1880s woodworkers tool chest time capsule tool haul 😀👍⚒️ Part one

This is an amazing time capsule Of a 19 century carpenter showing you what is inside the box plus the opportunity to guess the price

[bryancunningham]

The steel block with the 1/2" hole and other holes is for making your own wood dowels, if someone else already mentioned this in comments sorry.

[recyclerman]

Wow.. Just love these vintage tool boxes.. True Awesomeness.. Got to be my favourite hauls you do

[paulmaryon]

What a lovely find, as a restorer I still use many of the tools in there, enjoyed your video, thank you

[NashRathbone]

This reminds me of my late fathers toolboxes, he made them himself back in the 1950s. Thanks for reminding of times past 👍

[Exiledk]

The steel block with all the holes is not a drilling guide... it's a dowel maker. Hammer a peg trough the apprpriate hole to make a dowel to whatever dimension you require.

[audreysutube]

Wow, that’s a lot of wonderful tools. The quality is incredible! Awesome haul.

[ianelley]

For me mate you've hit the jackpot !!!! Love these tool boxes and tools !!!! What a find !!!! I'm green with envy !! lol . Just in case you haven't found out yet (and I'm sure you have by now) that hand made bit of treen looks like a dovetail gauge for measuring pitch depending on what wood you want to use, if I remember 1 in 6 inches for softwoods and 1 in 8 inches for hard woods just as a general rule. Judging by the quality of the tools I bet the planes were interesting too ?? I've never seen those Rabone rules either, really nice !!!!

[daviddibella]

I don’t know how you are able to find awesome tools. My favorite are the folding rulers.

[jeffreyduke]

Wow! I need friends like you and your friends that can find these great historical superior gems!

[trevorwallace]

The corkscrew jobbies are gimlets for drilling holes in wood 🤓

[essentialhandyman]

Wow Ben, so many amazing tools.

Those two wooden rulers with levels are fab.

I think the wooden specialised tool might be a dovetail ratio marker.

The steel block is a dowel maker. You hammer timber in and it cuts it down to the size of dowel you need.

[samsingh]

I can appreciate what you do, really these tools are amazing, they have seen work which some craftsmen will never see, they have built so of englands most iconic places, unbelievable the life of an old tool, absolutely beautiful, i would love a toolbox like that

[martinrasmussen]

The steel bar with the holes in it, is for making dowels (sorry English is not my first language)

[spencereagle]

The steel block with the holes in is a dowel plate. You take near size square stock and knock it through the plate to make doweling.

[brianmcguire]

The “drilling guid” is a dowel cutter I believe.

[roybailey]

That's a Rabone box wood rule made in Birmingham, not Rafbone lol and the little Brad awe has a box wood handle , nice little Collection there

[brianmcguire]

Wow just wow.... amazing. That whole chest in the states would be over $1, 000 at least.

[penndino]

My favourite haul yet!! More my thing that chest. In fact just bought one similar from Blackpool which I think would be not far from you Ben?!! Plenty of restoration bits there!

[coldwoodcowboy]

Wow! So awesome.

The “corkscrew” things are possibly gimlets. And you’re correct about the slotted bit. It fits a Yankee style screwdriver.

How much for the plane? haha

[BobBlarneystone]

The block with holes is for cutting dowels.