Excellent job on the restoration. I'm actually from New Haven, same as the tool and recently lost a leg due to an infection. This is inspiration to get me working in my own shop restoring my dad's and grandpa's tools. Cheers, Pete.
That is one nice piece. I like seeing people taking old things and bring new life to them. I like buying old things that are different. I have not really seen one like the one you have.
Good morning, excellent restoration, you must be proud of your work, giving new life to tools that deserve to be brought back and used again, keep the good job
Love the color you used. Been watching your channel for a long time. Have commented several times. I used to have a huge amount of tools. I sold everything including all my furniture and house. Went on the road in an RV for a year. But couldn’t do it anymore. Now living in an apartment and miss all my tools everyday.
Great job 👍. I could really use that tool, I an 68 years old and trying to build up a collection of tools to keep busy while I am retired because of arthritis. Thank you for your great videos !👍👍👍
Good job. That was quite a transformation! I never would have guessed green but I like it. I have a small collection of these crate openers. I even have one that is solid brass. It was so tarnished and filthy that I didn’t even realize it until I started cleaning it. None of mine look as good as yours though. I guess I’ll have to go back and try again. Take care 😃👍🏼
Beautiful piece of work. I currently scratch around for pocket money disassembling old pallets and making up birdtables, garden furniture and the like for neighbours and friends. I would like to say that would be a great addition to my tool collection but to be honest it is so nice I doubt I could bring myself to use it in anger, so choose your recipient carefully. As ever, keep up the good work, Dave
Fantastic restoration and excellent choice of color. Love the way Hammerite paint looks on old tools. I would be proud and honored to add such a restored tool to my meager collection.
Love the finish that you have made, the only thing I don’t like is the fact that I don’t have the skill or patience to do any of this, but love watching how they are done and especially the results
Old school tools rock! Grandpa had a couple of these I remember as a child. He had a lanyard tied to them for when he’d take one out of his pouch, so he couldn’t lose it, nor could anyone borrow it. He used to say “if you put your tools down and walk away, they’ll grow feet and you’ll never see them again” lol. Words of wisdom right there. Nice work! 👍🏼👍🏼 from this guy!
That is a spectacular finish. Love your work and the tool. We don’t see any of these in Melbourne, Australia. I even love the colour. So would my wife. Green is her favourite colour. 👍🇦🇺
Very nice work! Hope the recipient enjoys it Have one like it I restored, but not the mirror polish, as I use it around the farm. A working tool. Yours I would put away and just admire now and again.
Very Cool.... Thank you for saying what the thing is. I just found one in my father's old tool set from Grumman Aerospace. (But it's broken, one of the teeth snapped off the nail puller) Had no idea what it was but now it makes sense. I also have two shipping crates in my garage that held ejection seats for an F-14.
This would be so perfect for what I do! I hand carve unique small pieces and often need a hatchet or pry bar, which I don't own, to break apart wood. Most tools are too big for my wall hands. This looks like it was made for me.
Great video of showing something so mundane becoming beautiful like the Butterfly emerging from it's cocoon .Would like to win it not to use but to hang on the wall as a show piece.
Great job! I am picking up an assortment of old tools tomorrow. Going to get a gallon of Evaporust and try my hand at restoration. Older tools were made with better metal than the cheap Chinese stuff you can get today. Would love to win this classic tool.
Beautiful restoration. Fellow Texan here, out in West Texas. Having restored quite a few axes over years, to a mirror polish, I know first hand how much time and effort went into your restoration. It looks quick on video, but the reality is, it generally takes hours of relentless hard work. Hope you will enter me into the contest. This is the kind of tool I'd love to pass down to one of my grand kids along with a note on the history of how it was restored. Keep up the good work!
I couldn't 'pry' myself away from this video as you really 'nailed' it again. I could see myself holding it (you know, because of the mirrored finish). Great work
That's an awesome job you did it's just beautiful. If you keep this up I'm going to get inspired but seriously thanks for your videos their helping me through a rough patch, just what I needed.
A beautifully polished and presented crate opening tool. A tool that I would love to own and one that I would proudly wield while performing all my crate-opening endeavors.
Very nice restoration nice bit of green & perfect polish..👍🏻🇺🇸💕🇬🇧 I’m a Roofer so it would be a nice addition to my hand tools for me And it saves me buying a new one from bloody China 🇨🇳
Loved this video. Always wondered how the experts took a nasty looking piece of metal to such a mirror finish. I would love to be the winner of it but whoever wins will certainly be getting a nice piece of art. Good luck to us all!
