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Napanoch Tool Kit Post #2

So this is the second post in the Napanoch Tool Kit Series. Just too much for one post.

The knife holds the blade securely while also having the area to add the tools (one at a time) at the opposite end from the blade.

It works best to have the blade closed when you do this !!!

So you start with the knife tang that has the NAPANOCH over KNIFE CO> stamping face up. The opposite tang is the one that has PAT. APPLIED FOR stamped into it. If you try to secure the tool with that tang facing up it's like everything is backwards or upside down.

Each tool has the same end cut into the steel kind of like a key, with cut-out areas that fit into the end of the knife. You start with the tool at about a quarter stop with the tool end facing your hand. Then you rotate the tool back toward the end of the bolster and --click!!--it snaps right into place. Then tyou can rotate it fully as you would the blade and you are ready for business.

That's enough, but this is one great little tool kit for sure.

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Comment by Lee Saunders on May 12, 2012 at 15:30: Rob i have seen a few of these sets since i started bidding on this one with differet tools and number of tools, so I think they were marketed to different needs. Things were so different then, tools etc so I can see them being used by tradesmen. This set is probably woodworking. My granddad was a box maker. Couldnt just go to UPS and buy a box, some guy had to make each one in 1900 and i could see him using this altough he had some heavier duty tools.

So the different sets could have been designed and marketed to tradesmen of the day. These could even be used now in like a garage setting or backpocket on a farm kinda thing.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on May 12, 2012 at 14:47: Lee, that is a real neat set up. Do you know if it's for a paticular type of tradesman, like a "carpentar or metal worker etc.". It would be his trades tools?