What's the oldest tool you have that you still use?

 

My anvil is over 130 years but I am sure there are others with older tools still in use.

I have a postvise that Frank Turley said was probably pre 1800 and a steeled hammer head I dug out from under a scrap pile in england that's probably is 200+ years old. My earliest hard dated tool is an 1828 William Foster anvil.

 

I do tend to not let new students use the oldest tools though as they are not as stout as the stuff only 100 years old...

Funny thing my oldest tools are some of the cheapest I have bought.

I have a anvil with a 5th foot that is probably the oldest thing i use... next oldest is my finnigan and mgowan  power hammer it was built between 1903 and 1907...

i have a 1922 i believe Söderfors, but yesterday i picked up a fuller that seems to me to be hand made and no markings on it but i think it's pretty old

but in the museum here there supposedly is a 900 year old anvil, i'll try to get some pictures of it if i remember to next time im there

My Modern power hammer was made in 1905, the 25lb Little Giant in 1925.

I've got a 30# Fisher with an 1886 date on it, it's my bench anvil.  I've got a pretty big (8") post vice that's all wrought, but it's got no marks on it.  All of my machine tools. mill, surface grinder, and lathe are all '30's.

 

Geoff

I've got a Peter Wright anvil and three Peter Wright vises, probably all about the same age, but I don't know the exact age.

Pretty sure my Fisher says 1870. 

My fly press is a little older.

Have a foot vice and floor shear about the same age. 

Oldest tool is a very small drill press from just after Civil War.