Thanks for reminding me guys. There will only ever be one, Studley!!
The thing sure makes the rounds, doesn't it? Everybody get a turn with it. I think I first saw it in Popular Mechanics long before FWW was conceived, and now PWW too.
I am glad its still in private hands myself. Museums tend to lock things up in the basement and nobody ever sees it again. The Studley chest was loaned to the Smithsonian for years but, like everything else, eventually got stuffed in the basement to make way for Mrs Snootworth Bucksbottom's tea cozy collection, who happened to be a major benefactor of the museum. Museums have to go where the money is. Always the problem.
My own fantasy is to build a smaller version similar to Studley's chest.
The smallest tools still capable of full sized work, and packed for portable.
I am still rounding up and refurbishing old ones, and building new tools from scratch.
I'll probably never finish, but I do hang onto the thought.
My homemade brace (5" swing), was actually made as the toolbox's handle. I wanted a nice handle and a detachable brace for small drills and driving screws, etc.
The head snaps off and with a stub in the socket, it locks into brackets to make the top handle for the chest.
here is the rest of the story.
http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/Brace11.htm If you further poke around my little webpage, you will find other small fancy tools. (not the miniatures, just smaller than average).
All for the box ........ someday.
yours Scott
