Perfect Handles

[johnsironsanctuary]

Here is my modest collection of PH wrenches.  Not trying to catch up to Papaw, I just think that HD Smith made very attractive tools. The top two big guys are new.

[Wrenchmensch]

An excellent start!

Keep an eye out for metal-handled Perfect Handle monkey and pipe wrenches (see examples below). The "SIS" boss on the two monkey wrenches stands for Semper Idem Steel (Always the same steel).

Also look for Trimont-made and Russwin Registered Perfect Handle wooden-handled monkey wrenches. The larger SIS wrench, for example, was made by Trimont Manufacturing using the Perfect Handle branding.  It was used by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N RR).

[scottg]

Oooooooooh I really like that little pipe wrench!!!
Nothing wrong with the monkeys,
 but I think when we are all long gone and another 100 years of wrench collecting has gone under the bridge??
 The PH pipe wrenches will be found to be the scarcer pattern of the adjustable pH wrenches. I don't see near so many of those.
   yours Scott 

[Wrenchmensch]

You like it because .........

[RedVise]

Oooooooooh I really like that little pipe wrench!!!

Yep, me too !  Is that a 6" ?    It would look very nice in my drawer of 6" pipe wrenches.

Brian L.

[rusty]

You have a drawer full of 6" pipe wrenches?

Hmm, how do we *know* you have a drawer full?

It's not like we have a picture......[hint hint]

...I do like the proportions on the little PH wrenches, they seem well balanced...

[Wrenchmensch]

Yes, the smaller SIS is a 6-inch monkey wrench.

[RedVise]

Dang, I'm getting called out !!

Here's a pic, I just dont see a Perfect Handle in there anywhere...

Brian L.

[bunger]

Here's a close up of the SIS marking





I got a few HD Smith wrenches

[scottg]

Here is my own 6" club. What here is left, that is.
 I sold off about 1/2 of them in a fit of insanity a few years back.

 Also the last handle fills I did. The big one are no harder to do than the little ones. Might even be a little easier.
 yours Scott

[Wrenchmensch]

An 18-inch Perfect Handle pipe wrench I found in a dark corner of an antique store years ago.  There are bigger ones out there, and I may find a 24-inch someday, one never knows. Scott, looks like the bottom one in your picture above is also an 18-incher.

[Neals]

Does anyone know what the largest H. D. Smith perfect handle monkey wrench is? Does anyone have a 21" or larger?

[scottg]

Mine is 18" too. (sniff)
 yours Scott

[Wrenchmensch]

Here are two of my favorite 6-inch adjustables.  I found the WH B&C when I first started collecting wrenches.  The little Meadville I found in the last year.

[rusty]

>Does anyone have a 21" or larger?

I don't have one, but there is such a monster
http://www.greatplanestrading.com/HUM11/HUM11_601AC-tb.html