Looks like a lot of these items are cast, but looks like a lot of hand work, too.

http://heinztools.com/index.html

I wish he had more information about his processes. The antique ones are interesting, too!

It may awaken your creativity any way.

Cool stuff. I'd like one of those cute little hammers for tapping off the tops of my boiled eggs at breakfast...... B)

great tools if you made a top and bottom die maybe you could press a few Randy

OH MY GOODNESS!!! need more time to look at these!!!!! wowzers LOVE the animal hammers - beautiful - heartbreakinhg! - such detail on those planes - and ALSO did you check out that draw of screwdrivers! i love whoever is behind this work that you'd choose to do that, its wonderful.... yes a lot must be cast, but not all, the tiny detailed stamp marks on some, like littel yin yangs and hearts . absolutely love them. like i said - i need time to look through again when the kids arent wanting attention...

where did you find this stuff???

Your cool avatar has vanished Beth.....sigh.....Are your knuckles in or out on the new one?....lol

macbruce - its not me :0 BUT... if it were, it would depend who was asking :)

Lovely tools there.
Who says tools need to be boring.

Who says tools need to be boring.

not Tim Miller

modern machine processes say that tools need to be boring. im sure if someone stole one of those he wouldnt be too hard to track down! one of the great sides of tool decoration and personalisation!

Even if many of them are cast, the patterns took plenty of time and skill to prepare. Beautiful stuff.

Looks like most of them are cast, some are carved from wood and some frabricated from sheet brass. I looked at some of the antique tools and some of them are cast iron. I wish that I could remember his name but there used to be an old smith in Oklahoma that made critter hammers and other tooling, he also thought that there was no reason to leave your tools just plain and utilitarian when they could have charicter. He would put all kind of funny and cute faces on his stuff. It has to have been thirty or more years ago that I met him and it was in a small town to the southeast of Oklahoma City. He was in his late sixties when I met him. I wonder whatever happened to all his tools.