Knives

[Gfish]

A Dad's or Gramps bottom of the tool box type of find.  "M. KLEIN & SONS" "CHICAGO".
Absolutely nothing fancy, not even a name on the handle, but seems well made. A nice brass blade lock and the bottom 2/3rds of the screwdriver blade is sharpened for...scraping?
Gotta try and clean it up.

[foakes]

Nice old knife, Greg —

That is an Electricians knife.

Klein is a good name in quality tools.

Best, Fred

[Ron Jones]

I had one of those growing up Greg, my grandfather taught me a lot abut wiring with it. The Scooped out edge of the tool blade is for stripping insulation, the sharp edge of the tool blade is for cutting material that you did not want to pierce with the spear pint blade, and the spear point blade is for normal knife use.

They were designed for the old ceramic insulated 2 wire systems, not as relevant now but still a top quality tool.

I put Klein right up there with the current SK Wayne, hard to beat.

The Man

[Brewcrafter]

Thanks for the explanation Ron, I was trying to figure out looking at the photo how it worked! . john

[Ron Jones]

Your welcome, John

Greg, I am almost certain that isn't stainless steel. You can get that bit of corrosion to go away, but it won't go "shiney" without a lot of needless work.

The Man

[Brewcrafter]

They were designed for the old ceramic insulated 2 wire systems, not as relevant now but still a top quality tool.



The Man
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And I totally know what Ron is talking about when he says "ceramic wiring".  First house I shared with my wife was built in the 20's (the 1920's, that is - not today) and had what was also called "tube and post".  For you youngsters, think bare wires running through your walls and attic but whenever they are anchored (ceramic post nailed into something) or go through a structural member (ceramic tube going through a 2x4) you have ceramics as an insulator.  Circuit breakers?  What are those?  That old house had screw in fuses (we kept a box in the kitchen).  And NO, I never used a penny to bypass them! - john