Junkyarddog

Thank you for the information you provided King's X. When I saw $50 a piece for the Beard tools I thought that was expensive, but I assume professional leather workers are like professional mechanics and the better tools last longer and work better. I looked through the horse shoe and chuck smith site and they both have some beautiful tools. There are actually 2 chuck smith and 1 black pro series cutting knives that came with the tools, so it looks like I am off to a good start to learn how to tool leather. I was planning on keeping the craftool stamps since there is such a variety of tools, but it looks like some of the tools I have might be hard to replace if I really get into this as a hobby. I can say after playing around with all of the tools, the Gore tools are my favorite. The Gore tools just feel better in my hand and work better with my large hands since they are quite a bit longer than the others. Maybe I will try the tools out for a while to see what I like and maybe sell the beard tools since they seem to have the higher value to help get other things I will need. edgers,hole punches, strap punches, round knives and that is just what I think I need so far. Well anyways thank you King's x

Last week I was at a local scrap yard looking for some steel for a project I was working on and a young man in his 20's was trying to sell a huge box of tools he inherited to the owner for scrap. The man said that some were marked stainless but the owner did not want them. From time to time I make sheaths and covers for my axes and knives and have thought about stamping some designs in the leather for decoration, so I was interested in what he had for sale. The guy wanted $100 for the stamps which did not seem like a bad deal, but I only had 70 bucks in cash, so we settled on 70 cash and the case russlock pocket knife I had on me. I took the tools to a guy I met a few times that does leatherwork and he offered me $250 for the set which I almost took, but something about the way he was looking at some of the tools made me decide to do some further research. I have found out quite a bit of information about the craftool stamps and barry king stamps, but not much about the others. I have decided to keep the tools marked craft tool co which there are about 85 of them and try my hand in stamping leather. I am thinking about selling the others to possibly pay for some other leather working tools and maybe picking up leather work as a hobby. If anyone could let me know if any of the stamps have any value.. I'm looking to either sale or trade the stamps for other leather working tools and leather to possibly make a rifle case and maybe some bags or pouches for hunting/trapping.. there are 85 craft tool co 12 robert beard (the black tools with gold lettering which look pretty cool) 19 gore tool 3 Cha Smith 8 Horse Shoe 7 Hack barth 10 Barry King Any help would be appreciated or if anyone is interested in the tools please let me know Also this website has already answered alot of my questions and seems to have tons of valuable information for someone new like myself, so thank you whoever stated this website.