Stanley® Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic PowerLock® Tape Rule

STANLEY BLACK & DECKER POWERLOCK TAPE RULE

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – March 8, 2013 – Stanley® Tools, a leading manufacturer of hand tools, is celebrating 50 years since the launch of the popular PowerLock® tape measure line. To commemorate this anniversary, Stanley® is releasing a limited edition series of five tape measures featuring unique designs dedicated to important highlights in the Powerlock® [...]

ROE Steel Measuring Tape

Dodd Measuring Tape

My friend Dodd Talbot dropped this tape off at my shop while he was towing what could have been the biggest boat I’ve ever seen from Orlando, Florida to Whitefish, Montana. It just about killed his transmission, but that’s a story for another day. The tape was his grandfather’s and he knows of my affinity [...]

Dunlap 10″ Pipe Wrench

Dunlap Pipe Wrench2

A friend brought this wrench to me a few weeks ago. He recently had to move his mom into an assisted-living facility and was starting the process of cleaning, organizing, and removing her possessions from his childhood home. That’s never an easy task, obviously. When he found this and some other old hand tools in [...]

News – Common Thread: Craftsman, American Pickers, and ToolSkool

I got a press release titled: THE CRAFTSMAN® BRAND HITS THE ROAD WITH “PICKER” FRANK FRITZ IN SEARCH OF AMERICA’S TREASURES AND CLASSIC TOOLS.  By itself, that press release would have been newsworthy enough to publish on Toolskool, but lately I’ve heard a lot about American Pickers, because the building where Toolskool has its offices [...]