why do people pay so much for wooden machinist tool boxes?

[Wyoming]

Most were purchased from a tool dealer out on Long Island for scrap steel pricing...shipping was more than the purchase price. You really don't wanna see the 'full picture' inventory...

[mikecwik]

i dont want to see it. im grumpy enough as it is.

[vicegrip]

Or my one-Item Christmas List !!
Can I have it Mommy ? Please Pretty Please, I'll take out the trash every morning!
An and do my homework before Supper !!
Please O' Please.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-Spdl-30-...item2a154fbe3c
Even Wood can't look this Gorgeous

[TonyMo]

Google the Henry Studley tool chest (there is a wikipedia page too)

Frank

That is amazing!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QaFTI2F9c

[Wyoming]

Phil, that Giddings & Lewis is just a hair too specific for even my tool lust...maybe a nice horizontal mill instead. Still looking for a small Clausing horz. and basic surface grinder and then I just may call it good on the major purchases. Killer already told me I better outlast her because she'll be dammned if she goes to the effort to sell all my tools if I don't.

[hockeyguynick]

There's days where I regret droppin 7 grand on my Snap-On box, as I havent been a mechanic in over 2 years, and still paying for the thing.... But ya buy nice quality tools, and a nice chest, and take care of it all and it will last you a lifetime. That is money well spent.

[Roger]

If it helps you keep track of your tools so they don't get lost then maybe snapon tools are worth the extreme price.

[aametalmaster]

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Even Wood can't look this Gorgeous

I ran a Giddings and Lewis HBM just like that one a few years ago. Got some pics someplace...Bob

[aametalmaster]

I have my grandpas wooden tool box. It still has everything he used in it. Don't know where mine will end up when i am gone prob ebay LOL...Bob

[vicegrip]

I ran a Giddings and Lewis HBM just like that one a few years ago. Got some pics someplace...Bob

Pics !?!? I'm game, bring 'em on.

I had the opportunity of a liketime to run the G&L s at Tower (formerly A.O. Smith)
just as it was all edging into the coffin for ever more.
They had Morse spindles, the Big Gun had 360 RPM. That's all.
Pre-Carbide era dinosuar......... BUT alot of fun.

vg

[Centurion83]

They think its a welder.....

[vicegrip]

Before flatscreen TV ..........
The "last units with a TUBE" came in a simple black plastic coffin.

I remember TV's in my childhood with stunning beautifull cabinets OF WOOD!
Brass hinges on the ones with doors. Cloth overlay in inset pannels. etc etc

All tools need is a safe effective container. No?

The "eye" however needs Candy !

Hence the Gerstners .........

[SidecarFlip]

Somehow, I missed this thread. I read it all especially the posts about 'I don't like wood tool boxes' and 'I like my Snapon toolbox.

Interesting. I have a Snap-On roll around and it is a nice toolbox for mechanics tool, not for precision machinist tools however.

What's not to like about a quality American made wooden chest, made for the discerning craftsman to keep his prized (and very expensive possessions ...aka: precision tools in).

I have 2 Gerstners, belong to the Gerstner Owners Club (one of my chests was featured in their magazine a few years ago btw). My wife has a Gerstner solid oak, hand made jewelry chest too. I just happen to own a LSStarrett Signature Honduras Mahogany Gerstner that my dad bought me when I started me apprentiship at Standard Products, Cleveland, Ohio when I graduated from high school. It took me a little longer to complete my apprestiship because I had to take a couple years off for Vietnamn.

I still have the original bill of sale for the LSS Chest from Production Tool and Supply and it's never seen any tools inside save for a LSS Last Word Indicator Set. My dad died while I was overseas and I put the chest away and got another.... Of course another Gerstner but in Oak. That chest today, sits on my bench in my machine shop, filled with very expensive tools. The LSS Chest is put away, it actually houses about a third of my Zippo lighter collection including a couple solid gold Zippo's.

Gerstners are flat out beautiful examples of real American craftsmanship, like fine furniture.

Finally, a Gerstner isn't a tool box, it's a chest. Don't insult the heritage or the craftsmanship by referring to it as a 'tool box'. That is an insult.....

[mikecwik]

i actually put one tool chest into service. i put the stuff i dont use much in there as i still don't really care for it. it sits on top of my tool box. i put some tools in the other tool chest and gave it to my nephew. he is 12 and just loved it. i think he took the tools out and is using it for art supplies though.

[vicegrip]

Somehow, I missed this thread. I read it all especially the posts about 'I don't like wood tool boxes' and 'I like my Snapon toolbox.
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Gerstners are flat out beautiful examples of real American craftsmanship, like fine furniture.

Finally, a Gerstner isn't a tool box, it's a chest. Don't insult the heritage or the craftsmanship by referring to it as a 'tool box'. That is an insult.....

"What's not to like about a quality American made wooden chest,"
That's a good question.
I don't like drawers that can be pulled all the way out.
I don't have the type of job, that affords me time to care for a wooden "tool-box"
Tool-box to me is as fine a term as is Garage. I keep my car in a Garage, not an Auto-Condominium.

BUT in my ballanced view a Wooden Chest is T!Ts for sure.
vg