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General Category => General Discussion => Heads Up => Topic started by: rusty on August 31, 2011, 05:32:06 PM

Title: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: rusty on August 31, 2011, 05:32:06 PM

Papaw...I think you got a deal on yours...this fellow wants $1200!!!!


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Crescent-Tool-Retail-Display-Sign-8-Boards-/150641822994?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2312f3cd12

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: Lewill2 on August 31, 2011, 07:01:09 PM

No pipe wrenches with that set.

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: Papaw on August 31, 2011, 07:04:49 PM

WOW! He is certainly proud of them! He has more panels with more tools pictured than mine have.
Yes, no pipe wrenches there, and none in the spaces on my board. I have never seen a Crescent pipe wrench, and find none for sale anywhere.

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: Lewill2 on September 01, 2011, 07:32:18 AM

Have you researched if Crescent took over somebody else and maybe they never changed the name on the wrenches. I keep looking also and I have never seen any like pictured on your boards.

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: Papaw on September 01, 2011, 09:05:16 AM

I'm just assuming that they did sell them since they are pictured on the display with the correct markings, part numbers, and hand written resale prices.

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on September 04, 2011, 09:36:56 PM

I still think back to the garage /shop sale in Shell Rock where I missed out on a set of three Crescent pipe wrenches by a day.  The seller swore they were Crescents and commented that he'd never seen another set.  Oh well, maybe they do exist.;....

Papaw, I could go back to the shop where I got that thing and ask them where they picked it it.  I remember it being from somewhere in Northern Iowa and maybe some future estate sales up there would have some.....

Yeah, I maybe under the influence......iron oxide and PB Blaster.........

DM&FS

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: Papaw on September 05, 2011, 10:01:29 AM

I just bought a Crescent ad showing the pipe wrenches.
Sure, if you get back up that way, ask around.

Title: Re: Crescent Tool Board - Ack!
Post by: OilyRascal on April 30, 2012, 06:37:56 AM

Having a need for Thorsen pipe wrenches myself, I've been keeping my eyes peeled for the both  of us.  I've inspected every pipe wrench I've come across for months now, and I've seen neither.  Around here (old oil money central) you find pipe wrenches everywhere and a dime a dozen. 

I did see a rather strange (to me) old Craftsman pipe wrench in a pawn shop Saturday as I was being rushed to get out of the store so they could close.  I believe it was a 12" with some sort of circular (moving) lower jaw and spring....like no pipe wrench design I've seen.  It looked like something between a basin wrench and a pipe wrench.  I've already regretted not bringing it home.

Rest assured I look at every single one I come across to see if it is Crescent or Thorsen.  We'll find them.