Pink!!! Nah, I would have picked green since its your logo color lol but I've watched the whole video so my guess dont count. Good job on the finish, just broke my mirror at home so ill be needing that to replace it hahaha keep it up!
I mean you can definitely wrench on some crates with that, so I'll allow it. :P I'd love to have that, but I don't actually have a use for it currently, I have no shop or anything at the moment. It should go to someone that needs it.
What a wonderful multipurpose tool !! Small and light weight but very hand and durable !! What a mirror polish as well very nice !! Only one question I noticed the original makers name on the handle but wasn't able to read it . Who made it please ? And GREAT work on this useful tool it looks WONDERFUL !!👍👍
I would love to own a tool like that. the way it polishes to a mirror finish when it touches the buffing wheel is awesome.i like you channel my favourite video is the tiny rock/masonry hammer.looking forward to the next video 😃👍
I remove asbestos for a living and this tool would b awesome but if it were 1.5 or 2 times the size would b even better. I need to make one of these for sure. Can't wait to find a scrap peice of steel hat big.
Looks great 👍 I guess you can’t take the Brit 🇬🇧 out of the man.. 🙂.. He went with the British racing green 😎 Who wouldn’t want this tool? 🤷🏻♂️ I know I do 🤞
I remember these from when I was a kid. To have a hatchet AND a hammer was cool enough. We did not know what the other notches were for but it made the tool even cooler amongst your friends. I like what you did with the green inset. I was trying to guess what color you would use. What we older guys (I am 69) would call candy apple green makes this tool pop! Very good job cleaning up the mold lines and thankfully the rust was mostly surface rust. To take an antique and give it new life is very satisfying I'm sure. And you don't get to the level of polish you achieved by saying "Well that's good enough". Very well done indeed. This tool was an original 'multi tool': crate tool, crate hammer, crate opener? For unpacking crates it must have been very useful and maybe still is. Could not guess as to its age. Possibly older than me I am sure. To own this tool restored to this level would be very gratifying to me. It would look good with the few other antiques I was allowed to 'decorate' the family room/man cave with. Would be interesting to know how many people would remember it let alone know its intended use. The hand tools I have kept of my father's and both grandfathers I consider users and keep most in an old 'hip roof' tool box of my dad's. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to give this tool a new home.
The tool looks very good, you really know how to restore things, you did a good job. If I'm lucky enough to win it, I'll give it to my father as a Christmas present. Good luck to everyone, the luckiest one to win it ! ; )
Figure i might as well enter for a chance. I dont have a cool story or anything about the tool, im just a guy in his 20s who likes the idea of having nice tools to pass on to his kids in older age.
I thought it would be red ... I'm bad at guessing , also , i thought it was a throwing hatchet , never seen a tool like that in france ! Would be happy to brag about having a tool from usa tho 😎
Good luck to all that want to win Looks great I had one at one time and have no idea what's happened to it over the years and would be nice to own another one by winning this one Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Would love to win the crate tool for my son. We have been restoring tools for a short time. We go to auctions and get tools but on our budget we can't get the good ones. He has collected 2 crate tools and cleaned them up but they have cracks in them. So that is why I would like it for him. We have fun anyway. Where did you get that set of grinding tips? They might be past my budget. Thanks
Looks like a very useful tool. However, I would have done the paint in black. flat black most likely. and polished the lettering part too. all that polished metal against flat black would look great. besides, like about 50 percent of men, I can't see green right, it generally just looks gray to me. let me win it, and I'll fix that the way I'd like it! lol fat chance of that, I never win anything.
While I hoping you'd just spray it two-tones of Rust-Oleum I suppose turning it into a gorgeous to-die-for tool is acceptable. (kidding) I never knew such a tool existed before seeing this video.
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Excellent job on the restoration. I'm actually from New Haven, same as the tool and recently lost a leg due to an infection. This is inspiration to get me working in my own shop restoring my dad's and grandpa's tools. Cheers, Pete.
Sorry to hear that, and happy I've given you some inspiration!
That is one nice piece. I like seeing people taking old things and bring new life to them. I like buying old things that are different. I have not really seen one like the one you have.
Thank you 😊
Good morning, excellent restoration, you must be proud of your work, giving new life to tools that deserve to be brought back and used again, keep the good job
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Love the color you used. Been watching your channel for a long time. Have commented several times. I used to have a huge amount of tools. I sold everything including all my furniture and house. Went on the road in an RV for a year. But couldn’t do it anymore. Now living in an apartment and miss all my tools everyday.
