Tool Talk

What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: superzstuff on February 10, 2013, 12:48:05 PM

Title: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: superzstuff on February 10, 2013, 12:48:05 PM: My latest find, two sizes of a Crescent swivel handle screwdriver. The tip was broken on the small one, but I was glad to find the two sizes in the same box! How hard to find are these? I have never seen any, but that doesn't mean much. Very well made, heavy, and handle swivels with a healthy snap. Both marked Crescent but with a different style.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 10, 2013, 02:39:45 PM: There seem always to be some on That Auction Site with the E in the Name; but I found my first in the wild last summer (never having known before finding it that they existed). Someone here - I've misplaced the name in that junkpile I call my memory - has two of the three sizes and lusts after the third; he may be along in a minute with information.

Alloy Artifacts has some information: http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/crescent-tool.html (http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/crescent-tool.html), and scroll down a bit.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: superzstuff on February 10, 2013, 03:17:16 PM: Thanks, if I had just scrolled down on that page back when I listed my double ended adjustable wrench, I would have seen the screwdriver!
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: mikeswrenches on February 10, 2013, 04:58:41 PM: I have one of the 5 in. Ones with the forged in marks. Picked it up in the wild somewhere.

Mike
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: geneg on February 10, 2013, 05:22:48 PM: I have 2 of the 3, have to check which. Really would like to have the third just because it exists. I think I also posted an original sales ad for them. Bill & I discussed them quite a few months ago. Also the relative scale of the tip sizes vs lengths on vintage screwdrivers. There was some sort of logic behind it,since most brands were close.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: john k on February 10, 2013, 08:06:53 PM: I have never seen one in the wild, so don't have one in my, uh, pile. Finding two at once? You better go buy a lottery ticket!
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: amecks on February 11, 2013, 12:35:19 PM: I have one of those in good condition - probably the smaller one in your pic - they are very well made.
Al.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: Plyerman on February 11, 2013, 06:46:13 PM: Funny, I just saw one of those yesterday in an old advertisement (upper left):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1930-Ad-Crescent-Tool-Smith-Hemenway-Hardware-ORIGINAL-ADVERTISING-/370741224866?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5651e625a2

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1930-Ad-Crescent-Tool-Smith-Hemenway-Hardware-ORIGINAL-ADVERTISING-/00/s/MTQwNlgxMDAw/z/KC8AAOxymiVQ~J-H/$(KGrHqNHJEYFDy8r9uqSBQ+J-HGmcw~~60_57.JPG)
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: superzstuff on February 11, 2013, 07:31:38 PM: Nice ad Plyerman, funny but at same auction I got screwdrivers they had a nailpuller like one in center of your ad and auctioneer didn't know what it was. I had used a Stanley puller like that when I was working to tear apart skids, so I knew it well. It went for $35, so I didn't buy it.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 12, 2013, 09:46:01 PM: Nice ad. Thanks. What's that articulated jobbie in the bottom right corner?
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: mvwcnews on February 13, 2013, 08:21:31 AM: There are two in the ad; the one in the lower right & the one below the hacksaw towards upper center are both wire grips to pull and tighten wire.
Title: Re: Crescent Screwdrivers
Post by: lbgradwell on February 13, 2013, 10:57:03 AM: Quote from: mvwcnews on February 13, 2013, 08:21:31 AM
There are two in the ad; the one in the lower right & the one below the hacksaw towards upper center are both wire grips to pull and tighten wire.

+1. The top one is called a Haven's Grip, while the bottom tool is called a Buffalo Grip.