Old Stuff You Still Use ?

[A-Bone]

Originally Posted by HamboneSlim

that's a hell of a use for some tiger maple....

[Murphy Slaw]

Originally Posted by A-Bone

that's a hell of a use for some tiger maple....

I was wondering about that myself....

[Solace]

The computer that I'm using to type this message is a damn antique, relatively speaking. Slow as hell but it still works to browse web and send e-mails.

Later,
M

[H96669]

Originally Posted by Murphy Slaw

I was wondering about that myself....

And me too but sure beats the heck out of using it as firewood. Had to point that out to a friend a few years back.Birdseye too.... Way too late for use once split...!

No patent date on my best wood clamps, looks like rock maple and couldn't pass at $30.00 back then. May have to use them soon, my 1898 rocking chair is loosening up a little and then I also get to use the very old (1910-20) Canadian made Stanley "Yankee" screwdriver, if just for the kick of using them fine old tools.

Oooops.....that modern tool is out of place there.But it is hanging off something much older.

[LoFlow]

Here's an old Prentiss vise I still use. It was made around 1903 or late 1890's. I haven't been able to pin it down exactly. I love this old stuff but I hate to say that some of the "old stuff" that I have... I bought brand new.

[LoFlow]

And one more cool old thing.

[Mad_Jack]

Originally Posted by H96669

Lots of that around here.

How old do you want it and comparisons to the new ones???? The "new" Jumbo 1905 pat.1906 US made or my new Canadian made "circa 2005".

I'll use whichever is closest but the Jumbo has more punch and better leverage. That 100 years old Douglas Fir is sure hard, nails are hard to grab and pull.

Don't buy the chinee ones......

Man, that Jumbo made me go out to the garage and check mine: it says Giant, No 7. Newer than yours, I think, but looks virtually identical. I inherited mine from my late father, who had been a carpenter/construction worker for over 40 years. He retired about '67 and I've had it since probably '87 or so.

[Mad_Jack]

Originally Posted by ShadyRascal

In 1975 for my second year of bird hunting, my Dad and I went to Sportsman's Surplus in Spokane and bought a used Ithaca model 37 Featherweight 20 gauge.



Shot some quail with it last fall.

Those Ithacas were nice guns; my late brother had one in 16 gauge that he swore by for partridge. I think his eldest son still uses it.

[BHW]

I've got an 84 year old Winchester model 1890.

[DirtyOldMan]

Originally Posted by BHW

I've got an 84 year old Winchester model 1890.

I have a 96 year old model 1912, Just enough math to make my head hurt.

[welder]

1951 russian sks. Just an internet pic but the same as mine. and my cooey model 75 .22 from the 1940's maybe?

[Motornoggin]

I live in a 113 year old house.

I'm nearly done with the restoration/remodel.

[Mr. Vintage]

Pretty much my whole existence falls into the category of "old stuff". It's fun seeing all the pictures in the thread, particularly of stuff I have an example of (Winchester, tools, Schwinns, old house, etc.) Notably I still use this regularly, the same age that I am and source of my screen name thanks to other ADV inmates:

[H96669]

Originally Posted by welder

and my cooey model 75 .22 from the 1940's maybe?

I looked into dating my "tube fed" Cooey, not easy as they don't have serial numbers and very little on the net on Cooeys. Canadian guns so...

I hope it shoots as nice and straight as mine. Just like when Grandpa bought it in the late 50's, that is a few years before they were bought by Winchester.

[Mendodave]

Husqvarna chainsaw bought with my first paycheck out of high school

just cut down a tree with it last weekend.

it needed a butterfly valve about 15 years ago.

just won't quit.

mendo