Saturday, February 2, 2013

EDC Pry Tool

I have been branching out a bit from the bottle openers when I have a chance and I made this 1/2" wide x 2 1/2" long key chain pry tool from O-1 tool steel. One end features a stout prying edge and the other end has one of the corners ground to be a standard screwdriver. This is a nice addition to the key ring to pry things, especially when you don't want to use your finger nails in -2 degree weather.








Western Camper Pocket Knife

I just picked this up recently and wanted to post it here. There aren't too many good pics on the internet of this particular knife, so I took a couple to post. This is a Camper pocket knife, that was made in Boulder, Colorado by Western Cutlery Company. Here is a 1975 Western Catalog I found online, it comes from the Collectors of Camillus.This catalog is hardly a catalog, but more of a book, very neat pictures of the factory and workers. Here is where you can find other Western catalogs.









Pictured on pg. 4 of the 1982 Western catalog #52


New Bottle Opener

Here is a new bottle opener pry tool that I just made a prototype of a few days ago. It is made from precision ground O-1 tool steel and measures 1/2" wide x 2 1/2" long and its 1/8" thick.