uh etc you know whenever you get a headache on the job you got to get it to go away just some nail sets boy he sharpened them down to punches it's nail sets that have been modified there's a point punch it's mold old nail sets carpenter's pencil no Phillips screwdriver what are these these are old-time sunglasses there you go green tint for probably over his uh his normal wear glasses some coping saw blades look like pretty good blades coping saw blades the HK Porter company in Philadelphia Pennsylvania where in Pennsylvania by the way so here's the main portion of the toolbox up so his Louisville has like a little little bent holder there for it I steel level power craft of the Montgomery board and company no here's a little draw knife use that for chamfering the ends of things yeah pretty good adjoint looks like it's filed been filed there's the coping saw we had to have blades for good old coping saw say I can't even read the name of it it's from Indianapolis Indiana can't read the brand on it hacksaw every toolbox needs one here's is a hand drill and that's pretty cool the woods got lots of oil in it and by the surface rust but not much looks like it's in good working work yeah everything works smooth 100 foot tape measure of course you need that to lay out lay out your framing for surveying or whatever it's in this box hand level no that's cool you're speaking of surveying there's a little lens is cracked but it's a six inch hand level it says so it looks like have a look through that oh yeah so it's got a little little vertical line in it and a level inside so you can sight along things and see if if it's level that is cool okay there's some Stanley fasteners I can't even tell what time oh wow that's interesting okay so that's for joining trusses or whatever I pound that man they're corrugated fasteners they keep joints from separating probably for framing trusses it's a pack of 100 there's a nail bag see what kind of nails are in it that sounds like there's something other nails there we go okay a little bit of rust in here that's why you probably want to put them away in cloth but drill bits it's not a bunch of old drill bits of different sizes cool there's an adjustable Spade bit all right knee I have never used one of these I don't think put that right back in here's another nail bag with actual nails in it and there's some framing nails very cool hammer little fiberglass handled nothing too fancy there you got a block plane and well Stanley see we can brush that out there we go a stanley number 220 block plane take a look at the edge on that shoe is uh nicely oiled action on it's pretty smooth still definitely put it away and get a order yeah it's kind of sharp edge on it it's a way he sharpened it's kind of interesting it's got a little camber to it definitely been sharpened by hand probably with a file where I want us want a stone of course it's adjusted nice and square there so he you put it away ready to go and then we have a long bench plane here some kind yeah yeah that's cool hmm this is a Stanley Bailey hard to read on this one made in the USA I can't get a number off it and I'm oh there we go a number five Stanley Stanley number five bench plane or maybe a smoothing plane of some kind I'm not not the most knowledgeable person on planes but and you know what it's got a nice smooth actually that single finger you're adjusting well oiled and well tuned like you'd expect very cool so that is it that's the bottom of the toolbox right there so that is that give you a little pan over it and if you got any questions about any of this stuff let me know I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability but we're about to a 20-minute video so anyhow I hope you enjoyed the tour of the toolbox I definitely thought that was pretty cool here old pan over here get material that was in it and this hand sauce very cool so thanks for watching

Channel: Chris Harpster, Benchtop Woodworks

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Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 23 2017