Thanks for sharing!! and yes you are one of a handful of subscribers that I recognize in the comments 😎
Great job 👍. I could really use that tool, I an 68 years old and trying to build up a collection of tools to keep busy while I am retired because of arthritis. Thank you for your great videos !👍👍👍
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Good job. That was quite a transformation! I never would have guessed green but I like it. I have a small collection of these crate openers. I even have one that is solid brass. It was so tarnished and filthy that I didn’t even realize it until I started cleaning it. None of mine look as good as yours though. I guess I’ll have to go back and try again. Take care 😃👍🏼
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It is an extremely useful tool. You made it into a showstopper! If I delt with crates all day, I would die for one!
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Beautiful piece of work. I currently scratch around for pocket money disassembling old pallets and making up birdtables, garden furniture and the like for neighbours and friends. I would like to say that would be a great addition to my tool collection but to be honest it is so nice I doubt I could bring myself to use it in anger, so choose your recipient carefully.
As ever, keep up the good work,
Dave
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Fantastic restoration and excellent choice of color. Love the way Hammerite paint looks on old tools. I would be proud and honored to add such a restored tool to my meager collection.
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Awesome restoration. A shining example of how to fix it and restore it . Stay safe 😷.ATVB from a fellow Brit expat now living in sunny Malaysia 😎😷🇲🇾
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Love the finish that you have made, the only thing I don’t like is the fact that I don’t have the skill or patience to do any of this, but love watching how they are done and especially the results
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Old school tools rock! Grandpa had a couple of these I remember as a child. He had a lanyard tied to them for when he’d take one out of his pouch, so he couldn’t lose it, nor could anyone borrow it. He used to say “if you put your tools down and walk away, they’ll grow feet and you’ll never see them again” lol. Words of wisdom right there. Nice work! 👍🏼👍🏼 from this guy!
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That is a spectacular finish. Love your work and the tool. We don’t see any of these in Melbourne, Australia. I even love the colour. So would my wife. Green is her favourite colour. 👍🇦🇺
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Great restoration once again! Congratulations to the lucky subscriber that wins this beautiful tool!
Keep up the great videos!
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Quite the perfectionist sir! Lovely detailed restoration! 👏
Obviously I'd love to win this but I'm just happy watching the videos TBQH! 🤣
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Very nice work! Hope the recipient enjoys it Have one like it I restored, but not the mirror polish, as I use it around the farm. A working tool. Yours I would put away and just admire now and again.
Thank you 😊
Very Cool.... Thank you for saying what the thing is. I just found one in my father's old tool set from Grumman Aerospace. (But it's broken, one of the teeth snapped off the nail puller) Had no idea what it was but now it makes sense. I also have two shipping crates in my garage that held ejection seats for an F-14.
That's awesome 😊
I see that you've restored an old cedar shingle roofers tool, nice finish, well done, look forward to your next video
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Excellent restoration work. 👍👍👍👍👍 I have a similar model, only the handle is made of wood.
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This would be so perfect for what I do! I hand carve unique small pieces and often need a hatchet or pry bar, which I don't own, to break apart wood. Most tools are too big for my wall hands. This looks like it was made for me.
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That was a beautiful restoration. I hope it goes to a home that appreciates the beauty of the piece & the skill of your talent.
Thank you 😊
I just purchased one of these to restore. Thanks for some great ideas and continued inspiration...!!!
That's awesome 😊
Extremely nice restoration. Thank you.
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@@FixitRestoreit. Thank you!!!
Excellent video and awesome restoration, thanks for the chance at winning this beautiful crate hammer.
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Great video of showing something so mundane becoming beautiful like the Butterfly emerging from it's cocoon .Would like to win it not to use but to hang on the wall as a show piece.
Thank you 😊
Dude, you did an absolutely awesome restoration on that thing.
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Extremely nice tool, great addition to anyone’s collection of fine tools
Thank you 😊
Great job!
I am picking up an assortment of old tools tomorrow.
Going to get a gallon of Evaporust and try my hand at restoration.
Older tools were made with better metal than the cheap Chinese stuff you can get today.
Would love to win this classic tool.
Awesome 👍😊
Beautiful restoration. Fellow Texan here, out in West Texas. Having restored quite a few axes over years, to a mirror polish, I know first hand how much time and effort went into your restoration. It looks quick on video, but the reality is, it generally takes hours of relentless hard work.
Hope you will enter me into the contest. This is the kind of tool I'd love to pass down to one of my grand kids along with a note on the history of how it was restored. Keep up the good work!
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I sure would love to PRY that beautifully restored tool from you.. It would look CRATE in my outdoor / camping bag!
