Amazing, Stephen Wright has duplicated the Studley tool chest in wood... that is an amazing tribute to a masterpiece

I came across this at the San Diego County Fair,... in the wood wood working display area, I had never even heard of before... wow, lots of great stuff there!
I posted the Studley tool chest a couple times before below: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/look-at-tools-cause-without-them.html is it posted with a couple other incredible tool collections, but now I've just found the video posted below

In July 1988, the back cover of Fine Woodworking magazine featured an awe-inspiring unrivaled object: the vintage 19th-century tool chest of Massachusetts master carpenter piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company.

For every tool, Studley fashioned a holder to keep it in place and to showcase it. Miniature wrenches, handmade saws, and some still unidentified piano-making tools each have intricate inlaid holders. Tiny clasps rotate out of the way so a tool can be removed. In places the clearances are so tight that the tools nearly touch.

The chest lived on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using scraps from piano making ebony, mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany -- all materials used in the manufacture of pianos -- he refined the chest to the point that now, more than 80 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.

the most incredible thing is that even though to se it open is amazing, you don't realize how much more is in store until you see on the video that what is on the surface are just racks, ans they hinge up to expose another layer below! See it on this video



Studley was well into his 80s when he retired from the piano company. Before he died in 1925, Studley gave the tool chest to a friend. That man's grandson, Peter Hardwick, loaned the chest to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s and later sold it to a private collector

extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr, excellent site, part 2

Ain't that the cutest thing you've seen today?

1950 Nash dealership

Navy Shore Patrol helping a fellow sailor into a Medical Department ambulance





I think this is the earliest american flag tank I've seen, and it looks great on this bike








a Ford dealership in 1932

Ozark mountineer burro train ride (can't read the last word)
The Rebel Gal crew and the partially completed nose art that shows how one artist made the painting the right scale
see more at http://21studs.tumblr.com/

the Model A Ford complete factory provided tool kit

Vic Edelbrock Sr.'s tool bench, tool box (Kennedy) and tools (Plvmb)

I point out the Plvmb (pronounced plumb) tools because they are very high quality Los Angeles made from before 1947, after that they had to change the company name to prevent copywrite problems and are now made in the name Proto tools (PROfessional TOols) http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/professional-tools-which-were-plvmb.html

This display is part of the Edelbrock facility in Torrence, I was there for the annual Revved up For Kids charity car show the Edelbrocks put on every year. Inside the building is Vic's Garage where the cars from the 40+ years of Vic Edelbrock Jr company, publicity, research, and personal cars are on display, and I'll have them posted shortly. One of them is a 1969 440 6 Pack Super Bee

The wrench table, thanks to Jeremy at Blog1aauto

for more about it http://blog.1aauto.com/2011/05/04/the-greatest-table-ever-made

great stuff found on ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com

check out the coolest futuristic designer ( he did the new Tron vehicles ) http://www.danielsimon.net/artdata/mopped/mopped.html

In the case that you don't click on the above for he full size version to read what it says, it is Acme fix it service

all this and more at http://ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com

Holy S*** ! , tool innovations from firefighters, for firefighters. This rocks! Sharing great ideas for the benefit of all

Damn, this ought to be framed art (minus the extra set of earplugs)

Check out all the bitchin tools, modified, improvised, and uses you never thought of for common stuff, but firefighters have found work really good for propping open doors,keeping things in place, and misc simple things that have been proven to help in emergencies
http://www.vententersearch.com/pockets.htm

Thanks to
http://lostliver.blogspot.com/ for the discovery!

The Deep

cool rat rods at El Cajon's season opener car cruise, the Frankenstein from Rickybobbyrodshop, and a former British Taxi

this one is from http://www.socal-suspension.com/ a local El Cajon busniess, and the saw blades on the front airbags are a cool touch

Here's the image of what it started life as... and for a good article on London Taxis showing up at car shows: http://www.classicaldrives.com/50226711/londons_iconic_taxicabs_spotted_in_classic_car_shows.php

The shifter is particularly cool, looks like a 3 or 4 foot long socket wrench extension with a 1 1/2" short impact socket. That is somethign I don't remember seeing used as a shifter in a rat rod or custom before... my compliments!

For a full gallery of the Frankenstein rat rod made by Rickybobbysrodshop:

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/garrett-and-sons-rod-shop-rat-rod-i-dig.html