What is your oldest and best tool?
 

40 years old.....BF whacker, cheater bar. From my uncle, RIP.

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Used to use the phillips screwdriver from my 356 tool kit to work on computers... Nice joke about a $100 screw driver.

Then the wife used it and lost it.

Not my oldest tool....
One of my first purchases after I bought my house was an Estwing English pattern claw hammer.
Used it for my renos, garage, fence building etc.
Then the dumb ass tile guy I hired decided it would be fine to bust up concrete with my hammer.
What a dickweed. Took the polish off of it and generally screwed it up.

I have some pretty old tools - 100 year old hand planes come to mind as a favorite. Just used an old floor scraper the other day. I enjoy well made, old tools.

Lost a couple mini swiss army knives to the TSA. My bad. Still not in Guantanamo yet.
First one had a light and tweezers.
Scissors were strong enough to cut through toenails.
Blade can open any plastic packaging with ease.

Grandfather's hammer.

What is my oldest and best tool?....

I've had it since birth.

At adolescence it was obvious that it would give me no peace so I resolved to give it no rest.

That's what came to mind.....

The Yellow Pages. Whenever I have a really tough job, I pull out the old Yellow Pages.

Is it ALWAYS hard and up to the task 24/7?:rolleyes:

Didn't take long for this to hit the dirt.

I have one that is 57 years old.
I can't use it like I could when I was in my 20's.

Besides the obvious, it would be my Vaughn 24oz framing hammer. Built my first garage with it and many other projects. Both tools have pounded home a lot of nails, still have the original warranty.

I have a double-bladed axe that belonged to my great-grandfather. The handle has been replaced once, so only the head remains of the original tool. Still, it's functional and I use it on occasion.

Not my oldest...sold my work horses when I left CA in '08...bought new last year.
Floor standing drill press & an 8 inch jawed Wilton vice.
Hard to imagine not having either.

My metric socks set and socket wrench is a set I bought in 1970 and bought my first car. I broke the 14 mm socket so it is the only one that has been replaced. Those socket are the ones I use anytime I need just a standard socket and not a deep or SAE socket.

The sockets are a Japanese brand made in Japan.

I've wanted a caliper. spreader vice for a while so I had an old boss pick it up for me when he went back home to Germany. This thing has been used for a ton of stuff besides brakes.

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I forgot...I still have my Craftsman/Sears 1/2" - 3/8" drive socket set, metric & SAE in its original metal box from 1971.
Never replaced any sockets so far...have disassembled both drives for cleaning & lube.
The set has a 1/2" drive 10 mm socket. :eek:

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This was my grandfathers push drill from when he was a carpenter in the 40s & 50s. Great tool to use when I'm repairing some stuff at my buildings.

The vice that I have mounted to my workbench is from my maternal grandfather. It was in his garage from the days I was a little kid.

Many times I have thought about getting a bigger vice but this one is the only tool I got from that grandfather.

I have a wooden tool chest from the other grandfather that my dad used to dig into when he was a little kid. I believe it was from my great grand father. It is made with hand made nails. It was covered in sheet metal long before I was born. It is rather beat up but I got it in that condition. I would love to have an expert look at it and tell me more about it. I doubt it is worth much if any money but I would not sell it anyway.

Pretty much all my tools were bought new around the time I started driving. Dad is hoarding all the good old tools in his shop still!

Probably the oldest tools are in the toolkit in my 944, and that's an '86!

Still have a 'John-Deere' 9/16" double box / starter wrench for removing the inside bolts on early seventies inline diesel 6's. It looks like an exaggerated "S"with 2 different angles on opposing ends. I cannot tell you how many times I have used that in other, almost impossible situations over the many years. I bought it when I was a Junior in high-school, working at the local JD tractor dealer.

If you worked there, you could buy anything (almost) as an employee, get a substantial discount and they would deduct it from your check spread-out over as many weeks as you wanted. I remember working for peanuts and had them split the cost of that wrench over 2 paychecks!