Very good lol!
Very good lol!
I've never seen something so shiny and gorgeous and I like it 👍👍👍😎
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Beautiful restoration it’s to beautiful to use as a tool!
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A short and very effective resto on a tool that has many uses. It would be good for opening the occasional crate that I receive
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I couldn't 'pry' myself away from this video as you really 'nailed' it again. I could see myself holding it (you know, because of the mirrored finish). Great work
Ha! Lol!
That's an awesome job you did it's just beautiful. If you keep this up I'm going to get inspired but seriously thanks for your videos their helping me through a rough patch, just what I needed.
Thank you so much! Hang in there bud!
That’s a good looking hammhatchpuller. It is considered a wrench in many parts of the world. Love to own that thing!
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The finish was magnificent! I liked the inlay look of the green paint! Quality work!
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A beautifully polished and presented crate opening tool.
A tool that I would love to own and one that I would proudly wield while performing all my crate-opening endeavors.
Thank you 😊
Very nice restoration nice bit of green & perfect polish..👍🏻🇺🇸💕🇬🇧
I’m a Roofer so it would be a nice addition to my hand tools for me
And it saves me buying a new one from bloody China 🇨🇳
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I've always wanted one of these! Unfortunately all I ever see is cheap foreign junk! Nice restoration!
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Great looking bit of kit. It looks so versatile and would probably be a tool that is always to hand. It would be great to win it
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Great job I've never seen one before.
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Absolutely beautiful restoration! I'd love to win that piece of art!!
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Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya
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Being a retired Tool and Die maker, I can see quality. That’s what you got here. Beautiful roofers hammer!
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Super renovation of this fantastic tool 🤘 best regards
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Superb finish! Really nice the green paint applied in the handle.
👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆 fro Brazil 🇧🇷
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Awesome job mate. I'd love to own one. I believe it may be an old school roofing hammer
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That is awesome that you can use that is scrap metal into a beautiful polished tool thought I wish I could do that that
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Now that's a tool any guy would be proud of.
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I own around 200 hammers but not one like this. Awesome
Cool 😎
Loved this video. Always wondered how the experts took a nasty looking piece of metal to such a mirror finish. I would love to be the winner of it but whoever wins will certainly be getting a nice piece of art. Good luck to us all!
Thank you 😊
Very nicely done. I'll have to see if I can find one
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This would actually be nice to put into a fire kit for camping and bushcraft. Very nice
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love the green ,i believe that is an older sheetrock hammer or hatchet ,would be proud to own it
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Es una pieza muy bonita y utilitaria ese verde le quedó excelente. Me gusta que trabajes directo con los esmeriles. Desde Venezuela ciudad Maracaibo.
Thank you! The green did turn out good!
I inherited one exactly like that from my grand father but it was unfortunately stolen during a house brake,
to get one again will be awesome
I can’t win an argument with a teddy bear, so I’ll simply say “ Another great restoration! Keep them coming “ 👍🏼✌🏼
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Hot Pink with electric bue accents would have been better colours, but other than that, looks awesome.
Thank you 😊, and that would be unusual
Turned out fantastic. Good job
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Beautiful restoration, love the colour
Thank you!
7:00 you know my favorite part
@LDS SG yeppers
I tried to word it different, but I still heard his accent reading it lol!
hello beautiful restoration, I wish good luck to all
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Fantastic job. you are truly a pro.
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Pink!!! Nah, I would have picked green since its your logo color lol but I've watched the whole video so my guess dont count. Good job on the finish, just broke my mirror at home so ill be needing that to replace it hahaha keep it up!
Lol, thank you !
I mean you can definitely wrench on some crates with that, so I'll allow it. :P I'd love to have that, but I don't actually have a use for it currently, I have no shop or anything at the moment. It should go to someone that needs it.
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Really cool. Im gonna let the others have their shot at winning this 👍
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I knew it was gonna be some shade of green. Lol. Looks amazing and I would love to have it hanging up in my shop
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What a wonderful multipurpose tool !! Small and light weight but very hand and durable !! What a mirror polish as well very nice !! Only one question I noticed the original makers name on the handle but wasn't able to read it . Who made it please ? And GREAT work on this useful tool it looks WONDERFUL !!👍👍
Thank you 😊! It says The Belden machine Co
I would love to own a tool like that. the way it polishes to a mirror finish when it touches the buffing wheel is awesome.i like you channel my favourite video is the tiny rock/masonry hammer.looking forward to the next video 😃👍
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I remove asbestos for a living and this tool would b awesome but if it were 1.5 or 2 times the size would b even better. I need to make one of these for sure. Can't wait to find a scrap peice of steel hat big.
