"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." - Robert Hughes
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What a WOW collection. The Hilary Klein pieces are beautiful.How long have you been at this?Note to Bob: Just send the trophy to Lewill2 and we can call it a day.
Jim Keats as well as Hilary Klein make their wrenches in batches. They make/made one style at a time and they usually don't re-make them again. I believe I got one of the last ones he had of the Hawes run. He didn't have the large knurled screw that locks the head in position on his miniature. For some reason he had a spring loaded ball detent setscrew in that location. I had Jim Leamy (a well known tool restorer and wood plane maker) make a locking screw for mine. I think my miniature Hawes is the only one that has that feature. As far as I know there aren't any miniature Hawes available at this time.