Click the pic for more pics and info on this masterpiece created and used by H.O. Studley who was a turn of the 20th century piano maker and stonemason. And then read about it in this article from 1993.

Not quite like the tool kits sold at WalMart.




  1. soundwash says:

    Wow.. that’s is F’n Beautiful!!
    -stunning, even.

    given that it’s a mason’s tool set, the quality and fit must be obscene

    I would love to build a cabinet or table with those.

    Out-Fkn-Standing!

    me thinks we paid a too heavy a price for mass production.

    -s

  2. deowll says:

    The quality of most modern muscle powered hand tools stinks.

    Switching topics a tad. I don’t care how good your electronic keyboard is or your sound system is; it doesn’t sound like a piano. Of course if you’ve been wearing ear buds with the volume all the way up you’ll never notice the difference.

    Staying off topic; if I buy a CD/soundtrack and I’m buying something that is supposed to have a singer and the mixer decided to drown them out and give me an instrumental I may never buy anything by that singer again.

  3. Joe says:

    I think I saw that tool chest in the movie Seven.

  4. Mr. Fusion says:

    That tool set was made by a craftsman for a craftsman. Today real men only need two items in their tool box.

    If it moves and it shouldn’t you need duct tape. If it doesn’t move and it should you need WD-40.

  5. Glenn E. says:

    For a minute there, I thought it might be a Luddite’s notion of a wooden CPU. It kind of has a similar layout to most microprocessor designs I’ve seen in the past. This tool kit is more of a work of art, than a practical thing. I’m sure many a craftsmen just got by with something simpler and less organized. And as soon as they start buying newer tools of a different size and shape. They’d no longer fit in this case. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me if most of these tools were custom made.



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