Wanted to add - lightning was my nick name when I was young and the 48 is the year I was born. I’ve told you several times that you do great work.
thank you!
That looks sweet, amazing shine . I would love to win that
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Looks great 👍 I guess you can’t take the Brit 🇬🇧 out of the man.. 🙂.. He went with the British racing green 😎
Who wouldn’t want this tool? 🤷🏻♂️
I know I do 🤞
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Looks like a old cedar shack hammer. Should be dark green
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I remember these from when I was a kid. To have a hatchet AND a hammer was cool enough. We did not know what the other notches were for but it made the tool even cooler amongst your friends. I like what you did with the green inset. I was trying to guess what color you would use. What we older guys (I am 69) would call candy apple green makes this tool pop! Very good job cleaning up the mold lines and thankfully the rust was mostly surface rust. To take an antique and give it new life is very satisfying I'm sure. And you don't get to the level of polish you achieved by saying "Well that's good enough". Very well done indeed. This tool was an original 'multi tool': crate tool, crate hammer, crate opener? For unpacking crates it must have been very useful and maybe still is. Could not guess as to its age. Possibly older than me I am sure. To own this tool restored to this level would be very gratifying to me. It would look good with the few other antiques I was allowed to 'decorate' the family room/man cave with. Would be interesting to know how many people would remember it let alone know its intended use. The hand tools I have kept of my father's and both grandfathers I consider users and keep most in an old 'hip roof' tool box of my dad's. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to give this tool a new home.
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Good video as always. I like the mirror shine on that tool would be cool to win
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A tool for every man that doesn't know a hammer from a screwdriver. A favorite of ice sculptors. I would like to win the tool
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Yay your PO Box is open!
Yes!
The tool looks very good, you really know how to restore things, you did a good job.
If I'm lucky enough to win it, I'll give it to my father as a Christmas present. Good luck to everyone, the luckiest one to win it ! ; )
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WOW nice job keep up the good work.
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Figure i might as well enter for a chance. I dont have a cool story or anything about the tool, im just a guy in his 20s who likes the idea of having nice tools to pass on to his kids in older age.
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I guess 11 people disliked a perfect restoration. If I could give an eleven likes I would.
I've learned to not worry too much , everybody has an opinion I guess!
У меня почти такой же есть, русский только) тоже реставрировал. Топор мультитул
Awesome!
I thought it would be red ... I'm bad at guessing , also , i thought it was a throwing hatchet , never seen a tool like that in france ! Would be happy to brag about having a tool from usa tho 😎
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Good luck to all that want to win
Looks great I had one at one time and have no idea what's happened to it over the years and would be nice to own another one by winning this one
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
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@@FixitRestoreit You're welcome
You did a really nice job on that crate tool 👍 😊 (not an entry thanks)
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Wow! That thing is super cool looking. What is the teardrop shaped opening for? I would love to win this!
I think it's a tack puller and thank you !
Another beauty.
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Beautiful job sir 👍
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Green I like it very much I was born and raised in CT. were that tool was made.
Awesome 😊
Daha fazla restorasyon videosu gelsin
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Can it be called a restoration if it looks way better than it did from the start? Gorgeous. Would look good hanging from my pack on the trail.
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Would love to win the crate tool for my son. We have been restoring tools for a short time. We go to auctions and get tools but on our budget we can't get the good ones. He has collected 2 crate tools and cleaned them up but they have cracks in them. So that is why I would like it for him. We have fun anyway. Where did you get that set of grinding tips? They might be past my budget. Thanks
I just added a link to amazon , they are really cheap and excellent! Scroll down in the description and you'll see it !
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Looks like a very useful tool. However, I would have done the paint in black. flat black most likely. and polished the lettering part too. all that polished metal against flat black would look great. besides, like about 50 percent of men, I can't see green right, it generally just looks gray to me. let me win it, and I'll fix that the way I'd like it! lol fat chance of that, I never win anything.
oh you did polish the lettering, it didn't show in some angles. it reflected the paint.
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What is that thing used for? Is it general purpose or is it specialized in any way?
Originally it was used for opening shipping crates 😉
Awesome.
Glad you think so!
While I hoping you'd just spray it two-tones of Rust-Oleum I suppose turning it into a gorgeous to-die-for tool is acceptable. (kidding) I never knew such a tool existed before seeing this video.
👍🏼 there are lots of different types, including inset wooden handles 😎